From the blog
A brief summary of language model finetuning
Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purposes, and what we know about how they work.
How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs
Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel is rethinking IDEs.
How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old app builder.
Ben welcomes Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations and Community at Cloudflare, and his eight-year-old daughter Fay for a chat about how AI tools are helping new developers get started and how to encourage your kids to try coding.
GenAI at work has changed how developers tap into information. Got an opinion on its impact?
Tell us how you’re finding and sharing answers in our latest pulse survey.
Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind
On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developers’ lives easier. They explore the needs that both merchants and consumers have for creating a seamless checkout experience, the importance of reducing friction in payment processes, and how documentation can directly assist the integration experience.
Interesting questions
My client keeps changing password and denying me access before the project is fully complete. How do I politely ask him not to do so?
A strong contender for Most Annoying Client Ever.
How open are advisors to accepting PhD students with research proposals relevant to, but outside, their specific focus?
“Very very few applicants know enough about the field to know what a good research proposal would actually be.”
What aircraft has the propeller with the highest blade count?
TIL: A propeller with 14 blades looks absolutely nuts.
Monkeys, spores and bouncy mushrooms
Two words: timed release.
Links from around the web
Build a spooky app
What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build?
Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
As new features are added to JavaScript, new vulnerabilities and learning curves are added, too. Should the way the language evolves be changed?
Suits, money laundering, and linear programming
Linear programming can identify money laundering schemes...but should it?
The dual nature of events in event-driven architecture
Events serve different purposes, depending on your perspective.
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