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It should shock no one to learn that Open AI's newer, better language model is an improvement over the old one, but if you aren't an active user of any of this newfangled AI stuff, it can be easy to lose track of just how much better things are getting and how quickly. If you subscribe to GPT Plus, ChatGPT will also implement the ReAct pattern for requests it thinks can be formalized, which is one way to mitigate hallucinations.

Emilia David for The Verge: I Love My GPT, but I Can’t Find a Use for Anybody Else’s Though I’ve come to depend on my GPT, it’s the only one I use. I’ve had the exact same experience. I fully expected that the GPT store

Discover how to reduce MTTR to boost service reliability. Find out how parallel scheduling from Checkly can directly minimize mean time to repair.

Simple websites are better than beautiful ones. I'll repeat that for the folks in the back. Simple websites are better than beautiful ones. Let me be clear what I mean by a simple website. I don't mean a Wordpress site with a minimalist theme. I also don't mean a Substack …

Loose coupling is a design principle in software engineering that promotes independence and flexibility between components or modules of a…

Someone is wrong on the Internet; he said that all code is technical debt, and I refute that.

We asked tech professionals what their tech stack looked like in 2023 and what they would be adding to it in 2024.

Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by Theodore Porter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA. There are two general approaches to decision-making. O…

Introduction to the technique of refactoring and online catalog of refactorings

Developers inherently dislike reading fellow developer’s code. Most of the time due to different levels of understanding, and other times due to disparate code that has fixed hundreds of ad-h…

This is my closing talk ( video ) from the GopherConAU conference in Sydney, given November 10, 2023, the 14th anniversary of Go being lau...

Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he's learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.

The this-way-up symbol on cardboard boxes looks like Knuth's up-arrow notation. What both mean.

A mathematical algorithm, greek politics and a bunch of priests…this is what you need for the most beautiful paper I have ever read. This week I am bringing you a paper about the Paxos distributed…Read more of The most beautiful computer science paper I have ever read →

Vint Cerf is one of the most recognizable figures in the pantheon of Internet figures – and as he enters his ninth decade of a remarkable life, one of its most accomplished. I had the honor o…

Code is written once, but read many times. Given this truth, it…

A 2024 plea for lean software

How Intel screwed over a standards body in the midst of giving computer users one of the most resilient technologies around.

I am profiling APIs for APIs.io. I started with Twilio and Stripe, and working my way through many more. I am profiling their API operations using APIs.json, outlining their business approach to doing APIs, but I am also making sure the surface area of each API is profiled using an OpenAPI, profiling the technical dimension of each API. This work is tedious, but worth it. When you get the details of both the business and technical details of an API available in a machine-readable way, you end up with new found API discovery abilities to see which API providers are producing raw API resources, shaping our core digital capabilities, and which are contributing to more meaningful, or at least useful digital experiences.

An alternative to Docker, Nix offers cross-platform reproducibility to app deployment, and Flox will offer some much needed management, security and collaboration features.

Is it ethical to make an open source product commercial? Your first ethical obligation is to yourself and your employees, say founders.

Last weekend was my first race of the year — a 10K on the same course where, back in August, I ran my first race in New York City. That race went so poorly — my worst race, and not just because I ran it slower than the half marathon I’d

The personal website of Knut Magnus Aasrud

What is QUIC protocol and how does it work ?

Uber created a new load-shedding library for its microservice platform, serving over 130 million customers and handling aggregated peaks of millions of requests per second (RPSs). The company replaced the solution based on QALM with Cinnamon library, which, in addition to graceful degradation, can dynamically and continuously adjust the capacity of the service and the amount of load shedding.

Microsoft’s decision to introduce sudo for Windows is strangely symbolic of how influential UNIX has been even on non-UNIX ecosystems.