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May 2024

02-05-2024
How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles

How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles

Source: gagor.pro

First contact with make When I was invited for my first job interview in the IT, I’ve been asked such question: How would you typically build a program from sources, what commands will you use? I answered: It’s obvious: ./configure make make install Those times belong to the past now and nowadays not many programmers use GNU Make1. Try asking this question and you will see disgust at best. For many it’s the fist contact with make and often the last one, but not for me 😉

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Great reminders on how and why to use the ancient and ubiquitous “make” tool.

Tags: how-to make linux tool

April 2024

28-04-2024
Best Practices for Working with Large Language Models

Best Practices for Working with Large Language Models

Source: thenewstack.io

Generative AI has revolutionized programming. Based on his own experience, Jon Udell codifies how to partner effectively with LLM assistants.

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We’re all doing it now, right? Using LLMs for all kinds of things? Well here are some useful rules of thumb. By the way, as far as employing a team of assistants, take a look at Poe.com. It’s a single front end to all (almost all) the LLMs out there. And in fact it bakes in the question of what would the other LLMs say to the same prompt.

A brave new world!

Tags: llm rules-of-thumb rubber-ducking verify learn
26-04-2024
Grading for Growth

Grading for Growth

Source: gradingforgrowth.com

Research and ideas about reforming grading practices in higher education and beyond. Click to read Grading for Growth, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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This article lays out many of the things that worry and bother me about the way we teach, assess and grade.

Tags: teaching grading ungrading math higher-education
24-04-2024
Great Tables GT package

Great Tables GT package

Source: posit-dev.github.io

Great Tables GT package URL: https://posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/get-started/ Type: link Domain: posit-dev.github.io Notes: Extremely useful package for creating pretty tables for display and publication. Just look at the examples!

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Extremely useful package for creating pretty tables for display and publication. Just look at the examples!

Tags: python package cool-tools table display beautiful
24-04-2024
Software Needs To Be More Expensive

Software Needs To Be More Expensive

Source: blog.glyph.im

Software, like coffee, is too artificially cheap, and we need to make it more expensive. I have one suggestion for how to do that.

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I agree with the high level argument. The open source situation does need a solution. But in general, we need to find ways to pay software developers more for the work they put into writing software. Wait! What do I mean? We have trained the world to expect to pay $0 for software that took huge numbers of person months to create. $4.90 is expensive! I know this is how the market weeds out useless products. But lots of useful ones need to fight this too. Try-before-you buy should remove the risk factor. But once you adopt an app and use it regularly then be willing to pay a serious amount for a serious app. People just don't have a sense of how much time and effort it takes to create even something as simple as an exellent solitaire game.

Tags: cost software pricing try-before-you-buy software-engineering
20-04-2024

So your teacher wants you to do open source

Source: davidism.com

If your teacher (or tutorial/video/hackathon/etc) says "go do X in an open source project" and then sends you off unsupervised, they haven't adequately prepa...

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Teachers, like me, might think it’s a good idea to suggest that students do a quick open source contribution. This article explains why that might be doing harm to the project’s.

Tags: assignment homework opensource
20-04-2024
Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python – Real Python

Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python – Real Python

Source: realpython.com

Discover the power of Pydantic, Python's most popular data parsing, validation, and serialization library. In this hands-on tutorial, you'll learn how to make your code more robust, trustworthy, and easier to debug with Pydantic.

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Excellent introduction and overview of one of the most used python packages: Pydantic.

Tags: python data data-validation cool-tools pydantic python-package
15-04-2024
Kamal: hot deployment tool to watch—or a total game changer?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Kamal: hot deployment tool to watch—or a total game changer?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Source: evilmartians.com

The SRE pros at Evil Martians attempt an objective analysis of the promises, applications, and potential of Kamal (formerly known as MRSK), plus things to watch out for.

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An excellent review and investigation of the new hotness in cloud deployment, Kamal. Alternative to K8S and k3s, supposedly much simpler.

Tags: cloud tool review kamal deploy
15-04-2024
Designing a Pure Python Web Framework · Reflex Blog

Designing a Pure Python Web Framework · Reflex Blog

Source: reflex.dev

Designing a Pure Python Web Framework · Reflex Blog URL: https://reflex.dev/blog/2024-03-21-reflex-architecture/ Type: article Domain: reflex.dev Notes: Another web app stack written in pure python. Claim to fame seems to be that it compiles pure python into a react front and and a FastAPI back end. Programmer does not need to know JavaScript, html, css etc. Which is nice. But for me personally it’s not the kind of structure I would want. But still worth a look I think!

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Another web app stack written in pure python. Claim to fame seems to be that it compiles pure python into a react front and and a FastAPI back end. Programmer does not need to know JavaScript, html, css etc. Which is nice. But for me personally it’s not the kind of structure I would want. But still worth a look I think!

Tags: python web fastapi pure-python
14-04-2024
Introduction | Foxglove | Docs

Introduction | Foxglove | Docs

Source: docs.foxglove.dev

Foxglove helps teams explore, collaborate on, and ultimately make sense of their data more efficiently.

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I have seen this demoed. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks great. In summary (I think) it is an RVIZ++ but that runs in a web browser. So, you can for example access it from an iPad or a non-Linux computer. Looks very useful.

Tags: ros ros1 ros2 rviz web data cool-tools visualize
14-04-2024
About Articulated Robotics.

About Articulated Robotics.

Source: articulatedrobotics.xyz

Mini lessons in robotics

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I just came across this set of tutorials and ROS1 and 2 tutorials. From a sample of a few I can say that they are really excellent!

Tags: ros ros1 ros2 how-to cool-tools hot best-bet tutorial robotics
12-04-2024
Introduction to robotics | Robot Academy

Introduction to robotics | Robot Academy

Source: robotacademy.net.au

Introduction to robotics | Robot Academy URL: https://robotacademy.net.au/masterclass/introduction-to-robotics/?lesson=206 Type: link Domain: robotacademy.net.au Notes: A super extensive resource for robotics, software, hardware, algorithms, theory and practice

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A super extensive resource for robotics, software, hardware, algorithms, theory and practice

Tags: robotics resource library content-collection education
12-04-2024
Robotics Academy

Robotics Academy

Source: jderobot.github.io

A practical and fun way of learning Robotics and Computer Vision

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A resource for Robotics Education.

Tags: ros robotics-academy software robotics robot robot-kit computer-vision robots
12-04-2024
Asimovo Home - Asimovo

Asimovo Home - Asimovo

Source: asimovo.com

Smarter Robotics Collaborate / Simulate / Accelerate RoboDevOps platform to accelerate your development and adoption Get Started Connecting robotics teams to resources We are on a mission to accelerate the development and introduction of smarter robots into everyday life. Our platform empowers iterative development and collaboration helping you accelerate your development process and team performance: Use

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Another online Robotics Development Enviorment for your collection!

Tags: robotics ide development-environment cloud cloud-based ubiquity-robotics