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What Gemini means for the GenAI boom
12 december 2023 · 21 min
Gemini, Google’s new AI model, is great at competitive programming, among other things. Lees meer
AI Explained is a YouTube channel that covers the latest developments in AI.
One problem with regulating AI is that the technology evolves (much) faster than regulators can.
Wikifunctions is an open repository of code that anyone can use or contribute to.
Did we need another study to tell us that longer commutes are bad for mental health? Probably not, but here’s one anyway.
Are governments spying on you through push notifications? Sounds like it! In fact, push notifications are a privacy nightmare.
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One weird trick for teaching users your software
8 december 2023 · 30 min
CommandBar is a user assistance platform (UAP). Their flagship product, Copilot, is an embedded user assistant agent that companies can configure to help their users with on-demand help, including interactive walkthroughs and personalized responses. Lees meer
Read James’s article about why CommandBar built Copilot, then get started with their docs.
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If you’ve ever wondered Why "Yarn 2" is Yarn 3.0.1, Lifeboat badge winner Ilias Karim has your answer.
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Are LLMs the end of computer programming (as we know it)?
5 december 2023 · 22 min
Do LLMs herald the end of computer programming (as we know it)? A Harvard lecture weighs in on this contentious topic. Lees meer
An epic hardware bug story.
Question from the academic trenches: How bad will it look to prospective employers if you refuse to defend your PhD? (Answer: Pretty bad.)
Another intriguing question: Were postal pneumatic tubes in Berlin really cleaned with wine?
The Jetsons misled us about many aspects of the future, from flying cars to the role of pneumatics, but they were onto something with the series of tubes.
Before influencers and social media algorithms, there were coolhunters.
Congrats to Stack Overflow user tjati, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering What does 'HTML is escaping' mean?.
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Will developers return to hostile offices?
1 december 2023 · 18 min
As the year winds to a close, some big employers are facing lower-than-expected attrition rates—in other words, fewer people than expected are quitting. What a difference a year or two makes. Lees meer
People have strong opinions on the return-to-office conversation. Read Eira’s article and let us know how you feel.
We are just beginning to explore the effects of prompting on the capabilities and performance of LLMs.
The Humane AI pin can be described as a cross between two of humanity’s most beloved technologies: Google Glass and the pager.
People are using low-cost drones, 3D printers, and private satellites to preserve irreplaceable cultural heritage sites before they are destroyed or lost to time. (Stay tuned while Eira figures out how to apply this tech as a cemetery tour guide.)
Stack Overflow user FlipperPA earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to The 'Black' formatter - Python.
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Can GenAI 10X developer productivity?
28 november 2023 · 32 min
Bito AI is an AI coding tool that helps developers work more productively with features like code completion within the IDE and personalized answers drawn from your codebase. Get started with their docs here. Lees meer
ICYMI: Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a way of addressing LLM hallucinations and outdated training data.
Listen to our recent episode about how an original architect of Jira is rethinking meaningful engineering metrics.
Connect with Anand on LinkedIn or Twitter.com.
Shoutout to Stack Overflow user
Jan Kardaš, whose answer to Go: Retrieve a string from between two characters or other strings earned them a Lifeboat badge.
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Cloudflare Workers have a new skill: AI inference-as-a-service
21 november 2023 · 25 min
Cloudflare is a cloud provider used by almost 20% of all websites. Developers new to Cloudflare can get started here. Lees meer
Cloudflare recently launched Workers AI, an open, pay-as-you-go AI inference-as-a-service platform that lets developers run machine learning models on the Cloudflare network from their own code. Developers can get started here.
On a related note, read Ryan’s article exploring the infrastructure and code behind edge functions or check out his conversation with Vercel CTO Malte Ubl.
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a strategy that helps address both LLM hallucinations and out-of-date training data.
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Connect with Cassidy through her website.
Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Bamieh, whose answer to What does the function call app.use(cors()) do? earned them a Lifeboat badge.
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The AI assistant trained on your company’s data
17 november 2023 · 29 min
Sana automates user enrollment, training reminders, and other manual/admin tasks associated with onboarding and learning. Sana AI, their AI assistant, is trained on a company’s data so employees can self-serve the knowledge they need. Lees meer
On a related note, listen to our interview with Gašper Beguš, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about his research into how LLMs and humans acquire language.
