What’s The Deal With Ractors?
Link: What’s The Deal With Ractors?: "I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is like it is, and how I see its future. But before I can get to that, I think I need to share my mental model on a few things, in this case, Ractors."
Linked is a good explanation of Ruby ractors, and a reminder that they still exist!
Product Development Processes You Might Not have Heard of - Department of Product
Link: Product Development Processes You Might Not have Heard of - Department of Product: "What are the alternatives to scrum and kanban you ask? Here’s 3 different product development processes that modern product teams are using that you may very well have never heard of."
Linked is an interesting review of different development processes and methodology. Beyond the well known two or three they discuss some options that have been very successful.
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
Link: How I use LLMs as a staff engineer: "What I use them for and what I don't"
Linked is a pretty good summary of ways to use “ai” in as a software engineer.
Using uv as your shebang line
Link: Using uv as your shebang line: "An article by Rob Allen"
Linked is a useful little tip for if you are considering adopting UV.
Database Sharding Explained
Link: Database Sharding Explained: "More features, active users, and data are collected daily. Your database is slowing your application. Many people don't understand database sharding, which could solve their difficulties. This article explains database sharding, its benefits, including ho"
Linked is a modern explanation of sharding and other approaches to dealing with scaling db backends.
cmdalias: Multi word alias
Link: cmdalias: Multi word alias: "Just a small tool to help me (and you but without any guaranty) to create command alias and sub-aliases (multi word alias) - adoy/cmdalias"
Linked is not a recommendation - as I have not tried it. But I've been typing lots of repetitive commands the last few days and I got to thinking that having a way to have aliases which were more than a single word would make them easier to remember and more flexible. This is one that I found
BrowserAI: Run local LLMs inside your browser
Link: BrowserAI: Run local LLMs inside your browser: "Run local LLMs inside your browser. Contribute to sauravpanda/BrowserAI development by creating an account on GitHub."
This could be important. Linked is a tool that allows you to run an LLM locally in your browser. Why is that interesting? After all you can already run it locally, just on your laptop. I think, if this thing works, one can provide LLM features as part of a SaS app, while guaranteeing your users that their information is staying with them and not going into “the cloud”.
Atuin - Magical Shell History
Link: Atuin - Magical Shell History: "Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin"
Linked is a linux-friendly command history editor. I needed one and I grabbed the first one I saw. But I am feeling like it's too heavy weight.
Python tools for data visualization — PyViz 0.0.1 documentation
Link: Python tools for data visualization — PyViz 0.0.1 documentation: "Welcome to PyViz! The PyViz.org website is an open platform for helping users decide on the best open-source (OSS) Python data visualization tools for their purposes, with links, overviews, comparisons, and examples."
Linked is a big ole catalog of all the different visualization tools, packages and frameworks in python. Handy resource if you are experiencing analysis paralysis!