Just to prove that theres never the last word on anything, especially programmers editors. I thought history ended with vscode. But take a look st this, pretty tantilizing! Author says: “Code at the speed of thought. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.”

A nice list of so-called “dark patterns”, user interface techniques to manipulate or deceive the user into choosing a course of action which is disadvantageous to the user themselves. URL: https://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/01_Which-Retail-Websites-Have-the-Most-Dark-Patterns_Mini-IG.png?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Type: image Domain: dailyinfographic.com

ChatGPT Wrapper is an unofficial open source command-line interface and Python API for interacting with ChatGPT.

Non technical, but i love sketching and drawing to pass the time. Author says: “Practice drawing little houses and towers. Then level them up with dimensional views and clusters that create different styles of towns and cities…”

Interesting alternatives to so-called “dark patterns”. Author says: “Avoiding deception and building trust: the power of ethical revenue generation with transparent patterns.”

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Author says: “Every week now, it seems, events on the ground make a fresh mockery of those who confidently assert what AI will never be able to do, or won’t do for centuries if ever, or is incoherent even …”

Deciding what metrics to track and report to stakeholders. This article is common sense but very useful advice on how yo think about what metrics make sense to measure an engineering team.

An interesting walk down history lane… of computers

Zig is an up-and-coming systems-oriented language that could one day replace C. Here's what you need to know about Zig.

Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. We’ll teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more!

This is a nice writeup about power use of sqlite.

If you teach programming, this is a very insightful article. It doesnt solve anything though. From the author: “This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another.  It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses.The quality of the code I was reading was amazing!  My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers do.”

Great useful list of mental models, biases, techniques and tips to avoid being fooled

Author" "I have a terrible memory for names. In the past few years we have seen the meteoric appearance of dozens of models of the Transformer family, all of which have funny, but not self-explanatory, names. The goal of this post is to offer a short and simple catalog and classification of the most popular Transformer models. In other words, I needed a Transformers cheat-sheet and couldn’t find a good enough one online, so I thought I’d write my own. I hope it can be useful to you too"

Last week I published a story for The Washington Post that required an interactive slippy map. Lookup maps like this are a common pattern to show a geographic trend and let readers explore the data …

Fun Rails Esoterica. One of the features that new Rails people are amused and surprised by: "Rails come with a lot of initializers that we are not quite familiar with. One of them is the inflections initializer. In this post, we will look at what inflections.rb is and how we can use them."

This is a pretty amazing article. Even though it's "non technical" and I read all of it, I think I only understood about 75%: "Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax."

Implementing a GPT model from scratch in NumPy. This is a detailed article including python source code. Ive skimmed it and it does explain a lot. But even without my being a neural net, ai, machine learning, gpt, chatgpt expert, i think i would learn a lot. Also the article is very well written presented.

Learn how processes synchronize with each other in Linux.