You can also read about how Stack Overflow implemented semantic search.
Connect with Joel on LinkedIn.
Stack Overflow user Donagh Hatton received a well-earned Lifeboat badge with their answer to Why is StringBuilder much faster than String?.
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Build vs. buy doesn't matter. Tool adoption does.
15 november 2023 · 27 min
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Chronosphere is introducing Lens, a cloud-native observability tool to view data flows between services.
At Uber, Rob created M3, an open-source metrics engine compatible with Prometheus.
Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, ralf htp, for their answer to How to read an image in Python OpenCV.
If you want to meet Rob and the Chronosphere team, they’ll be at AWS re:Invent from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1.
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Trust as a service for validating OSS dependencies
14 november 2023 · 13 min
ICYMI, listen to part one of this conversation. Lees meer
Craig is the cofounder and CEO of Stacklok, which helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Stacklok’s free-to-use service, Trusty, employs a statistical analysis of author/repo activity and a package’s source of origin to assess its trustworthiness.
Craig cofounded the Kubernetes project, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Craig is on LinkedIn.
Stack Overflow user mprivat earned a well-deserved Lifeboat badge by answering Abstract class extending concrete classes.
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How the cocreator of Kubernetes is helping developers build safer software
10 november 2023 · 16 min
Stacklok helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Trusty is their free-to-use service that employs a statistical analysis of author/repo activity and a package’s source of origin to assess its trustworthiness. Lees meer
Craig cofounded the Kubernetes project, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
He is also the former VP of Research and Development at VMWare.
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Congrats to Stack Overflow user netcorefan, who earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to Need a workaround to access ReadOnlySpan inside a function that returns an IEnumerable.
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He helped create Jira. Now he's searching for meaningful engineering metrics
7 november 2023 · 29 min
Sleuth helps engineering teams systematically improve efficiency by tracking speed and release quality, preventing slowdowns and bottlenecks, and removing toil and unnecessary friction. Try it for free or see how teams are using Sleuth. Interested in the automations they offer for teams, check out their public marketplace. Lees meer
Dylan was an original architect on JIRA, so he’s not exactly new to issue- and project-tracking software.
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) is a research program that tries to understand what drives successful software delivery and operations performance.
According to Dylan, one thing the best development teams have in common is their culture of continuous learning.
Connect with Dylan on LinkedIn.
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Tomasz Tunguz: From Java engineer to investor in eight unicorns
3 november 2023 · 20 min
Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies. Lees meer
He coauthored the book Winning with Data, a deep dive into how big data has changed business best practices and organizational culture.
Find Tomasz’s writing here.
Follow Tomasz on LinkedIn or Twitter.com.
In honor of Tomasz’s early career, we’re shouting out Johnny Hujol’s answer to What exactly is a container in J2EE and how does it help?.
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Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte
31 oktober 2023 · 28 min
Giamir is the tech lead for Stacks, Stack Overflow’s design system. Lees meer
Svelte is a tool for building web apps. Delve into their docs or, if you’re brand-new to Svelte, start with this interactive tutorial.
More than 90,000 devs responded to our 2023 Developer Survey where Svelte was ranked the second-most admired web framework.
Connect with Giamir via his website or LinkedIn.
Today we’re shouting out a topical question asked by Félix Paradis, who (like 73,000 others) wanted to know How to pass parameters to on:click in Svelte?.
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Zero trust with zero problems
27 oktober 2023 · 24 min
Alex and cofounder/CTO Paul Querna started ConductorOne because they saw that traditional identity governance (IGA) and privileged access management (PAM) needed to be rethought for cloud-forward companies. Lees meer
Before he cofounded Conductor One, Alev Bovee was a senior director of product management for zero trust and security at Okta.
Read Ben’s article about how Computers are learning to decode the language of our minds.
Would you trade an iris scan for some crypto? Sure, what could go wrong?
Connect with Alex on LinkedIn.
Stack Overflow user Matthew Watson earned a Lifeboat badge for helping more than 32,000 people by answering Checking if an array is null or empty.
