This is good advice. Going for something extremely small first is a good way to on board in a new project.

New packaging ecosystems bring their new attack vectors. This is definitely a teething problem which will need to be addressed soon.

Good historical perspective about the attempts to get rid of developers. This never unfold as envisioned. This is mostly about the intellectual work to build artifacts handling the world complexity, and this doesn't go away.

Or why the focus on fact checking is doomed to fail. You can't ignore our biases, the social context, and above all the toxic architecture of the big social medias.

Fascinating story. Some people shouldn't be forgotten.

Sounds like a very interesting model (pun intended). It's really nice to pack that much performance in a smaller neural network.

I definitely would like to have some time to fiddle with DuckDB more. It looks like a really neat alternative to something like pandas.

Clearly the regulators don't really understand the level of intrusiveness they're unleashing with mandating age gates. This is one more layer of surveillance for large parts of the population.

Neat little Python trick for testing exceptions.

Maybe we can expect improvements in how HTTP rate limiting is handled?

I'm not sure the legal case is completely lost even though chances are slim. The arguments here are worth mulling over though. There's really an ethical factor to consider.

Friendly reminder that securing APIs and secrets is a must. Not doing so can have really bad consequences.

This is a welcome development at the W3C. Let's hope this working group will bring good things and stewardship for the related standards.

They'll do anything to further their grip on tech. The European Union is sleep walking on this one.

This is good advice. To improve your organisation, focus only on the biggest constraint. Otherwise you'll quickly be spread thin.

Interesting points. Forums are clearly not good replacements for mailing lists. They might be a good complementary to mailing lists but both have very different affordances.

I agree with this so much. It's another one of those I feel I could have written. I have a hard time thinking I could use the current crop of "inference as a service" while they carry so many ethical issues.

There's a lot of this. Learning different languages to get out of your habits definitely brings compound benefits.

Long and good walkthrough on how to render nice clouds in real time.

Is this really to improve your work? Or make you dependent? In the end it might be the user which looses.