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December 2022

Creating a Chart

Creating a Chart –I’ve been experimenting with Apache Superset to create charts and dashboards. The features are very powerul and consequently can be obscure. I just found this doc which seems helpful

How to Frame a Roof (with Pictures) – wikiHow

How to Frame a Roof (with Pictures) – wikiHow –How did this particular link end up here? I am learning to construct small wooden models. Currently I am making a simple framed house. I needed to review how a roof truss is constructed. Here is what the author says: “Framing a roof is the l. ast step in framing new construction. While most home builders will outsource the construction of roofing trusses–the rafter supports of the roof itself–learning to frame a roof yourself is one of the true arts of…”

AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow

AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow –I’m interested what’s going to happen as ChatGPT gets better. I hadn’t thought about StackOverflow. But I was thinking about students using it to do homework assignments, like papers and essays. Here’s what the author says: “People have been using OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to flood the site with AI responses, but Stack Overflow’s mods say these ‘have a high rate of being incorrect.’”

ChatGPT

ChatGPT –For 2022, the performance of this AI is truly amazing. Maybe in a year or five it will seem simple but for now, its crzay good and a bit scary: “A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges. “

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT –This is a truly amazing and mind-bending example of something that ChatGPT can do. Wheels within wheels. The Matrix. Check out what the author says: “Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?l

Article: Tailwind is a Leaky Abstraction

Article: Tailwind is a Leaky Abstraction –Programmers love abstracting things. Hey, i keep writing the same sequence, let me create a language on top of this language to make things easier. Ive never liked nor bothered learning SCSS and SASS. For that reason. I figured that one way ot the other id stil end up in CSS. The same seems to be true of tailwind!

Swurl – Search everything instantly

Swurl – Search everything instantly –Played with this a little. While google already searches all those other sources still i like the formatting of the output. Not sure if i will continuw to like it ad i use it more. But intriguing! Author dsys: “Search Google, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, & many more sites all at once. See all the results in 1 organized view.”

I Was Wrong About Mastodon – EscapingTech

I Was Wrong About Mastodon – EscapingTech –Excellent article explaining mastodon logic and semantixs, especially with respect to the relationship that instances have to each other and what moderation options instance operstors have. The author: “I said that Mastodon moderation wouldn’t scale, it does. The cultural differences will likely continue to maintain a friendlier atmosphere regardless of size.”

November 2022

Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE

Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE –Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force. What ever the real number is, there are whole teams with out engineers on it now. Yet, the website goes on and the tweets keep coming. This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat. I’d like to explain my little corner of Twitter (though it wasn’t

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale –The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”