Dec 05, 2024 from Changelog A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe We’re kicking off 2025 with some big changes. Starting in January, we’ll be focusing all of our efforts on producing The Changelog (News, Interviews, Friends) as the single best developer podcast e...
Dec 04, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili Build a search engine, not a vector DB If you want to make a good RAG tool that uses your documentation, you should start by making a search engine over those documents that would be good enough for a human to use themselves. This is ex...
Dec 03, 2024 from Londogard Blog Data Loading - Comparing Common Tooling This blog was supposed to be more in-depth but my enthusiasm was drastically cut and I felt like splitting it up into multiple smaller one, whereas daft one is already uploaded. I started writing a...
Dec 02, 2024 from Coding Horror The Great Filter Comes For Us All With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don’t stop there – read the Stor...
Dec 02, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home My workouts Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I'm soliciting.
Dec 01, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home A clarification on Google Page Annotations Reply to google’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read this by solarbird I agree wholeheartedly with Google’s Page Annotations being an absolutely awful antifeature, and recommend that others ...
Dec 01, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili Access Google Gemini LLM via OpenAI Python Library Google Gemini now can be accessed via OpenAI python library: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY", base_url="https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/"...
Nov 30, 2024 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog Hyperscalers are not serious about Service Level Agreements (SLA) I often talk with people about Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in public cloud contexts, and I discover that their idea of what those SLAs are is often distorted. I believe SLAs need to be approach...
Nov 29, 2024 from Julia Evans Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command to watch for some specific output in a...
Nov 29, 2024 from ~hedy Removing comments on my posts A few years ago I had a wonderful idea. Arguably the best system I could think of for comments for my blog: a mailing list. Here’s how it worked. I had set up a mailing list on lists.sr.ht, which a...
Nov 28, 2024 from ~gallant Whither poetry? I have a soft spot for poetry. That is what poems are for - sentimental musings and meditative cogitation. These are perennial features of humanity, and well worth the time. As we find ourselves in...
Nov 28, 2024 from ~hedy Webmentions Webmention is a system in which other websites can notify you that when their site has mentioned a page on your site. It originated from the IndieWeb and is now a W3C Recommendation. To receive Web...
Nov 26, 2024 from briancmoses.com DIY NAS: 2025 Edition A diminuitive, TrueNAS SCALE machine featuring: 92TB of storage (90TB of HDD, 2TB of SSD), an Intel N100 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 10Gbps networking for under $2,300.
Nov 26, 2024 from Boris Tane Observing Serverless Applications Best practices for observing serverless applications
Nov 25, 2024 from ~hedy Hugo shortcodes in Lume Recently, I’ve been looking at Lume, a new-ish static-site generator that runs on Deno as a possible replacement for Hugo on my site. I decided to give it a try when starting a new project, the sta...
Nov 23, 2024 from fasterthanli.me Highlighted code in slides I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it’s only fair I (and you!) get some content out of it. When I started writing this article, I was working on my P99 CONF slides. Those slides happen...
Nov 21, 2024 from Ryan Bagley It Doesn't Matter if Baltic Submarine Cable Cuts Were Sabotage Map of the C-Lion1 Submarine Cable path from Finland to Germany. Source: TeleGeography. The recent severing of submarine cables in the Baltic Sea has brought to the forefront the critical vulnerabi...
Nov 21, 2024 from SIGPLAN Blog Evaluating Human Factors Beyond Lines of Code Software systems researchers want to make human-centered claims, but don't have the proper tools to do so. That's how we ended up with the ubiquitous lines-of-code comparison found in evaluation se...
Nov 20, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home Your keystroke biometrics are everywhere Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprintable typing behavior. The industry refers to this information as “keystroke dyn...
Nov 19, 2024 from Alejandro AR (kinduff) Power to the power users How the creative uses of data structures by power users are transforming and inspiring new features in my product