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Forget the 10X engineer—it’s about building a 10X culture
25 oktober 2023 · 32 min
Find out why others have joined Shell. Lees meer
Wondering what it’s like to be a developer at one of the world’s biggest energy companies? They’re hiring.
Behavior-driven development is a conceptual approach to software development that calls for collaboration and alignment between developers, testers, and domain experts.
One of the new technologies James and Tristan helped introduce at Shell is Kafka, an open-source distributed event streaming platform. Check out their docs here.
Engineering teams at Shell use Stack Overflow for Teams to capture and share information. Get started for free here.
Congratulations to David Snabel, winner of a Stellar Question badge for How do I see which version of Swift I’m using?.
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Composable architecture
24 oktober 2023 · 29 min
At Netlify Compose 2023, Biilmann announced their new composable web platform. Lees meer
This isn’t Netlify’s first rodeo—we talked to them for episodes 588 and 456.
You can find Matt Biilmann on X or LinkedIn (and perhaps elsewhere).
Today’s shoutout goes to Dick Lucas who asked a topical question, How to prevent Netlify from treating warnings as errors because process.env.CI = true?, viewed by over 84,000 people.
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Forget "No Code." Adios "Low Code." Say hello to "Yes Code!"
20 oktober 2023 · 32 min
The company says v0 is intended to author the first draft of your site or app, then help you iterate quickly. It won't mean the end of junior web developers, says Lee, as a polished final draft still requires a human touch. And it's not a low code no code approach, as the system allows you to switch easily between the GenAI approach and the actual code. Lees meer
You can learn more about v0 here and head over here to join the waitlist.
You can find Lee on LinkedIn or his website.
Congrats to Stack Overflow user Jonathon Reinhart, who earned a Lifeboat badge for answering the question: How can I import a static library in Python?
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The company making it easier to turn your coffee machine into a robot
17 oktober 2023 · 24 min
Listen to our previous episodes with Eliot here and here. Lees meer
Viam is a software platform for building, monitoring, and managing data from smart machines, including industrial robots, autonomous vehicles, smart home appliances, and IoT devices. Get an overview of the Viam platform or dig into their docs.
Connect with Eliot on LinkedIn.
Three cheers for Stack Overflow user mattl, who won a Great Question badge with How to remove all contents of a directory using Golang?.
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Chatting with the GM of CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered pair programmer for AWS
13 oktober 2023 · 24 min
CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion trained on Amazon and open-source code that gives you coding suggestions in real time. Lees meer
In addition to being general manager for CodeWhisperer, Doug is also the GM for Amazon CodeGuru Security, which uses machine learning to detect security policy violations and vulnerabilities.
Connect with Doug on LinkedIn.
Asked and answered: user Manodnya B won a Lifeboat badge for answering Cannot find the Start Button under CodeWhisperer in AWS Toolkit.
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No one likes meetings. Let's reduce their blast radius.
10 oktober 2023 · 25 min
Clockwise is a time orchestration platform that optimizes schedules to create more time in your day. Clockwise AI, their new GPT-powered scheduling assistant, is launching in beta. Join the waitlist here to get early access. (They’re also hiring!) Lees meer
Ryan wrote a recent article about whether meetings are making developers less productive.
Cal Newport’s instant classic Deep Work is about learning to tune out distractions and focus on cognitively demanding tasks.
Speaking of classics, Paul Graham of Y Combinator wrote about maker’s vs. manager’s schedules back in 2009.
Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.
Kudos to Stack Overflow user Joe Caruso, who won a Great Question badge with Get current time in hours and minutes.
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Subatomic speed, math misadventures, and the biggest fraud trial in history
6 oktober 2023 · 18 min
California is trying to transform how math is taught. How’s that going? Lees meer
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that allows scientists to see how electrons move by mapping their positions in an atom. Learn more here and here.
As Ben says, speaking of things that are difficult to observe and don’t make a lot of sense, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for a historically huge amount of fraud. Follow the live trial blog from Wired or check out their explainer.
Starting next year, Unity is charging developer fees. We explore the back and forth as they try to find a solution that works for the company and the community.
Shoutout to user vasco, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to test abstract class in Java with JUnit?.
