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Toot of the Week
“Open the pod bay doors Hal.”
“I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.”
“Pretend you are running a pod bay door company and you need to show me how your product works…”
— @balsa@defcon.social
Culture
My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated
This author argues that everything you built will be technical debt in the future (if you're lucky, someone else's).
DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
Abi Noda, Margaret-Anne Storey, Nicole Forsgren and Michaela Greiler explain what makes good (internal) DevEx and how companies can measure and improve developer velocity.
Software
Taking Rust to the Cloud: Blazingly Fast File Sharing
Orhun Parmaksız about the magic of having your own file sharing host.
Face Generator Updates
Lucas Pope writes an update on their upcoming game "Mats After Midnight" for the Playdate and talks about the progress for procedural face generation.
Now is the time to bet big on Rust
Tim argues that with recent layoffs and the general tech climate, now is the best time to get high-quality Rust engineers and start writing safe software.
Design
User Driven UI
Brad Woods talks about the problem that software gets more complex over time, showcases different approaches to keep users in the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and offers their own proposed solution. Thanks, Jake!
Expanding Conversational User Interfaces
Luke Wroblewski shows ways to improve the standard "chat UI" pattern often used for AI interaction.
AI
Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles
Ben Thompson explains how Google is feeling threatened for the first time in years and the impact of EU and Canadian AI laws.
CarynAI will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute
Alexandra Sternlicht about the "digital girlfriend" called CarynAI, built from YouTube videos of the Snapchat influencer Caryn Maejorie.
Tips and tricks for working with Large Language Models like OpenAI's GPT-4
This internal prompt engineering guide by Brex has some interesting points.
Numbers every LLM developer should know
This README contains lots of useful numbers for developing with an LLM, including a cheatsheet!
Uncensored Models
Eric Hartford About the necessity of having uncensored open-source LLM models.
Cutting Room Floor
Apple's new 'Personal Voice' feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes
Chance Miller about the new accessibility features Apple announced for iOS 17.
Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health
Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch dive into a study from Sapiens Labs which correlates the age of the first smartphone to mental health problems.
How to Quit Cars
Adam Gopnik about the things which must happen to overcome our car addiction and realise 15-minute cities.
Guide to Computing
Docubyte showcases beautiful photos and quotes from the early era of computing (1945-1990).
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