From the blog
Standardization and simplification as key to engineering excellence
In this episode of Leaders of Code, we chat with guests from Lloyds Banking Group about their focus on engineering excellence and the need for organizations to adapt to new technologies while ensuring customer safety and meeting their expectations.
Community Products roadmap update, April 2025
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap
Visually orchestrating data diagnostics but platform agnostic
Ryan chats with Dataiku CEO and cofounder Florian Douetteau about the complexities of the genAI data stack and how his company is orchestrating it.
Generating components, not tokens
On today’s episode, Ben and Ryan chat with Laly Bar-Ilan, Chief Scientist at Bit.
Interesting questions
Caps Lock keeps turning on in each application separately
OR YOU COULD JUST EMBRACE YELLING ALL THE TIME.
Does offering women and children first priority for limited places on a lifeboat breach discrimination law?
“In this case, saving the lives of children would constitute a legitimate aim as they are generally more vulnerable than adults and weaker swimmers than adults.”
Are a third of American Millennials flat Earthers?
One-third know the Earth isn't perfectly round and is actually an oblate spheroid.
How would a plant disconnected to the ground get nitrogen?
The same way plants connected to the ground do: dissolved in water.
Links from around the web
The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
The internet is becoming more disorienting by design.
This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii
It's the opposite of an emulator.
How we diagnosed and fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 anomaly from 15 billion miles away
Debugging becomes way harder when you have 45 hours of latency between command and response.
The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
Raccoons are a lot like early PC users: dark circles around their eyes, eat garbage, and occasionally hide in the attic.
Onboard, organize, and bring your team up to speed in a jiffy. Try Stack Overflow for Teams.