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The new CSS Anchor Positioning API allows native positioning of elements relative to anchors you define. You can set up anchors implicitly or explicitly and then position other elements relative to them using the anchor() function. The API also allows for centering elements with anchor-center, anchoring to multiple elements, positioning with inset-area, and sizing elements with anchor-size().
This is a comprehensive collection of ideas that helps dev work with LLMs better in production. For example, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is great at improving LLM performance and is preferred over fine-tuning for adding new knowledge to a model's context. There are tips on prompting models better, such as using JSON or XML to structure inputs and outputs. There are also guidelines on evaluating and monitoring LLM I/O properly in areas where LLMs are in a production-level pipeline.
Dolt, a version controlled database, uses cryptographic checksums to address data blocks. While this might lead to potential collisions where different data blocks have the same checksum, the chance of collision is extremely low due to the combo of SHA-512, a strong hash function, and a 20-byte key, which provides a collision resistance of 2^80. This means that even with billions of objects stored, the probability of a collision is small and negligible.
Redirecting HTTP API calls to HTTPS can mask errors and expose sensitive data, so it's better to disable HTTP interfaces or return errors for unencrypted requests. Many well-known APIs still redirect HTTP to HTTPS, but some have adopted the fail-fast approach, returning errors for unencrypted calls. API credentials sent over unencrypted connections should be considered compromised and automatically revoked.
The disappointment frontier is the gap between a team's expectations and reality. This gap can grow when managers shield their teams from reality or overpromise on deliverables. Managing disappointment is a core leadership skill, so great managers acknowledge the disappointment frontier and actively work to shrink it.
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Tired of coding forms? With SurveyJS UI components [9], you can generate and style dynamic JSON-based forms of any complexity right in your JavaScript application with no need for manual coding.
OpenKoda is a development platform that makes it easier to build business apps and internal tools. It comes with pre-built functionalities and out-of-the-box features. OpenKoda supports common technologies like Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, Postgres, and HTML.
RAGapp is a way to use RAG in your own apps. Its configuration is similar to OpenAI's custom GPTs, but it's deployable in your own cloud infrastructure using Docker and whatever LLM you prefer.
This is a NestJS boilerplate that supports social sign-in, any database, file uploads, admin and user roles, Docker, CI, and more.
PostHog prioritizes hiring and retaining "cracked" engineers who are self-motivated and optimistic. The key to motivating and managing cracked engineers properly is to create an environment where they can collaborate with like-minded individuals, not have to deal with unnecessary bureaucracy, and can just focus on the work and the vision.
Llama3-V is an open-source multimodal model created by Stanford ML researchers that's able to keep up with GPT4-Vision. The researchers accomplished this by combining the language capabilities of Llama 3 with a vision encoder from SigLIP, using a projection block for alignment, and prepending image tokens to textual tokens.
When onboarding, create a clear 30/60/90-day plan to set expectations and goals, network a lot, and pair with an onboarding mentor if possible.
A very basic Spotify clone would probably take a few months to build, but actually building “all of Spotify” would take decades.
A library of effects that can be installed into your terminal.
Companies may not have old source code anymore or it may be unclear who actually owns the source code and not worth a company's time to figure it out.