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How an algo raver stays in key(boards)
4 oktober 2023 · 30 min
If you want to hear more of her work, check out Alexandra’s Instagram. Lees meer
She uses Tidal Cycles and Supercollider to make algorithms that get people to dance.
Interested in algoraves? You may be able to find one near you or run your own.
Check out Alexandra in her ad for Logitech, then check out her favorite keyboard
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USB-C for all, PHP 4EVA, and what do LLMs actually know (if anything)?
3 oktober 2023 · 18 min
Ben is watching AI Explained, a YouTube channel that covers the latest AI developments and their implications. Lees meer
Read Ryan’s article Do large language models know what they are talking about?.
Is language really unique to humans? New research suggests maybe not.
Not for the first time, Ryan recommends the work of Noam Chomsky: Why Only Us: Language and Evolution, an evolutionary account of language acquisition in humans written with Robert C. Berwick.
OverflowAI search is now available for alpha testing. Learn more here.
Good news for your cable clutter: Apple is switching to USB-C charging ports. Here’s when.
The WGA (Writers Guild of America) strike ended with an agreement that “allows for artificial intelligence as a tool, not a replacement,” but the arguments about creativity, copyright, and AI are far from over.
If you’re interested in working with PHP, head over to the PHP Collective and check out conversations like Most useful new PHP features for version 8?.
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How to write high-performance SQL for your Postgres database
29 september 2023 · 25 min
pgnanalyze helps users deliver consistent PostgreSQL performance and availability at any scale. Get started with a free trial or explore their docs. You can also find them on YouTube, where Lukas posts a weekly show called 5mins of Postgres. Lees meer
Lukas was a founding engineer of Citus Data. Citus is an open-source extension to PostgreSQL that was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Find them on GitHub.
If you’re new to the topic, SQL (Structured Query Language) is a language for querying databases, introduced in the 1970s.
Find Lukas on LinkedIn, Twitter, or GitHub.
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Being creative with math: The immersive artist who traded a sketchpad for a keyboard
27 september 2023 · 24 min
Check out Luyang’s work at his website or in this Youtube playlist. Lees meer
To make these animations, Luyang uses Processing, a 20-year-old language that started out as a visual way to teach programming but evolved into a professional development tool.
Logitech selected Luyang as one of the ambassadors to show off what you can do with their MX Keys S Combo.
Shout out to George Profenza for dropping a top answer on Position of a vector in coordinate system (Processing/p5.js).
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Like Python++ for AI developers
26 september 2023 · 17 min
If you missed the first part of our conversation with Chris, listen to it here. Lees meer
Modular’s new programming language, Mojo, is built for AI developers. Check out their docs or find them on GitHub.
Connect with Chris on LinkedIn.
Shoutout to user DanielGibbs, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering what is the difference between getType() and getClass() in java?.
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Mojo: The usability of Python with the performance of C
22 september 2023 · 20 min
Modular built a new programming language, Mojo, for AI developers. Explore their docs or find them on GitHub. Lees meer
Chris is on LinkedIn.
Congratulations to user Shengyuan Lu, whose answer to Priority queue ordering of elements merited a Lifeboat badge.
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Forget AGI. Let’s built ADI: Augmented Developer Intelligence
19 september 2023 · 17 min
If you missed the first part of this conversation, listen to it here. Lees meer
Replit is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment). Check out their blog or start coding.
ICYMI: Stack Overflow recently implemented semantic search, allowing users to search using natural language.
Explore Stack Overflow Labs to learn more about OverflowAI and other projects.
Amjad Masad is on LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub.
Congratulations to Stack Overflow user macxpat, whose answer to How to install Linux packages in Replit earned a Lifeboat badge.
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Multiplayer programming on mobile: a chat with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
15 september 2023 · 23 min
Replit is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment). See what they’re up to on their blog or just start coding. Lees meer
RIP Google Wave, one of the greats.
Find Amjad on LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, or via his website.
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Founder vs Investor: What VCs are really looking for
12 september 2023 · 25 min
After founding two companies, including StrongDM, a dynamic management access platform (explore their docs here), Elizabeth took a “break” by co-authoring a book. Lees meer
Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO is about what she learned as a founder and executive about the founder-investor relationship. Order it on Bookshop or Amazon.
