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March 2025

11-03-2025

What’s The Deal With Ractors?

Source: byroot.github.io

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.

Notes:

Linked is a good explanation of Ruby ractors, and a reminder that they still exist!

Tags: concurrency explainer ractor ruby scaling performance software-engineering

February 2025

17-02-2025
Product Development Processes You Might Not have Heard of - Department of Product

Product Development Processes You Might Not have Heard of - Department of Product

Source: departmentofproduct.com

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.

Notes:

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.

Tags: agile kanban scrum development

January 2025

27-01-2025

AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers

Source: nmn.gl

A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help. After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t hyperbole—this is the new reality for software developers.

Notes:

Linked article talks about something I’ve been thinking about. I’ve experienced it myself but not programming. When I delved into an area that the LLM didn’t know as well, it started giving me incorrect hallucinated answers. I went back to regular searches and posting on specific forums!

Tags: chatgpt ai coding llm learning
26-01-2025
cmdalias: Multi word alias

cmdalias: Multi word alias

Source: github.com

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

Notes:

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

Tags: cli bash tricks alias
26-01-2025
Database Sharding Explained

Database Sharding Explained

Source: architecturenotes.co

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

Notes:

Linked is a modern explanation of sharding and other approaches to dealing with scaling db backends.

Tags: database sharding explainer software-engineering
23-01-2025
BrowserAI: Run local LLMs inside your browser

BrowserAI: Run local LLMs inside your browser

Source: github.com

Run local LLMs inside your browser. Contribute to sauravpanda/BrowserAI development by creating an account on GitHub.

Notes:

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”.

Tags: llm javascript web local
22-01-2025
Atuin - Magical Shell History

Atuin - Magical Shell History

Source: atuin.sh

Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin

Notes:

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.

Tags: cli command history linux tool shell
22-01-2025
Python tools for data visualization — PyViz 0.0.1 documentation

Python tools for data visualization — PyViz 0.0.1 documentation

Source: pyviz.org

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.

Notes:

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!

Tags: cool-tools graphs visualization python library
19-01-2025
Glicol

Glicol

Source: glicol.org

Music programming in the browser

Notes:

Linked is a tool for writing electronic sounding music 5hrough a cryptic language, right in the browser. It reminds me of SonicPi except with a far worse syntax. But it runs in the browser which is pretty cool!

Tags: music composing electronic-music audio
18-01-2025
A Gentle Introduction to SQL Queries

A Gentle Introduction to SQL Queries

Source: sohamkamani.com

In this tutorial we will learn about the concepts behind the SQL syntax. We will go through the basics of how to use the FROM and WHERE clauses, and move on to more advanced topics like joins, aggregations and subqueries.
If you’re anything like me, SQL is one of those things that may look easy at first (it reads just like regular english!), but for some reason you can’t help but google the correct syntax for almost every query.

Notes:

Linked is a handy little SQL tutorial and guide.

Tags: database sql how-to software-engineering
18-01-2025
Company Logo API

Company Logo API

Source: clearbit.com

Clearbit's free Logo API is still available here in 2021 — and still completely
free.

We never found anything that catered well to company logos. And yet there's a
lot of clear use-cases ranging from setting an organization's default image on
signup to pulling in logos next to job listings.

Clearbit Logo API
The API is incredibly simple, taking a company's domain and returning an image.

GET https://logo.clearbit.com/:domain

Behind the scenes we're using Clearbit's Company API
[https://clear

Notes:

Linked is a service that returns the logo for any domain name. I tried it on salas.com and it worked great!

Tags: software-engineering api cool-tools logo lookup rest-api
18-01-2025
Brooks 1986 no silver bullet

Brooks 1986 no silver bullet

Source: worrydream.com

Brooks 1986 no silver bullet URL: https://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1986_-_No_Silver_Bullet.pdf Type: document Domain: worrydream.com Notes: Linked is one of the most classic Software Engineering papers from 1000 years ago!

Notes:

Linked is one of the most classic Software Engineering papers from 1000 years ago!

Tags: classic-paper engineering software-engineering
18-01-2025
Programming Languages That Blew My Mind

Programming Languages That Blew My Mind

Source: yoric.github.io

I’ve been a programmer since the age of 8, and some kind of developer for most of my life. Throughout my life as a coder, both hobbyist and professional, I’ve learnt plenty of programming languages that felt like cookie-cutter clones of each other, but also a few programming languages that changed the way I looked at programming, sometimes even at thinking.

Notes:

Linked is a cool review of esoteric (some) programming language that you (might) have never heard of

Tags: programming programming-language review
15-01-2025
gpiozero — gpiozero 2.0.1 Documentation

gpiozero — gpiozero 2.0.1 Documentation

Source: gpiozero.readthedocs.io

gpiozero — gpiozero 2.0.1 Documentation URL: https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html Type: article Domain: gpiozero.readthedocs.io Notes: Linked is a very useful library of code for writing programs on microcontrollers such as arduino and esp32. Just really handy stuff that you would know how to write... but why bother?

Notes:

Linked is a very useful library of code for writing programs on microcontrollers such as arduino and esp32. Just really handy stuff that you would know how to write... but why bother?

Tags: arduino esp32 code cool-tools
15-01-2025
Ideogram

Ideogram

Source: ideogram.ai

Ideogram URL: https://ideogram.ai/t/my-images Type: link Domain: ideogram.ai Notes: Linked is (one of many I am sure) tool that creates pretty amazing images from prompts. And there's a pretty capable free tier!

Notes:

Linked is (one of many I am sure) tool that creates pretty amazing images from prompts. And there's a pretty capable free tier!

Tags: cool-tools graphics images artificial-intelligence