A good example of what can be done when you have a rich type system.

What do you want? Speed or safety? Ultimately you'll have to choose one.

A couple of interesting ideas. This fluid focus concept definitely require communication around it when applied.

Again it's definitely not useful for everyone... it might even be dangerous for learning.

Another reminder that you don't want reference to primitive types everywhere in Rust code. There's actually ways to handle this properly. This post gives a couple of simple guidelines to apply.

It shows unexpected results in its measurements. It also highlights the importance of proper settings for your database system.

Be wary of the unproven claims that using LLMs necessarily leads to productivity gains. The impacts might be negative.

Nice exploration of JIT based techniques in Python.

Indeed there is a tension between both approaches in package ecosystems.

Definitely a good list of lessons to learn when you're a junior developer.

Looks like a nice resource to handle the coming move to free threaded Python.

When you put the marketing claims aside, the limitations of those models become obvious. This is important, only finding the root cause of those limitations can give a chance to find a solution to then.

This will definitely push even more conservatism around the existing platforms. More articles mean more training data... The underdogs will then suffer.

If you didn't realise that null pointers open a maze of different traps, this is a good summary of widespread misconceptions.

Indeed, the Fediverse needs to be better known. Any small actions towards this goal helps.

Nice primer on the impact of too many branches in your code on the CPU. This is sometimes a good way to boost performance when you're mindful about that.

Of course I agree with this piece. You need enough culture in your field to know about a breadth of topics. It will definitely help pick up the next one you don't know about yet or help you build parallels for the tougher problems you encounter.

Looks like a neat tool to have available to remap keys.

Looks like the monopolists are vexed and are looking for arguments to discredit the competition... of all the arguments, this one is likely the most ridiculous seeing their own behavior.

I mostly agree with this piece. There's lots of room for optimization still so we might see a temporary drop in the energy consumption of those systems. That said, longer term energy consumption is indeed the main leverage to improve performance of those systems. It can only get us so far, so new techniques will be needed. Hence why my position is that we'll come back to symbolic approaches at some point, there's a clear challenge at interfacing both worlds.