Elizabeth’s co-author is investor and advisor Jerry Neumann, managing director of Neu Venture Capital.
One option for your next weekend outing: a ride and tie.
Connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn.
Connect with Jerry Neumann on LinkedIn.
Nice work: User Reap’s answer to Get String Name from Enum in C# earned them a Lifeboat badge.
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Computers are learning to read our minds
8 september 2023 · 30 min
Gašper’s work combines machine learning, statistical modeling, neuroimaging, and behavioral experiments “to better understand how neural networks learn internal representations in speech and how humans learn to speak.” Lees meer
One thing that surprised him about generative adversarial networks (GANs)? How innovative they are, capable of generating English words they’ve never heard before based on words they have.
Read about how AI is restoring a stroke survivor’s ability to speak.
Universal grammar proposes a hypothetical structure in the brain responsible for humans’ innate language abilities. The concept is credited to the famous linguist Noam Chomsky; read his take on GenAI.
AI expert Yoshua Bengio recently signed an open letter asking AI labs to pause the training of AI systems powerful enough to pass the Turing test. Read about his reasoning.
Find the Berkeley Speech and Communication Network here.
Find Gašper on his website, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Or dive into his research.
Congratulations to Lifeboat badge winner and self-proclaimed data nerd John Rotenstein, who saved How can I delete files older than seven days in Amazon S3? from the ignominy of ignorance.
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You can’t spell Zapier without API
1 september 2023 · 31 min
Zapier is a no-code automation platform that allows users to create custom workflows for their critical work apps. Learn how it works, peruse the blog, or sign up to try beta AI features. Lees meer
Check out Reid’s article about how to write more effective AI prompts.
Zapier built a natural language actions (NLA) API to enable AI models to independently use natural language to complete Zapier actions.
You know the doge, but do you know the dog? RIP Balltze.
Find Reid on LinkedIn and the social network formerly known as Twitter.
Find Kyle on LinkedIn, GitHub, and text-based social media.
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Job description: professional workplace bestie
29 augustus 2023 · 29 min
Stack Overflow’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) focus on aspects of employees’ personhood, “who you are outside of your role, who you bring to every single room that you enter,” Joey explains. Among our ERGs are Black and Brown, LGBTQ+, MIND (mental illness and neurodiversity), and a group for caregivers and parents. Interested in learning more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, plus more about what it’s like to work at Stack Overflow? Start here. Lees meer
Members of Stack’s MIND ERG contributed invaluable perspective, insights, and feedback that helped us write our two-parter on ADHD and neurodiversity: Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone and What developers with ADHD want you to know.
Joey is on LinkedIn.
Natasha is also on LinkedIn.
Kyle is on Linked, GitHub, and text-based social media.
Stack Overflow user apostofes earned a Great Question badge for their query How do I get the value of a tensor in PyTorch?, which has helped 175,000 people and counting.
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Fighting comment spam at Facebook scale
25 augustus 2023 · 33 min
Rockset is a real-time search and analytics database. Explore their docs and developer tools here. Lees meer
We here at Stack Overflow recently implemented our own vector search. Here’s a technical deep dive into how we did it.
Louis is on LinkedIn.
Three cheers for Lifeboat badge winner user7610, who rescued C++ application terminates with 143 exit code. What does it mean? with a solid answer.
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Medical research made understandable with AI
22 augustus 2023 · 27 min
Sorcero uses a mix of natural language processing, generative AI, and even more old school symbolic AI, where they craft their own ontologies, to try and ingest that river of new medical data and make it easier to search and comprehend. Lees meer
Less than 0.2% of the global population can read a medical paper! AI can help make these dense works up to 700x more readable.
Medical Affairs Teams are the groups inside big pharmaceutical companies that helps surface the right information to health providers. It’s hard for them to keep up with the thousands of new articles and research papers being published each month, much less unpack that information.
Connect with Dipanwita Das and Hellmut Adolphs on LinkedIn.
Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner John Carrell for saving the question Self join vs. inner join with an excellent answer.
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Semantic search without the napalm grandma exploit
18 augustus 2023 · 30 min
Last month, we announced the launch of OverflowAI from the stage of WeAreDevelopers. To learn more about AI-driven products and features in the works, check out Stack Overflow Labs. Lees meer
Among the projects Alex works on is a semantic search API and the new search experience on Stack Overflow for Teams.
