A personal recap and notes from the Open Source North 2024 conference, covering talks on AI, automation, leadership, and developer practices.
A guide to packaging Scala applications into native executables using the jpackage tool from the JDK, addressing common pitfalls.
A talk from DjangoCon Europe 2024 exploring various ways to contribute to the Python and Django communities, aimed at both newcomers and existing members.
Explains how to use S3 method dispatch on arguments other than the first in R, using the survey package's svytotal function as an example.
Explores StringBuilder performance and memory usage for creating very large strings in C#, comparing it to using a List.
A developer shares his pre-coding routine for new app projects, including idea documentation, feature listing, and interface sketching.
A 1-hour presentation on the LLM development cycle, covering architecture, training, finetuning, and evaluation methods.
Analysis of new LLM research on instruction masking and LoRA finetuning methods, with practical insights for developers.
A 1-hour video presentation covering the full development cycle of Large Language Models, from architecture and pretraining to finetuning and evaluation.
Explores new research on instruction masking and LoRA finetuning techniques for improving large language models (LLMs).
A developer shares their experience migrating their Neovim configuration from lazy.nvim to the rocks.nvim package manager, discussing its benefits and drawbacks.
A retrospective on the 15-year journey of EqualsVerifier, a Java library for testing equals and hashCode methods, covering its evolution and community.
A monthly roundup of new features and updates for Microsoft Azure WebApps, including PHP 8.3 support, reservation changes, and preview features.
Analyzes how LLMs and AI are making technical interviews harder, leading to more complex coding questions and increased cheating, and proposes work sample tests as a better alternative.
A guide on using Microsoft's Phi-3 Small Language Model with C# and Semantic Kernel for local AI applications.
Analysis of Bitcoin spot ETFs' performance and growth in assets under management during their first 140 days after SEC approval.
Explains why you shouldn't disable React's exhaustive-deps lint rule and offers strategies to properly manage useEffect dependencies.
A software engineer shares practical tips for running low-effort, high-impact software book clubs, covering tools and strategies for in-person and email-based formats.
Announcing the release date for 'The CloudSec Engineer' book, a guide focused on cloud security engineering.
Explores Apache Iceberg's advanced partitioning features, including hidden partitioning and transformations, for optimizing query performance in data lakes.
