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Community Products Roadmap Update, October 2024
We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.
Ongoing community data protection
Socially responsible use of community data needs to be mutually beneficial: the more potential partners are willing to contribute to community development, the more access to community content they receive.
Attribution as the foundation of developer trust
The entire AI ecosystem is at risk without trust.
Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models
The internet is changing once again: it is becoming more fragmented as the separation between sources of knowledge and how users interact with that knowledge grows.
The changing state of the Internet and related business models
If you’re weary of reading about the latest chatbot innovations and the nine ways AI will change your daily life next year, this series of posts may be for you.
Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens
Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Let’s build it together from scratch.
Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark
How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?
One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests
More code isn't always a good thing, but fewer bugs is.
Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters
In today's data-driven world, Apache Kafka has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data streaming, particularly with the rise of AI and the immense volumes of data it generates.
LLMs evolve quickly. Their underlying architecture, not so much.
The decoder-only transformer architecture is one of the most fundamental ideas in AI research.
Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is one of the best (and easiest) ways to specialize an LLM over your own data, but successfully applying RAG in practice involves more than just stitching together pretrained models.
Navigating cities of code with Norris Numbers
Settling down in a new city (or codebase) is a marathon, not a sprint.
Accessibility by design: Building interfaces for everyone at Stack Overflow
How we took a proactive approach to making our sites and products accessible to all.
This developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved?
Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)?
Research roadmap update: August 2024
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Developers want more, more, more: the 2024 results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey
This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are most frustrated by technical debt at work, and they don’t see AI as a threat to their jobs.
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Doing support makes you a better engineer
Learning how customers actually have problems helps you design better solutions.
kellblog.com
Simplifiers go far, complexifiers get stuck
If you can explain it like I'm five, then you can move up in the world.
benn.substack.com
Do AI companies work?
Unlike many other companies, the money an AI company has already spent doesn't protect them from disruption.
about.winamp.com
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code
The OG mp3 player is now open source! Time to listen to that old favorite, "Unknown artist - track 01.mp3" again.
matthewstrom.com
UI density
The "density" of information and actions on our screens has changed a lot in the past few decades.
tjaart.substack.com
The curious case of the missing period
Sometimes a single character can send an engineer through hoops and hurdles for ages.
mmapped.blog
Enlightenmentware
Some software is so good, it changes how you think and work almost instantly. Which ones have done that for you?
smashingmagazine.com
The modern guide for making CSS shapes
Making shapes in CSS is a classic exercise, and there are more modern ways to do them now!
spectrum.ieee.org
A brief history of the world’s first planetarium
The number of outer space discoveries has risen exponentially thanks to constantly improving technology. This is a great look at how scientists made those discoveries accessible to the world.
gpanders.com
State of the terminal
You know it, and whether you love it or hate it, the terminal on your computer is here to stay. How is it doing?
maggieappleton.com
Faking William Morris, generative forgery, and the erosion of art history
Are we at a point where we have to question if the artist we love...is actually making the art we love?
youtube.com
The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
The first ever conference for the web framework, 11ty, was streamed for all to see! Missed opportunity not making it an 11-hour conference in our opinion.
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