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Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters
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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?
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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.
How to bridge the gap between Web2 skills and Web3 workflows
You’re familiar with older web and pre-web languages like JavaScript and Java. Did you know that you can use these well-known languages with Web3 technologies?
The ghost jobs haunting your career search
There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost.
How data are reshaping society: “Datafication” and socioeconomic transformations
With the ever-increasing importance of data, we’re always looking for expert voices that can expand our view of what data and our reliance on data means for software development and society as a whole. More and more of our lives are becoming data-driven. Is that a good thing?
Community Products Roadmap Update, July 2024
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.
Explaining generative language models to (almost) anyone
Here’s a simple, three-part framework that explains generative language models.
The real 10x developer makes their whole team better
Single individuals make less of a difference to the success or failure of a technology project than you might think (and that’s a good thing).
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
It’s easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code.
Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications
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UI density
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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.
remotesynthesis.com
Community is a Tamagotchi
In tech communities, you only get what you give!
blog.sentry.io
Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore?
Most modern front-end tooling takes care of minification for us now, but there are still performance impacts we should know.
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The art of instructional writing
If you're writing for fellow developers or users of your software, you can learn a lot from this short but powerful talk.
noemamag.com
We need to rewild the internet
Rewilding "aims to restore healthy ecosystems by creating wild, biodiverse spaces." Could we do that not just in nature, but online?
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