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How do I safely remove a mystery cast iron pipe in my basement?
“Your house was probably fitted for coal gas when it was built.”
The decoder-only transformer architecture is one of the most fundamental ideas in AI research.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is one of the best (and easiest) ways to specialize an LLM over your own data, but successfully applying RAG in practice involves more than just stitching together pretrained models.
Settling down in a new city (or codebase) is a marathon, not a sprint.
How we took a proactive approach to making our sites and products accessible to all.
Would updating a tool few think about make a diff(erence)?
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
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?
There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost.
With the ever-increasing importance of data, we’re always looking for expert voices that can expand our view of what data and our reliance on data means for software development and society as a whole. More and more of our lives are becoming data-driven. Is that a good thing?
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap.
Here’s a simple, three-part framework that explains generative language models.
Single individuals make less of a difference to the success or failure of a technology project than you might think (and that’s a good thing).
It’s easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code.
A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
We asked when and how often CodeGen tools fall short, what challenges developers face with these tools, and what they are doing with all of the free time these tools purport to offer.
A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked.
The "density" of information and actions on our screens has changed a lot in the past few decades.
Sometimes a single character can send an engineer through hoops and hurdles for ages.
Some software is so good, it changes how you think and work almost instantly. Which ones have done that for you?
Making shapes in CSS is a classic exercise, and there are more modern ways to do them now!
The number of outer space discoveries has risen exponentially thanks to constantly improving technology. This is a great look at how scientists made those discoveries accessible to the world.
You know it, and whether you love it or hate it, the terminal on your computer is here to stay. How is it doing?
Are we at a point where we have to question if the artist we love...is actually making the art we love?
The first ever conference for the web framework, 11ty, was streamed for all to see! Missed opportunity not making it an 11-hour conference in our opinion.
In tech communities, you only get what you give!
Most modern front-end tooling takes care of minification for us now, but there are still performance impacts we should know.
If you're writing for fellow developers or users of your software, you can learn a lot from this short but powerful talk.
Rewilding "aims to restore healthy ecosystems by creating wild, biodiverse spaces." Could we do that not just in nature, but online?
Every week we’ll share a collection of great questions from our community, news and articles from our blog, and awesome links from around the web.
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