Linked is an article about Zed, a new programmers editor, trying to take the place of vscode. I love articles like this because they follow the kind of crazed thought process that I often have: is there something better than what I am using now?

Linked is a neat article about sonic pi, a less known music synthesizer software. It is so cool and interesting even if you’re not a musician or composer. It builds a world of musical abstractions allowing you to make very interesting music. What is news from this article is that the whole thing is built on top of Ruby, as a DSL!

Linked is a subtle and really interesting article about static vs dynamic typing. I’ve been a fan of python type hints and annoyed with how Ruby, so far has approached the political pressure to have an answer. For the first time for me, this article articulates how type hints may be great for sample code or fairly simple real code, but can become a burden for “real” code. I’ve experienced this myself but did not realize what was going on. He also builds an interesting distinction between type checking and data validation. Maybe Ruby needs an equivalent to pedantic?

For you hardware hackers and builders out there.. linked is a very cool tool to docutment wiring in your robots and other devices as well as generate pretty pictures and even a BOM!

The attached link is an excellent, really excellent review of REST API rules of thumb and gullies.

Wow, I've heard about Nix from time to time. I still don't understand it. But the linked article is the first fairly comprehensive one with a detailed tutorial. Of course I am still too scared to try typing in the commands. They seem to claim that it will be totally isolated but still. Mainly I am not sure what benefit I will get in trying it. You can see though, that someone's have put a ton of effort into getting it to this point.

Linked is a good review of Python Flask and Django. I came from a Ruby world, that’s like comparing Sinatra to Rails. Very different and very related.

I didn’t understand Protocols in Python. Linked is an excellent tutorial that explains not just Protocols, but also contrasts them with duck typing, abstract base classes, talks about use cases and non-use cases. It’s an advanced tutorial.

I think Richard Feynman coined the term “cargo cult” in the 70’s! More important is his description of the scientific process, and his high standard and description of integrity in doing science. Computer Scientists, does your research achieve Feynman’s standard?

Linked is a deep article about type hints in Ruby. When I say deep, I mean it! Requires an in depth understanding to appreciate or follow. And it illustrates how incredibly tough it is to add a major new low level feature to Ruby or any other mature language.

Linked is an article about a feature in Ruby that I didn’t know about. I still think Ruby is superior to python in many ways. Unfortunately circumstances and “the world” and “time” has gotten me leaning more and more into python. Still when I next need to create a web based app, I can’t see using Django over rails.

Linked is an article about plotline, a python graphing package that I was not familiar with. Along the way the example shows how to take your raw data and extract from it the various series you will need building the graph. Excellent examples. But I wonder what gap this new package was filling among the multiple existing, popular and excellent graphing packages.

Linked is a comprehensive explanation of the Ruby LSP. RUBY,I had to look up what the P stood for. Actually the correct usage is either “LSP server” because LSP stands for “Language server protocol”… or just language server. Maybe the name LSP is morphing from a pure acronym to just the name of the feature, detached from the initials. Yes programmers are so pedantic, don’t you agree?

Reading well written, idiomatic code is the best way to improve your code. Linked is a nice example.

Linked is a great analysis of what might have gone wrong to cause the crowdstrike global outage of windows computers. Also software engineering and operations techniques and principles which could have avoided the terrible event.

Linked is a service that generates quite respectable short promotional videos. I tried it on the syllabus to my course and it created something fairly amazing. I mean it’s still obviously ai generated. After your amazement subsides you may still not want to use it but it’s worth checking out. Maybe if you have to generate many short videos. It’s definitely worth checking out.

Follow the link below: I’ve been looking for a nicely packaged way to try llms locally, that is without using a cloud based service and without uploading my pi to another company. This tool is a good solution to the problem.

The attached article is a nice introduction to the auth0 service and tooling. Definity worth considering for your app. Authentication is a tricky thing to implement, and that’s before worrying about perfect security. The one thing that I am a little shaky on is relying on a paid service for authentication. What if I lose connectivity to the service or my credit card expires?

See attached info about RYE. Ok so I complain that python has so many different package managers, virtual environment mechanisms, dependency managers, and so on. Much to my chagrin, I recently read something saying, “whatever you do, don’t use poetry”.

Rye But, but, but… rye looks really nice from the linked description. I’m just a little hesitant to lock myself to rye and find myself in 6 months having to do something totally different.

By the way I happen to be a happy user of rbenv (@ Ruby environment manager) so my default is pyenv, which works the same way exactly. Not sure if they are from the same person, but they are basically identical.

Attached is a link to a macOS app Ui for Jupyter notebook. Looking at the screen shots (maybe they’re mockups, I can’t tell) it looks super useful and nice!