Discusses strategies for continual pretraining of LLMs and evaluating reward models for RLHF, based on recent research papers.
How a company's 'Demo Friday' culture fosters collaboration, peer recognition, and deep technical learning across hardware and software teams.
A guide to effective and ineffective evaluation methods for LLMs on tasks like classification, summarization, and translation, including practical metrics.
A summary of new features and updates for Azure WebApps in March 2024, focusing on the GA release of Automatic Scaling for Premium-tier apps.
A quick guide to creating a 'minimum full height' layout using Tailwind CSS, explaining the key classes and markup structure.
A podcast episode discussing WWDC 24, developer challenges in the EU, and bugs in Xcode 15, with hopes for a more stable release.
A developer shares their experience porting a Unity game to Unreal Engine, focusing on the benefits and learning curve of using Blueprints for visual coding.
A developer shares a simple Makefile script to automate git commits with timestamps, improving version control habits during side projects.
An update on vdirsyncer's sync algorithm improvements, including status handling, error categorization, and auto-creation of collections.
Author discusses writing a technical article on using Alembic for database migrations in Python, published on TestDriven.io.
JDK 20-23 updates for Unicode CLDR Version 42, covering locale data changes and parsing enhancements for date/time strings.
The creator reflects on five years of running component.gallery, a design system showcase, sharing stats, visitor insights, and future plans.
Using GitHub Actions to automate parsing Azure sustainability PDFs into a public JSON file for programmatic use.
Explores SObjectizer's runtime telemetry feature for monitoring actor model applications in C++, covering setup and practical usage.
Announces the addition of 6 new R programming books to the Big Book of R collection, covering statistics, machine learning, and data science.
A guide to customizing the default file header comment for new Swift files created within a Swift Package, using an IDETemplateMacros.plist file.
Explains how to use Azure Logic Apps' built-in input/output obfuscation to secure data in operational logging and how to validate the settings.
Explains why Microsoft certifications show as expired in Credly and how to update your professional profiles to use Microsoft Learn instead.
A survey of how distributed databases handle secondary indexes, comparing strategies in DynamoDB, MongoDB, Yugabyte, and others.
The latest episode of Building SaaS covers post-launch improvements and user experience polishing for the JourneyInbox application.
