A summary of key AI research papers from February 2024, focusing on new open-source LLMs, small fine-tuned models, and efficient fine-tuning techniques.
A personal experience report on preparing for and passing the Microsoft AI-900 Azure AI Fundamentals certification exam.
A robotics AI lead reflects on the field's future, discussing scaling robot autonomy with neural networks and parallels to large language models.
A personal reflection on the acquisition and uncertain future of CSS-Tricks, a popular web development blog, following its purchase by DigitalOcean.
Explains unexpected scaling behavior of UIFontMetrics and @ScaledMetric in iOS/iPadOS and provides a workaround for proportional UI scaling.
A technical tutorial on deploying a Windows Server virtual machine on Microsoft Azure using Terraform infrastructure-as-code.
A developer's personal journey through decades of code editors, from Notepad to VSCode, and why the choice of editor is so subjective.
A review of Superlist, a new cross-platform task management app focusing on flexible content creation, nesting, and organization.
A guide to using RxSwift and the Proxy pattern to refactor Apple Pay delegate methods for cleaner, more maintainable iOS architecture.
An open letter urging Apple to reverse its decision to kill Progressive Web App (PWA) support in Safari, calling it a regression for the web.
A guide to setting up a CI/CD pipeline for Angular projects using GitHub Actions for automated testing, building, and dependency updates.
Explains Oracle-specific SQL techniques for retrieving the top 1 row per group, covering KEEP syntax, ANY_VALUE(), and object/JSON workarounds.
Explores 10 reasons to adopt Apache Iceberg and Dremio for building a modern, flexible, and cost-effective data lakehouse architecture.
Explains the role, types, and selection criteria for catalogs in Apache Iceberg, a key component for managing data lakehouse tables.
A technical guide on fine-tuning Google's Gemma open LLMs using the ChatML format and Hugging Face's TRL library for efficient training on consumer GPUs.
A detailed account of a major mechanical failure in a VORON Trident 3D printer build, focusing on a worn POM nut and troubleshooting steps.
Explains how the Swift compiler uses a syntax check to automatically apply @MainActor isolation to closures passed to DispatchQueue.main.async.
Analysis of LLM wrapper libraries like LangChain and Guardrails, examining their hidden prompts and API call efficiency for structured JSON output.
The article explains the XY Problem, a common communication issue where someone asks about their attempted solution instead of their actual goal.
Part 2 of a tutorial on building a vehicle tracking app in Azure, focusing on creating a device simulator and provisioning with IoT Hub DPS.
