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Hey everyone, I'm looking to buy a new e-reader and am looking to crowd source some more recent opinions vs the similar threads from 2024 or earlier. The two biggest new questions …

This is a perfect example that I've often seen in practice. There's nothing blocking in this workflow at all, and no reason these changes cannot be made in independent changes. e.g…

This just reeks to me of bad practice. Why use this as opposed to breaking your change into smaller PRs and merging them individually behind a feature flag or similar? With this, y…

Super interesting, thanks! I didn't think about how this issue could easily point to a major improvement that could be made on the package manager level. Unfortunate that in Python…

A great point. However it's not a reasonable amount of infrastructure or overhead for many companies or an individual project in my opinion!

Here's a quick blog post I wrote about the merit of git worktrees. Any thoughts or feedback let me know!

Like many of you, I have spent more time trying out different applications in the todo list/knowledge management space without finding a solution that has stuck. I've tried aggress…

Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: Preferred Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Python (+ Frameworks), AWS, Linux, Docker, ... Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conorjflynn/…

SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany | Remote Preferred I am a software engineer specializing in Python backends, but have demonstrated ability using whatever technology necessary to bes…

Another interesting thing in this space is Traindown[1]. It's simply Markdown for your exercises. As an example for those who need convincing to go to a link, this could be a simpl…

How so? What disadvantages does having strings as a first class Type have?

Looks super cool! A few questions: 1) Can you get the actual code output or will this end up calling OpenAI each function call? 2) What latency does it add? What about token usage?…

1) Some general use cases: - Getting familiar with new APIs - Bouncing general knowledge questions off it - Having "discussions" to interact with it in a Socratic style - Giving so…

Thanks, I will look into llama.cpp today :) I don't have much interest in playing with the internals for now, but I generally like keeping my data personal and the services I use s…

I've accepted that LLMs are useful when taken with precautions. A few tools I've used recently have convinced me on this fact. Alongside this, I've heard first-hand anecdotal exper…

https://blog.randombits.host Try to write monthly about technical projects I've managed to complete. I'm beginning to mix it up to include more recently musings on non-technical to…

Hey everyone, this is a post I've been working on the past few months about setting up my own monitoring stack with Grafana for my home server. I'd love your feedback on how this p…

I presume it's related to how old the components are, not necessarily the console hardware itself. Seems like the main chip was released first in 2015

I love the form factor here. A few questions: 1) Have you considered how this could be made more mobile friendly? Most places I could see myself using a device like this, I wouldn'…