Voting for Third Parties Isn't a Waste

Let’s look at some flawed assumptions. | Continue reading


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Fighting PostgreSQL write amplification with HOT updates

by Derk van Veen & Dave Pitts, DBAs, Adyen | Continue reading


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Search text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

#tika #elasticsearch #s3 #mixedmedia | Continue reading


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To delete an entity or not? That's the question

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about data in microservices. Not just any data, but their identifiers; and the many ways we use them to… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

You Don't Need Microservices

Microservices are very much in vogue for web software architecture. For most teams though, the monolith should remain the default choice. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

DiscoArt: Suck at art? Just automate it with AI

Who needs skills to be an artist anyway? All you need is your browser and a prompt | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Hypercard Legacy

Apple’s forgotten software gem was a last breath for democratized computing. Can it be revived? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

CSS: The Important Parts

Struggling with CSS is a common practice, here we explain how it works and common problems that can appear in your code. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

How to Leverage Column Level Lineage on Airflow

Introducing the Alvin Airflow real-time integration | Continue reading


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No More Subscriptions the Rise of the Virtual World

🚀 The Rise of the Virtual World 🌎 | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I found nearly 300k errors on MS COCO object detection

Inaccurate labels are a silent tax on computer vision models | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Enhancing 3rd-Party Library Support in GraalVM Native Image with Shared Metadata

Compiling applications that depend on 3rd-party libraries with GraalVM Native Image just got easier! There is now a GitHub repository that… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I found nearly 300k errors in MS COCO object detection

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Run Your Own DALL·E Mini (Craiyon) Server on EC2 with Meadowrun

Use Meadowrun to run text-to-image models without buying a $1,700 GPU | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Proof-of-Less-Work (PoLW), how does it work?

A discussion with Cheng Wang, inventor of PoLW and founder of Alephium | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Building Voice Applications for Alexa: Seven Ways to Get Started

Seven Ways To Get Started | Continue reading


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Heartbreak of a CS Fool

Dear kids interested in CS for your career, | Continue reading


@arunis100.medium.com | 2 years ago

No-code isn’t scalable. Our learnings at FINN going from 1000 toward 100k ca

At FINN, we grew from 0 to 20,000 car subscriptions, expanded to the US, all in just two years. Those statistics bring one word to mind… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Metaprogramming: I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Computer Write Code

John, my producer, rounded up a first rate crew and talented local actors for the video production the game would require. Given his… | Continue reading


@kaveh808.medium.com | 2 years ago

Neural IR Models

Neural IR(Information Retrieval) is a sought out research topic in the IR research community. Since Google released BERT in 2018 it… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Research Registers: Findings from the Research repositories project

Findings from the Research repositories project | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

A Touch Better

An excerpt from my forthcoming book, Adrift: America in 100 Charts | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Metaverse is for Work, Dalle is Kind of Satanic, and Brain Food

Plus a dose of optimism (with Space Bubbles!) and the reason entertainment is in a backslide. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Monads (minus maths, metaphors, or mythology)

A short while back, in my team Slack channel, I shared the following observation after writing some Elm: | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Get Your Pull Requests Reviewed Faster

After years of being an engineer, I've come to realize that development productivity is quite dependent on the code review process. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I Use Sci-Hub Despite Having Access Through My University

As a researcher, I need to read/skim tens of research papers every week. That’s ok, because I chose this job. But the Abstract sections often don’t give a complete view of the paper. I need to… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Flo Health’s path to the hiring strategy in engineering

Start-up hiring problems of the hyper-growth stage and how engineering strategy and culture could help solve them | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2022 [Part 4]

Boost your productivity with these open-source apps that you probably never heard of before! | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Scaling Our Geo-Search Service for 10x Load

This is the story of how we scaled Available Driver Service (ADS), to meet Gojek’s ever-increasing demand. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

No, C# Is Not Dying. But No Language Lives Forever

C# is thriving. So why are so many people ready to write it off? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Alerts, what are they good for?

A untested concept on how to categorize events so engineering teams gets alerted for the right reasons | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Back in 2006, I built an open-source web app called Podcast Generator, which quickly became one of the most popular content management… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Show HN: Decentralized BTC Full Node with Raspberry Pi

Deployed in a solar park! This is how I set up my Raspberry PI 4 Model B 4GB to be a truly decentralized Bitcoin full node. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Countries with highest default risk in 2022

The Sovereign Debt Vulnerability Ranking is a measure of a country’s default risk, based on four key metrics | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Optimize the browser experience with C2 Password

Get the most out of your browsing experience by using a dedicated password manager like C2 Password to store your login details and other… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

How AI powered search is helping businesses succeed?

Background | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Scrum Teams are often Coached to Death, while the Problems are With Management

Team-level coaching isn’t enough | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Control Spotify Programmatically via AppleScript on macOS

Not just Spotify—this method works for any macOS app. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

What if Everything We Do is Religious?

A reflection on the hidden role of religion in everything we doContinue reading on Jimmy’s Ten Cents » | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Pharos: The Observability Platform at Workday

Distributed systems have been growing rapidly to meet the demands of emerging applications such as business analytics, biomedical… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Do you need feature stores

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@medium.com | 2 years ago

Build a Hacker News Top Stories Demo with Next.js and GitHub Copilot in One Hour

I am not a front-end engineer, and have rarely written Javascript/HTML/CSS codes in my developing experience. I think building a front end… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

A financial argument for deep tech

I’m going to make some claims about “deep tech” so let’s start off by acknowledging that term is fairly subjective. Here’s how we define it… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I deleted 72% of my PostgreSQL container and it still works

It may seem far-fetched, but we deleted almost 72% of the code from the PostgreSQL bitnami image on Docker Hub and it still does works. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Asmit Malakannawar: GSoC’22 Update — Coding Phase 1

GSoC’22 Update — Coding Phase 1Some time has passed since I wrote my last blog post. This is 4th week of GSoC period, and here’s my small update.Check out my previous post on Google Summer of Code with GNOME Foundation.Well GSoC’22 coding period actually started from 13th June, 2 … | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works

Yes, you read that right. I deleted almost 80% of the code from the Redis bitnami container image on Docker Hub and it still does… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

How to optimize your hourly contract rate

Setting your rate is more of an art than a science. There is not going to be a perfect formula. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Pooja Patel: GSoC’22 @GNOME - Coding Phase 1: Evaluate✅, Design✒️,

Updates of the first two weeks of my GSoC Journey with GNOMETakeawaysCommunicate effectively and cohesively with mentorsPlan your time and set deadlines for yourselfAim for iteration, not perfectionA short project briefGNOME HIG CSS Library project aims to design, develop and pub … | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago