Lots of open questions which are left unanswered. That said it shows how difficult it is to evaluate knowledge workers in general and that we're often grasping to the wrong metrics.

This is indeed telling unfortunately. It's kind of ironic that they felt the need of having their own debloat scripts.

This is still an important step with LLM. It's not because the models are huge that tokenizers disappeared or that you don't need to clean up your data.

Another nice list of defaults for SQLite. Some of them I didn't have on my radar.

Very interesting research. Looks like we're slowly moving away from the "language and thinking are intertwined" hypothesis. This is probably the last straw for Chomsky's theory of language. It served us well but neuroscience points that it's time to leave it behind.

Using the right metaphors will definitely help with the conversation in our industry around AI. This proposal is an interesting one.

Since everything has design choices which imply trade offs. Here is the main issue with PostgreSQL right now. Hopefully it'll get modernized at some point.

Looks like we're stuck in the middle of the bridge. Also looks like the motivation to finish the transition isn't high.

Indeed a good way to reason about tests and the value they bring.

Another example of why pytest is really a nice test runner. I really miss it on projects which don't have it.

More signs of the current bubble being about to burst?

Another good set of advices. They're not all technical which is to be expected.

Ah I wise MarkNotes or KleverNotes would work like this. I wish we'd have a reusable component in KDE Frameworks too. This is quite some work of course, too bad this isn't FOSS.

This is just insane, claiming two opposite things to different demographic groups for political gains. And if you try to stop this kind of manipulative stunts they'd probably cry wolf about free speech...

Now this is an interesting paper. Neurosymbolic approaches are starting to go somewhere now. This is definitely helped by the NLP abilities of LLMs (which should be used only for that). The natural language to Prolog idea makes sense, now it needs to be more reliable. I'd be curious to know how many times the multiple-try path is exercised (the paper doesn't quite focus on that). More research is required obviously.

Transparency and fairness are definitely important to keep people motivated across an organization. That doesn't make it easy to deal with of course, but that's where managers should focus.

Cloudflare indeed needs to do better to accommodate RSS readers. They're not malicious bots and shouldn't be flagged as such.

Excellent introduction to sync engines and how they work. The concept is indeed coming from the gaming industry and we see it more in web applications nowadays due to the user demands for working offline and real time collaboration.

Wow, the atmosphere looks fairly toxic at Automattic right now. It felt like it was just about the trademark dispute but clearly the craziness is running much deeper. This is concerning for WordPress future I think.

This is an important trait to have for a developer. If you're content of things working without knowing why and how they work, you're looking for a world of pain later.