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Generative AI – The Power and the Glory

#llms #sustainability | Michael Liebreich's epic report for BloombergNEF on the current state of play with regards to generative AI, energy usage and data center growth. I learned *so much* from reading this. …

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A list of new(ish) command line tools

#cli | A list of new(ish) command line tools

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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking – charity.wtf

#business-planning | I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine doesn’t run that way. If…

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Introduction - Just Programmer's Manual

#cli #programming | just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands - alternative to make

Alternative to make

Good tips here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351101

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Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

#llms | A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

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Software Design is Knowledge Building | olano.dev

#programming | The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.

https://lobste.rs/s/33rhfe/software_design_is_knowledge_building

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Objective-See: Tools

#macos | Free, open-source tools to protect your Mac

excellent macos security apps including Lulu - little snitch alternative.

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Cognitive load is what matters

#programming | There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42489645

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How to create Windows 11 bootable USB to bypass requirements with Rufus - Pureinfotech

#windows | To create a bootable USB to install Windows 11 bypassing system requirements use the Rufus extended option. Here's how.

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rachelbythebay: Atom feed info

#rss

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On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert's writings

#programming | Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.

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My approach to running a link blog

#blogging #miniflux | I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

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Solving renewable energy’s sticky storage problem - Ars Technica

#sustainability | When the Sun doesn’t shine and the wind is calm, humankind still needs power.

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Web Components Demystified online course | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer

#course #web-components | A comprehensive, premium course about building dynamic, fast, resilient apps with standard web components.

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How fit are you? 11 ways to easily test your strength, balance and mobility – and make them all better | Fitness | The Guardian

#fitness | Can you touch your toes, get up from a chair using just one leg, hold a plank for 30 seconds? If you want to take care of your body, the first step is to take stock of it

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Simon Willison on explorables

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BetterMouse – Comprehensive mouse utility for macOS

#macos | What is it? It's a macOS utility app that gives you smooth mouse scrolling, cursor speed control, and powerful mouse/keyboard bindings. It aims to replace bulky, intrusive and resource-hungry mouse drivers like Logitech Options. It's feature-rich, lightweight, efficiency-optimized, and most importantly, privacy-safe. We're trying to meet all your 3rd-party mouse/keyboard needs on macOS. Screenshots Features…

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AI as a tool for teaching critical thinking: a case study | Tim Hayward

#llms | As I prepare materials for a new university course on Propaganda and Censorship in Democracies, I am working on exercises intended to stretch - and hopefully fascinate - students. In this I am being assisted by Claude AI which acts as an unflaggingly obliging soundboard for ideas, whether in the form of inchoate hunches or…

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Air pollution: Wood burners more polluting than traffic - Birmingham research

#health | Birmingham researchers say they have found wood burning at home is more polluting than traffic.

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Keeping Rails cool: the modern frontend toolkit—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

#rails #svelte #web-dev | We advocate and build for Rails startups, and we know this tech gives teams a productivity and competitive edge. But we also know what startups struggle with the most: frontend. Let's share our silver toolkit for dealing with it!

some interesting approaches

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Music Theory Premium Course - Lightnote

#music-making | Interactive lessons for learning Music Theory.

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Outline – Team knowledge base & wiki

#business-planning #open-source | A modern team knowledge base for your internal documentation, product specs, support answers, meeting notes, onboarding, & more…

knowledge management / handbook tool use by Doist: https://x.com/amix3k/status/1866452820876251407

alternative to Confluence etc

looks really good:

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Together AI – The AI Acceleration Cloud - Fast Inference, Fine-Tuning & Training

#llms | Run and fine-tune generative AI models with easy-to-use APIs and highly scalable infrastructure. Train & deploy models at scale on our AI Acceleration Cloud and scalable GPU clusters. Optimize performance and cost.

cost effective way to try out various models (including open source ones) rather than buying an expensive computer!

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svelte-llm - Svelte 5 and SvelteKit Developer documentation in an LLM-ready format

#llms #svelte #sveltekit #zed

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Markup from hell - HTMHell

#html | A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

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An Introduction to css-doodle

#css | This is a rough transcription based on my notes for the sharing session I presented at the online Groove meetup in June. I've shared the slides before, but I think it's worth putting the content in writing. The full slide deck is accessible on GitHub.

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Graze.social - where people cultivate the best of Bluesky

#bluesky | Design, deploy, and grow feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

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‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property | Netherlands | The Guardian

#food #sustainability | In the suburb of Oosterwold, a living experiment in urban agriculture, the 5,000 inhabitants find different creative ways to fulfil the unique stipulation

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In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse ‹ Literary Hub

#reading | When the witty and wry English fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ in 1995, only 39% of Americans had access to a home computer. According to the Pew Research Center, the…

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Going Offline by Jeremy Keith

#book #local-first | Read the book for free.

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