LLMs can be vulnerable to jailbreak attacks like the napalm grandma exploit.
Kyle is on GitHub, Linked, and text-based social media.
Michael is on LinkedIn.
Alex is on LinkedIn.
Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner Pushpendra, who scooped Error: Invalid postback or callback argument from a churning ocean of ignorance.
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Making event-driven development predictable with Discover
16 augustus 2023 · 27 min
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Go deeper into Technology at Discover.
If your interested in working on an event-driven architecture that uses domain-driven design within a financial organization, check out jobs.discover.com.
Connect with Paul on LinkedIn.
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Want better answers from your data? Ask better questions
15 augustus 2023 · 25 min
The mission of Night Shift Development is to democratize data analytics to help organizations and users of all skill levels understand their data. Their flagship product, ClearQuery, is a data intelligence and analytics platform designed for nontechnical users. Lees meer
ClearQuery has a free version that lets you try out the full array of features. Learn how it works and register here to get started, gratis.
Learn how Stack Overflow implemented semantic search to allow users to search using natural language.
Read about why self-healing code is the future of software development.
Tim is on LinkedIn.
Thanks and congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Boann, whose answer to Sort four numbers without an array has been viewed 23,000 times and counting.
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Why everyone should be an AppSec specialist
11 augustus 2023 · 27 min
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Understanding SRE
8 augustus 2023 · 25 min
Vlad is Head of Research and Development at Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare arm of tech conglomerate Siemens. He wrote about SRE on our blog here. Lees meer
His book, Establishing SRE Foundations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Software Delivery Organizations, is available now.
Site reliability engineering (SRE) applies a software engineering approach to IT operations and infrastructure, with the goal of building scalable, reliable systems capable of handling constant updates from dev teams. SRE is closely related to DevOps.
ICYMI, we talked with Chef cofounder Adam Jacob about how he’s creating a new-and-improved approach to infrastructure automation. Listen to that conversation here.
Connect with Vlad on LinkedIn, where you can also read snippets of his book on SRE.
Lifeboat badge winner Abbas Galiyakotwala’s answer to How do I split a comma-separated string? filled a void of ignorance with a little extra knowledge.
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The fine line between product and engineering
4 augustus 2023 · 23 min
Twilio is a customer engagement platform whose communication APIs for voice, text, chat, email, and video are used by millions of developers. See what’s happening on their blog, dig into their docs, or check out their Stack Overflow Collective. Lees meer
This summer, Twilio announced CustomerAI, which applies the power of LLMs to the rich troves of customer data that flows through Twilio’s platform. Learn more here.
ICYMI: From the stage of WeAreDevelopers, Stack Overflow announced a roadmap for integrating GenAI into our public platform and paid offerings. Check out Stack Overflow Labs to see what we’re working on.
Also ICYMI: Listen to our conversation with Jody about his path from physics to sales to programming and what drew him to working at Stack Overflow.
Register for SIGNAL 2023, Twilio’s customer and developer conference, happening virtually and for free on August 23, 2023. Attendees can expect a deep dive into AI and how it’s revolutionizing customer experience technology.
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Connect with Jody on LinkedIn.
Three cheers for Lifeboat badge winner blackgreen, who swooped in to save How can I write a generic function that accepts any numerical type? from the howling void of ignorance.
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How engineering teams at a large org can move at startup speed
2 augustus 2023 · 33 min
Find out why others have joined Shell. Lees meer
If you want to experience being a developer at one of the world’s largest energy companies, they’re hiring.
Amber Webb is on LinkedIn.
Naresh Kumar is on LinkedIn.
Congrats to Tomasz Kula, today’s Lifeboat badge winner, for dropping some knowledge on Multiple components binding with the same reactive form control update issue and saving it from ruin.
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From startup to Google and back again
1 augustus 2023 · 30 min
Sean hosts Partially Redacted, a podcast about data privacy, security, and compliance. Lees meer
He also hosts the podcast Software Engineering Daily, which features technical interviews on everything from the ethics of GPTs to cloud-native search and WebAssembly. Start with the recent episode Surviving ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki (of Survivor fame).
