The Daily Index — Thursday, May 30, 2024 · TLDR Index

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REMOVING AD TRACKERS AND COOKIES - THE TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE

Sentry recently removed non-essential cookies and trackers from its public websites. It identified cookies using Chrome's developer console and specialized scanners while using Content-Security-Policy (CSP) reporting for a comprehensive overview. To maintain a cookieless environment, Sentry implemented CSP with strict rules and continuous monitoring using custom scripts and a cookie scanner.

blog.sentry.io · 18 min

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WINTERJS VS. BUN: COMPARING JAVASCRIPT RUNTIMES

WinterJS is a new high-speed JavaScript runtime built with Rust and the SpiderMonkey engine. While Bun has more comprehensive toolkit features, WinterJS focuses more on speed and WinterCG compliance, but lacks Windows and TypeScript support. While initial performance tests favor Bun, WinterJS shows potential when it is run natively.

blog.logrocket.com · 6 min

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HOW I CONVINCED MY MANAGER TO SUPPORT MY PROMOTION TO SENIOR

This author applied for a promotion to Senior Software Engineer at Google after being encouraged by her mentor. She presented a strong self-assessment to her manager, who initially planned to delay her promotion. She was promoted successfully thanks to her self-advocacy and support from her manager.

thecaringtechie.com · 4 min

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4 SOFTWARE DESIGN PRINCIPLES I LEARNED THE HARD WAY

This article discusses software engineering principles for building reliable software. Avoid premature abstraction with the PRY principle (“Please Repeat Yourself”). Minimize the use of mocks in testing, using a single source of truth for data if possible, and reduce mutable state.

read.engineerscodex.com · 5 min

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TRAINING IS NOT THE SAME AS CHATTING: CHATGPT AND OTHER LLMS DON'T REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU SAY

A common misconception about LLMs like ChatGPT is that they learn and memorize everything said to them during conversations. This is inaccurate as these models function as stateless functions, processing each conversation independently without retaining memory of previous interactions. Features like ChatGPT's "memory" are actually prompting tricks that insert relevant information into the context of ongoing conversations.

simonwillison.net · 8 min

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INDEXING ALL OF WIKIPEDIA, ON A LAPTOP

Cohere released a dataset containing all of Wikipedia, making it practical to create a semantic, vector-based index of Wikipedia on a laptop. This developer was able to index the entire database on a laptop by making sure they had enough free disk space and RAM and disabling swap. They used an indexing library that supported indexing larger-than-memory datasets by compressing vectors.

foojay.io · 8 min

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I SOLD TINYPILOT, MY FIRST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

This former Google software engineer sold his company, TinyPilot, for $600k after four years of building it. He decided to sell because he wanted to focus on coding and starting a family. The company grew from $0 to $1M+ of annual revenue over 4 years.

mtlynch.io · 16 min

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DUCKDB DOESN'T NEED DATA TO BE A DATABASE

DuckDB is a database that can create virtual tables that reference data stored elsewhere, making it easier to share and query large datasets while remaining adaptable to changes in the underlying data.

nikolasgoebel.com · 3 min