Cloudflare now offers a simple setting to block AI bots from scraping your website, available even on free plans.
Analysis of Pluralsight's financial struggles after its leveraged buyout by Vista Equity Partners, critiquing private equity's impact on tech companies.
An engineer argues for the value of 'low-tech' developer tools like Vim, emphasizing their portability, speed, and alignment with Unix principles.
A detailed comparison of Anthropic's Claude 3 and the newer Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models, covering performance, capabilities, and benchmarks.
A comparison of serverless computing and containers, outlining their benefits and ideal use cases for application deployment.
Compares performance of TypeScript's `private` properties vs JavaScript's `#` private fields, concluding there's no practical difference.
A beginner's guide to HTML, covering what it is, the tools needed, and a step-by-step tutorial to create your first web page.
A guide on customizing the VS Code cursor with a linear gradient color using an extension and CSS.
A critical analysis of business architecture's role in enterprise IT, questioning its practical value and the attitudes of its proponents.
Explores Java's current and future capabilities in AI/ML development, challenging the notion that Java is unsuitable for AI tasks.
Podcast episode discussing learning Blender for game asset creation and the importance of multi-device testing for app/game performance.
A summary of the July 2024 Surrey Azure User-Group meeting, featuring talks on PowerBI mapping with Azure/ArcGIS and GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted coding.
A series introducing the basics of various IT technologies like HTML, Markdown, Git, and PowerShell with quick-start guides.
A developer discusses the deprecation of Unsplash Source, a service for embedding random photos, and explores potential alternatives.
A PHP developer reflects on leaving Twitter, realizing it's a vocal minority and not essential for staying relevant in the PHP community.
A guide to customizing your terminal shell prompt to display Git branch and status information using git-prompt.sh under Nix/Linux.
A hands-on review of GitHub Copilot Workspace, a new AI-powered web environment for software design and development, based on initial testing.
Applying API/UI design principles to education, arguing for immediate engagement over delayed theory to improve knowledge transfer.
Announcing skrub 0.2.0, a library update simplifying machine learning on complex dataframes with new features like tabular_learner.
Introduces vidir, a tool from moreutils that allows batch renaming and deleting files by editing a list in Vim.