You can also read about how he crowdsourced a behavioral model for Survivor.
Sean spent four years working in developer relations (DevRel) at Google. Here’s a Software Engineering Daily episode about the role DevRel plays at Google.
Connect with Sean on LinkedIn or Twitter (I mean, X), or check out his website.
Kudos to Great Question badge winner Kai Sellgren for asking How to remove an element from a vector given the element?.
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Behind the scenes with the folks building OverflowAI
28 juli 2023 · 23 min
You can learn more about OverflowAI and sign up to be an alpha tester here. Lees meer
You can check out Ellen and Jody on Linkedin.
Congrats to Ben Lindsay, who was awarded a Lifeboat badge for his answer to: How can I divide each element in a tuple by a single integer?
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How the Python team is adapting the language for an AI future
25 juli 2023 · 19 min
Pablo is a Python core developer, Steering Council member, and release manager of Python 3.10 and 3.11. He’s currently a senior software engineer at Bloomberg. Lees meer
Looking for a comprehensive guide to contributing to Python? The Python Developer’s Guide is the place to start.
The Zen of Python is a list of the language’s guiding principles, including, “There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it.”
Find Pablo on LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub.
Find Kyle, a senior software engineer on Stack Overflow’s public platform, on Linked, Twitter, and GitHub.
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What it's like to be on the Python Steering Council
21 juli 2023 · 20 min
Pablo is a Python core developer, Steering Council member, and release manager of Python 3.10 and 3.11. He splits this work 50/50 with his day job as a senior software engineer at Bloomberg. Lees meer
An astrophysicist by training, he did his PhD on rotating black holes.
Whether you’re a new contributor or a seasoned veteran, the Python Developer’s Guide is a comprehensive guide to contributing to Python.
Pablo is on LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub.
Kyle is also on Linked, Twitter, and GitHub.
Shoutout to Inquisitive Badge winner trever for asking well-received questions on 30 separate days.
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How AI can help your business, without the hallucinations
19 juli 2023 · 23 min
DoIT’s sales pitch is simple: they provide technology and expertise to clients who want to use the cloud, free of charge, with the big cloud providers paying the bills. Lees meer
You can check out Sascha’s writing on machine learning on his Medium blog.
Connect with him on LinkedIn or subscribe to his YouTube channel
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How ICs can get recognition for their work on big projects
18 juli 2023 · 27 min
Cat’s research centers on the socio-cognitive factors and processes that help people learn and succeed. In her role as director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab, she studies what makes software teams thrive and shares that research with the community so teams can learn from her findings. Lees meer
In a recent report, the Dev Success Lab explored how visibility can encourage higher-performing teams and better business outcomes.
Pluralsight is an education platform for software developers. Pluralsight Flow, their software delivery intelligence platform, is designed to eliminate developer friction and wasted time.
Cat is on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is Kent Kostelac, who gave a terrific answer to One-line if-else in C#.
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How terrifying is giving a conference talk?
14 juli 2023 · 18 min
ICYMI, listen to our episode with Agile pioneer Jim Highsmith: The meeting that changed how we build software (Ep. 579). Lees meer
Explore Connell’s website or his talks.
Connell will be speaking at DDD East Midlands again this year: October 7, 2023 (with apologies to our British listeners for the date format).
He’s also on GitHub, Twitter, and Stack Overflow (naturally).
Thanks to Connell for answering his own question: Why does this SelectMany perform several SQL queries instead of a single join?.
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Jamstack is evolving toward a composable web
11 juli 2023 · 21 min
Netlify’s all-in-one development platform gives devs access to build, deploy, and backend services for websites and web apps. Get started with their docs. Lees meer
Jamstack is a web development architecture based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup (the JAM in Jamstack). Learn what Jamstack is and what benefits it offers.
Composable architecture has been called “the next big thing” in web development. Netlify defines it as “a development approach [that] provides the ability to more rapidly build technology stacks by making use of logically separated reusable and customizable components.”
Dana is on LinkedIn.
Warm congrats to Lifeboat badge winner hasectic saif, who rescued the question How can I print to standard error in C with 'printf'? from an answerless void.
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