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December 2022

11-12-2022
What is Steampipe?

What is Steampipe?

Source: zercurity.medium.com

Seems useful for someone. Just putting it on this list to track it. Here's what the author says: "Steampipe is an fantastic tool from Turbot. Steampipe allows you to easily ask questions about your Cloud and SaaS Infrastructure"

Tags: aws saas administration sysadmin devops explainer
11-12-2022
A Nibble of Git's Object Store

A Nibble of Git's Object Store

Source: getcode.substack.com

We all use git all day long. We know its a power tool. Easy to use and easy to shoot yourself in the foot. A footgun. Learn more about git internals for fun and profit! Power and efficiency through content-addressable storage and delta compression

Tags: git storage internals explainer tips how-to
08-12-2022
Database Performance Optimization and Scaling in Rails | AppSignal Blog

Database Performance Optimization and Scaling in Rails | AppSignal Blog

Source: blog.appsignal.com

A decent introductory article about scaling rails applications. Somewhat rails specific, but it does introduce the general principles. Heres the authors blurb: “Improve your Rails application's performance by fine-tuning and scaling your database.”

Tags: rails scaling ruby sharding how-to active-record scale deploy build docker
08-12-2022
Forget about algorithms and models — learn how to solve problems first

Forget about algorithms and models — learn how to solve problems first

Source: thenextweb.com

An interesting article, stating the obvious. This is highly relevant to someone who teaches college students their in their very first year of learning programming. And yet it is still a subject of debate among my colleagues. Heres the authors’s own words: “t's not necessarily about what programming language you learn or use. It's about how you approach problem solving.”

Tags: programming teaching problem-solving math programming-language
07-12-2022
Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code

Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code

Source: simonwillison.net

Another amazing and somewhat scary example of ChatGPT, the ai tool that everyone is takking about. Heres what the author says: lI’m using this year’s Advent of Code to learn Rust—with the assistance of GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s new ChatGPT. I think one of the most exciting applications of large language …”

Tags: ethics rust advent-of-code explainer ai learn chatgpt
06-12-2022
Creating a Chart

Creating a Chart

Source: docs.preset.io

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

Tags: superset preset charting sql dashboard visualize postgres
06-12-2022
How to Frame a Roof (with Pictures) - wikiHow

How to Frame a Roof (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Source: wikihow.com

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...”

Tags: model wood miniature roof truss how-to
05-12-2022
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow

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

Source: theverge.com

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.’"

Tags: stackoverflow cheating plagiarism teaching articles chatgpt
05-12-2022
How to post Instagram posts on Mastodon using IFTTT

How to post Instagram posts on Mastodon using IFTTT

Source: alephnaughtpix.github.io

As you can tell, I've been trying this and it is a little squirly. But I think I got it to work.

Author says: "A lot of people are starting to join Mastodon these days as an alternative to Twitter, because of it’s perceived benefits of community and local moderation over Twitter’s centralised structure and problems with moderating hate speech and harrasment. (Although, as Sage Sharp notes on Twitter, this is dependent on picking the right community, or “instance” in Mastodon, that supports you.) I’m currently on one of the main active instance of Mastodon to try a few things out before moving to another instance, and one of the things that I been trying out is seeing if I can post my latest Instagrams on Mastodon the way I can on Twitter."

Tags: mastodon web ifttt api web-hooks
04-12-2022
Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Source: engraved.blog

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

Tags: text-generation linux shell matrix chatgpt
04-12-2022
ChatGPT

ChatGPT

Source: chat.openai.com

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. “

Tags: ai text-generation cool-tools chatgpt
04-12-2022
Swurl - Search everything instantly

Swurl - Search everything instantly

Source: swurl.com

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.”

Tags: search google instagrsm instagram limkedin linkedin