Such a simple question. And yet it is great to see the options for enhancing a service offering and thereby justifying a certain price.

Very useful tutorial on how to turn bits of source code into nice images suitable for presentations.

Simple but useful idea.

Interesting views on various schemes for thinking about goal setting (often including measuring success at meeting them). One that I’ve heard of before is “commander’s intent” which is a succinct way to bring the “commander”s (in business this would probably be the person two levels up, or perhaps the department manager or similar) intent into the conversation.

This analysis is quite interesting and reflects I think the way I perceive user interfaces. I wish though that it actually came down on a side and explained whether for example the Bloomberg interface was good or bad and / or how you would create a modern version of the density that the Bloomberg interface has.

I haven't tried it but it looks amazing. We always love to see new and better Python APIs.

A very practical guide to APIs to work with Excel files in Python. Of course everyone's using Google Sheets so we need that too!

Interesting. But I think it goes a little far in calling this an "anti pattern". I mean I see the point, but it's not so terrible that I would label it as anti.

Good reminders of good ruby code. Some of these I agree with and som are in the "too clever" category for me. Of course that is in the eye of the beholder. For me, an idiom may be a very clever use of Ruby that you see a lot and so you learn it. And a "too clever" usage is very similar except you hardly ever come across it and so you need to think about it. Yes, it's subjective. What was once too clever for someone today may actually feel clearer than the obvious way of doing something. Yet. there is such a thing as "too clever" code in Ruby as in all languages.

Interesting insights about personal vs. personalized. Yes they are quite different.

Ouch. This is not a happy development. I worry about our highly polarized, super conflicted, manipulated and confused society. This aint gonna help.

For makers, this is near idea!

Reading this book right now. It is super good, highly readable. And you really learn about how weird a place to work can be. You’ve got to read it to believe it. I don’t want to say more lest I get sued.

I have not tried this yet, but reading this summary – – which is quite comprehensive – – tell me that the authors have really understood something important about Jupiter notebooks and then trying something that could be a whole lot more valuable. When I use Jupiter notebooks. I always get points when the code is getting too complicated or two and I end up moving it to VS code to work on it a software engineering kind of mode.

I have not tried this yet, but reading this summary – – which is quite comprehensive – – tell me that the authors have really understood something important about Jupiter notebooks and her trying something that could be a whole lot more valuable. When I use Jupiter notebooks. I always get points when the code is getting too complicated or two and I end up moving it to VS code to work on it a software engineering kind of mode.

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A basic overview of the RAG concept and how it is used in LLMs. Even includes source code and a GitHub repository!

Versioning? Never knew about this!

I had never thought of this. It makes sense. Interesting.

Pretty good collection of SQL basics, all in one place.

Another longer article about YAGNI by the pretty-famous Martin Fowler.