How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math
Link: How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math: "I'm sure you agree that it has become impossible to ignore Generative AI (GenAI), as we are constantly bombarded with mainstream news about Large Language Models (LLMs). Very likely you have tried…"
Excellent overview with code. Can't say for sure that it is a true/accurate explanation or just a clever oversimplified analogy.
How To Code A Mac Game - Best Learning Tutorials - GameDev Academy
Link: How To Code A Mac Game - Best Learning Tutorials - GameDev Academy: "If you've ever dreamt of developing your own Mac game but haven't been sure where to start, you're in the right place. In this article, we're going to"
Trying to make coding a simple game more approachable.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics | GDPR-compliant, Real-time, Google Analytics alternative | Clicky
Link: Privacy-friendly Website Analytics | GDPR-compliant, Real-time, Google Analytics alternative | Clicky: "Clicky's privacy-friendly, real-time website analytics service is simply the best way to monitor, analyze, and react to your website's traffic in real time."
Very nice. and cheap alternative to google analytics. I mean, not exactly an alternative. I don't know all the features that GA has. But this tool is really lightweight, nice to look at, and it does a lot for free
The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal | Vanity Fair
Link: The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal | Vanity Fair: "To many in the tight-knit deep-sea exploration community, OceanGate’s submersible dives were reckless and often dangerous, writes best-selling author Susan Casey."
Do you remember this story. Here's a really interesting article about what might have happened.
What Does an A Really Mean?
Link: What Does an A Really Mean?: "We asked professors, students, and high-school counselors."
A very important question to think about. It's a little more abstract and high level than defining learning objectives. I found it an excellent exercise.
Deploy on Your Own Servers
Link: Deploy on Your Own Servers: "Fastest way to deploy a Rails app!"
Once Heroku got rid of their free tier, we all wanted alternatives. Doku is one of them. It lets you create your very own Heroku service on top of a cheap Digitial Ocean partition.
Twirp: Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers.
Link: Twirp: Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers.: "Make serving a Twirp RPC Services as easy and familiar as Rails controllers. - collectiveidea/twirp-rails"
Interesting GEM. Twirp is an RPC format and protocol from Twitch. Looks useful.
ankane/ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails
Link: ankane/ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails: "Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails. Contribute to ankane/ahoy development by creating an account on GitHub."
Remember this gem. It looks really useful for collecting stats from Rails based sites.
Generating fake data using SQL
Link: Generating fake data using SQL: "Fake data are very useful in development environment for testing your application or some query performances for example. In this Blog Post I’ll share how I ..."
Some fancy sql technique to create masses of fake data efficiently. Note: no Ruby or Python involved!
5 Practical SQL CTE Examples
Link: 5 Practical SQL CTE Examples: "In this article, we’ll go through several examples to see how SQL CTEs can help you with complex calculations and hierarchical data structures."
Just heard about CTE (Common Table Expressions). They are a feature of SQL. Not sure whether all SQLs or just Postgres. A way to refactor a complicated SQL statement into substagements.