If you’re a programmer, you’re likely already using AI and large language models in your workflow. For some time now, Claude Sonnet has been the undisputed king of models used for programming. It has earned the top spot in multiple code-focused benchmarks, such as the Aider LLM leaderboard and LiveBench. But that dominance might be changing. Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro has quickly overtaken the top spot from Sonnet 3.7 in many benchmarks. It al..
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Back in the days of the Apple II, you could apparently run off to Akihabara and get the same computer with possibly better components for less money. Or just the parts you needed. I had a chance to look at such an Apple II Plus clone that wouldn’t boot into BASIC. It beeped and displayed … Continue reading Easy repair: unmarked Apple II Plus clone
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I presented at .NET Conf Rome 2025 yesterday, and it went very well, or at least that was my impression. I enjoyed myself, and the reception seemed great, from the organizers, the other speakers (most of whom are fellow MVPs), and the audience. But the kicker was just before the session when, at the coffee break, an attendant approached me to shake hands and tell me he had known me for a long time because he discovered and used Eve in....
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I presented at .NET Conf Rome 2025 yesterday, and it went very well, or at least that was my impression. I enjoyed myself, and the reception seemed great, from the organizers, the other speakers (most of whom are fellow MVPs), and the audience. But the kicker was just before the session when, at the coffee break, an attendant approached me to shake hands and tell me he had known me for a long time because he discovered and used Eve in....
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I presented at .NET Conf Rome 2025 yesterday, and it went very well, or at least that was my impression. I enjoyed myself, and the reception seemed great, from the organizers, the other speakers (most of whom are fellow MVPs), and the audience. But the kicker was just before the session when, at the coffee break, an attendant approached me to shake hands and tell me he had known me for a long time because he discovered and used Eve in....
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I presented at .NET Conf Rome 2025 yesterday, and it went very well, or at least that was my impression. I enjoyed myself, and the reception seemed great, from the organizers, the other speakers (most of whom are fellow MVPs), and the audience. But the kicker was just before the session when, at the coffee break, an attendant approached me to shake hands and tell me he had known me for a long time because he discovered and used Eve in....
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I recently had a chance to look at a malfunctioning Commodore 3040 floppy drive. Smoke coming out of drive There is a real chance that yours too might emit magic smoke when you turn it on for the first time in decades. So before turning it on, be prepared to turn it off quickly, and … Continue reading Commodore PET floppy drive (3040) repair
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The highest leverage use of AI I have found: voice-first learning and productivity while away from your desk.
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Robot novellfika, pajbakning, Rock Orchestra och mer! För mycket att göra, för lite tid
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liza.io
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1 year ago
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eng
Förra helgen ordnade jag vår senaste novellfika, och temat var “Robotar”. En av novellerna var faktiskt min gamla favorit: Robot Dreams av Isaac Asimov. Den andra novellen var EPICAC av Kurt Vonnegut. Det var första gången jag läste EPICAC . Den handlar om en AI som blir kär i en mänsklig kvinna.
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The Story Where were you in February 2024? Here’s where I was: I worked at Hotjar. My son is about to be born and I headed out on parental…
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This week, I’ll continue on the same theme of my previous “Django Friday Tips” post. Essentially, we will keep addressing small annoyances that can surface while developing your multilingual project. The challenge for this article shows up when a given string from a package that is a dependency of your project is either: As we […]
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Template strings, also known as t-strings, have been officially accepted as a feature in Python 3.14, which will ship in October 2025. 🎉 I'm excited about t-strings because they make string processing safer and more flexible. In this post, I'll explain what t-strings are, why they were added to Python, and how you can use them. What are t-strings? Template strings are like f-strings with superpowers. They share the same familiar synta....
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Do you want to learn deeper concepts in Python? Would the accountability of scheduled group classes help you get past the basics? This week, five Real Python Intermediate Deep Dive workshop members discuss their experiences.
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I've been making some progress with steelcut, my Common Lisp template generator (does every Lisper write one of these as a rite of passage?), and I keep running into interesting problems which have been fun to solve. Whenever my code starts to accumulate any sort of complexity, I try to err on the side of writing more tests, even for "recreational" projects such as this one. The tests help make it safe to make changes, while also docu....
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I've been making some progress with steelcut, my Common Lisp template generator (does every Lisper write one of these as a rite of passage?), and I keep running into interesting problems which have been fun to solve. Whenever my code starts to accumulate any sort of complexity, I try to err on the side of writing more tests, even for "recreational" projects such as this one. The tests help make it safe to make changes, while also docu....
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I've been making some progress with steelcut, my Common Lisp template generator (does every Lisper write one of these as a rite of passage?), and I keep running into interesting problems which have been fun to solve. Whenever my code starts to accumulate any sort of complexity, I try to err on the side of writing more tests, even for "recreational" projects such as this one. The tests help make it safe to make changes, while also docu....
