10 June 2024

29 links · Monday

Adapt Your Coding Style to LLMs or Get Left Behind

There seems to be a stark divide in the developer community regarding the effectiveness of LLMs for coding. Some are disappointed, others quietly reap the benefits of these powerful tools.

Debugging a memory leak - FreeRTOS

Finding the offending allocation of a buggy component, or why you should follow safety critical SW development standards.

Attention, Memory, and Productive Knowledge Work

Here I present some ideas for increasing the productivity of knowledge workers by structuring their workflows around attention and memory. I wrote this for my own benefit, but I hope you find it useful too!

Just keep doing the bit (Karma Yoga Edition)

I have been preparing for job interviews (looking to get into genai+backend roles you know). I like building projects and learning new stuff but job search i...

I Demoed Too Early - KeppyLab

Last Friday I demoed my game WorldEnder.ai and it wasn't ready yet. I had too many slides, which were useless in the demo setting, and I was rushing to explain the core invention. If I could do it over again I wouldn’t change a thing.

Three Questions to Help Triage Your Dashboards

TL;DR: Is it visible at the right time? Is it actionable? Is it used? If the answer to any of these questions is "no" the value of the dashboard vanishes and you need to probe further.

jonny (@jonny@social.coop)

Attached: 1 image More fun publisher surveillance: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely i…

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Announcing TypeScript 5.5 RC - TypeScript

Today we are excited to announce the availability of the release candidate of TypeScript 5.5. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet, or through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc Here’s a quick list of what’s new …

Does an HttpClient await the Header and the body?

If you call HttpClient.GetAsync or HttpClient.PostAsync and then await the result, does the await wait only for the headers to be received or does it wait for the body to be received? Let's find out!

Designing a Lego orrery

Designing a Lego orrery - Personal blog about game development, programming and making