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Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript
Ryan welcomes back Evan You, the creator of Vite and Vue.js, to discuss the evolution of build tools in web development, the unique features of Vite from its plugins to its hot module capabilities, and the future of Vite, including its integration with Rust. Plus, they touch on Vite’s new documentary and the power of open-source communities.
Who watches the watchers? LLM on LLM evaluations
While using LLMs to judge LLM outputs might seem like the fox guarding the henhouse, turns out it works pretty well (and scales better than humans).
A new look for comments
Learn about what’s new with comments on Stack Overflow.
Context is king for secure, AI-generated code
Ryan sits down with Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO and co-founder of Endor Labs, to talk about how AppSec is evolving to address AI’s use cases. They discuss the implications of AI-generated code on security practices, the importance of human oversight in managing vulnerabilities, and how organizations should be balancing security and efficiency with AI.
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Interesting questions
How do open-source projects prevent “design drift” when hundreds of contributors make small changes?
No wonder some folks in tech appreciate dictators when they work so well in open source.
How can I get fired less?
"A pretty straightforward first step is to stop lying."
Is it possible to create a language with no paradoxical statements?
This is the semantics department. You want logic down the hall.
Is the weather intrinsically chaotic?
It's not chaos, it's differential equations.
Links from around the web
Why self-host?
But how will big tech serve you those sweet, sweet targeted ads if they can't read your emails?
Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
The key to good parallel coding is apparently the same as the key to a good night at karaoke: YOLO mode.
I'm in vibe code hell
This is only the second circle, by the way. Wait until you get to the fifth circle of learning-to-code hell: an internship where you do nothing.
A history of large language models
In a time long ago (the 80s) in a galaxy far away (Canada), neuroscientists and psychologists were laying the first seeds of LLMs.
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