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Issue 238: Are ghost jobs haunting your career search?

Welcome to ISSUE #238 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: The framework helping developers build AI apps, how compilers recognize complex patterns, and the oldest known recording of a human voice.

From the blog

The ghost jobs haunting your career search

There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost.

The framework helping devs build LLM apps

Ben and Eira talk with LlamaIndex CEO and cofounder Jerry Liu, along with venture capitalist Jerry Chen, about how the company is making it easier for developers to build LLM apps. They touch on the importance of high-quality training data to improve accuracy and relevance, the role of prompt engineering, the impact of larger context windows, and the challenges of setting up retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

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?

Interesting questions

What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?

“It really is just hard-coded.”

A short story where all humans deliberately evacuate Earth to allow its ecology to recover

“This also describes the premise of WALL-E.”

Accommodating whiteboard glare for low-vision student

It’s hard to learn when you can’t see the board.

How should I tell my colleagues that my family name comes first?

“Sign your email with the name you’d like people to call you and put your full name below.”

Links from around the web

Utility-first CSS isn’t inline styles

Folks tend to think of utility-first CSS with inline styles, but they're more different than we give them credit for.

Free introduction to Bash scripting

If you've ever wanted to be a pro at the command line, this open-source book will help you get there.

Story points are pointless, measure queues

Are story points a waste of time?

Listen to the oldest known recording of a human voice

20 years before Edison recorded sound, Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made what’s now the oldest known recording of a human voice.


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