A developer's monthly digest covering tech books, industry commentary, AI debates, and personal reflections on walking and productivity.
A developer's yearly recap of projects including a self-published game, a personal ranking web app, and contributions to Advent of Code.
Explores a surprising C# compiler warning when using pattern matching with nullable properties, revealing edge cases in static analysis.
A technical walkthrough of preparing and analyzing the global Open Charge Map dataset for EV charging points using DuckDB and Python.
Explores methods to detect the on-screen keyboard in iOS Safari, focusing on viewport monitoring and input focus for PWAs.
A hands-on tutorial on building a data lakehouse pipeline using Spark, Dremio, and Superset to move and analyze data.
A data visualization expert details their participation in the #30DayChartChallenge, using DataWrapper to create interactive charts based on 'The Simpsons' data.
Explains the concept of 'symbolically nested' statistical models, their computational advantages, and their importance in survey analysis.
The author announces a change in the blog's content license from CC BY-SA 4.0 to the more permissive CC BY 4.0, citing a shift in perspective on licensing reciprocity.
VS Code includes a built-in Simple Browser, useful for demos and pair programming to reduce window switching.
A guide to using SwiftyMocky, a mocking framework for Swift, to simplify unit testing by creating mocks for dependencies.
Analysis of recent AI research papers on continued pretraining for LLMs and reward modeling for RLHF, with insights into model updates and alignment.
Discusses strategies for continual pretraining of LLMs and evaluating reward models for RLHF, based on recent research papers.
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.
How a company's 'Demo Friday' culture fosters collaboration, peer recognition, and deep technical learning across hardware and software teams.
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.