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Hitting a bug is no fun: maybe it interferes with your work or play, or maybe it means you have to dive down a debugging rabbit hole. Remotely debugging a bug someone else has found is even less fun… I’ve settled on using a shell script for sharing executable self-contained reproducers for issues I find in software libraries and developer tools, to get help faster. Sometimes, when I’ve found an issue, telling someone how to see it for t....
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One of my big goals for this year is to get back into playing tabletop RPGs (TTRPGs). I was running a 4th edition D&D campaign for years, and then life forced me to put it on hiatus. It took 4 years, but I’m glad to say that I’m finally getting that ball rolling. At the same time, my opinion of Wizards of the Coast soured greatly. Even from the sidelines, I was aware of the OGL crisis and the refresh of D&D 5th Edition and various cont..
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How to use generics to avoid duplications and make your code better
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domenicoluciani.com
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1 year ago
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eng
I recently worked on a project that had a lot of code duplication due to repeated implementations of the same interfaces. I quickly realized it was a great opportunity to refactor…
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Amazon S3 Tables was launched on December 3rd 2024, and provides you “storage that is optimized for tabular data such as daily purchase transactions, streaming sensor data, and...
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Amazon S3 Tables was launched on December 3rd 2024, and provides you “storage that is optimized for tabular data such as daily purchase transactions, streaming sensor data, and...
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We’re excited to announce the launch of the Heroku MCP Server, designed to bridge the gap between agent-driven development and Heroku’s AI PaaS. Having defined the platform experience for apps in the cloud, Heroku extends our developer and operator experience to AI capabilities. With the Heroku MCP Server, you can now expose Heroku’s robust platform […] The post Introducing the Official Heroku MCP Server appeared first on Heroku .
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We’ve just launched an AI Engineer role, and Pete’s written a post explaining why we’ve created the role which goes nicely with our blog series “Building with AI” that the team released the other week. With all the noise in the industry right now, you might think a role like ‘AI Engineering’ is for SEO or an attempt to ride the hype wave. That’s not why we did it, though: we created it because the work is materially different, and we ....
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Discord’s In-Game Overlay lets you join voice and video calls, see who’s talkin’, and stream your gameplay without ever having to alt-tab out of your current match! Learn how it works and how you can customize it to your liking.
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In my previous blog post, I explained what the Forwarded Headers Middleware does and why it matters. In this post, I will show you how to add it to your
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Prelude: Condorcet Voting It all started when some of my friends wanted to organize a hangout. Some of us have known each other for close to 20 years, and as we’ve grown older its been harder to find time to spend with one another, so when we do, we try to make it count. That’s why, when trying to decide on a fun activity, there’s a little bit of pressure to make sure it’s something we’re all on board with. This had an easy fix though. I..
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A blast from the past with the language TCL and a nice explanation why some bugs just don’t get fixed.
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A blast from the past with the language TCL and a nice explanation why some bugs just don’t get fixed.
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eBay Reduces the Time to List on Mobile With New Simplified Selling Tool, Now Featuring Magical Listing AI Technology
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innovation.ebayinc.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Introducing an easier, more streamlined experience that makes listing creation faster and more effortless for sellers in the U.S. and U.K.
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Elastic Security has a lot of generative AI capabilities, but two of them are now generally available for all Elastic users! Learn about Automatic Import and Attack Discovery.
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Snyk Security Solution Now Integrated into Google Cloud's Gemini Code Assist
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snyk.io
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1 year ago
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eng
Secure AI coding with Snyk and Google Gemini. Learn how Snyk Code’s SAST integrates with Gemini Code Assist for seamless, secure development workflows.
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There I was, sitting in a Project Management class, watching my professor demonstrate Microsoft Project; the same software I had just spent my summer adding features to. Some education happens in classrooms; the best happens in the wild.” One of the strange things of college, is that before I started, I already had worked for some time in the field, as well as had some coding for some years before I got in.
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Overclocking dbt: Discord's Custom Solution in Processing Petabytes of Data
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discord.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Explore how Discord supercharged dbt with a tailored solution designed for performance, developer productivity, and data quality.
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There I was, sitting in a Project Management class, watching my professor demonstrate Microsoft Project; the same software I had just spent my summer adding features to. Some education happens in classrooms; the best happens in the wild.” One of the strange things of college, is that before I started, I already had worked for some time in the field, as well as had some coding for some years before I got in.
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Finally, after many months of wanting to do it, I made it: I moved my Umami instance from a VPS with Docker on DigitalOcean to a pod on PikaPods. Introducing Umami is a great privacy-respecting analytics service that can be self-hosted, lightweight, and detailed enough for me. PikaPods , on the other hand, is a great service that allows you to create pods (like Docker containers) with many open-source applications, at a very low pri..
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Finally, after many months of wanting to do it, I made it: I moved my Umami instance from a VPS with Docker on DigitalOcean to a pod on PikaPods. Introducing Umami is a great privacy-respecting analytics service that can be self-hosted, lightweight, and detailed enough for me. PikaPods , on the other hand, is a great service that allows you to create pods (like Docker containers) with many open-source applications, at a very low pri..
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