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GRAVITY BATTERIES IN ABANDONED MINES COULD POWER THE WHOLE PLANET

GIT-SIM

SRE CHECKLIST

TIKTOK CONFIRMS THAT ITS OWN EMPLOYEES CAN DECIDE WHAT GOES VIRAL

IS AI THE NEW CRYPTO?

JETS

Jets is a Ruby Serverless Framework that includes everything required to build an application and deploy on AWS Lambda.

SENT TO STAFF

TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE RELIABILITY

SCRIPT KIT

Script Kit makes it easy to create and run scripts that solve daily problems.

JOB HUNTING IN 2022

TWITTER IS DOWN TO FEWER THAN 550 FULL-TIME ENGINEERS

NETFLIX FOUNDER REED HASTINGS STEPS DOWN AS CO-CEO

THREE 'PRO' FEATURES

NEXT UP FOR CRISPR: GENE EDITING FOR THE MASSES?

Advances in CRISPR technology may soon make it possible for a vaccine that provides lifelong protection against heart disease. New forms of the technology, like prime editing, are broadening the scope of gene-editing treatments. They can be used to target diseases that aren't caused by rogue genes. An approach currently in testing to lower blood cholesterol could one day be used to protect people from high blood pressure and diabetes.

CHINA'S NEW HYPERLOOP TRAIN COMPLETES FIRST TEST RUNS SUCCESSFULLY

NEURAL NETWORKS: ZERO TO HERO

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero is a guide to building neural networks from scratch in code. It assumes readers have a solid programming background in Python and know intro-level math. The course covers backpropagation and training, implementing various models, diagnostic tools and visualizations, GPT, and more.

ODIGOS

Odigos is an observability control plane. It can generate distributed traces instantly for any application without code changes. Odigos can automatically detect programming languages and instrument them accordingly. It auto-scales collectors based on application usage, so there is no need to deploy or configure complex pipelines.

THE ERA OF HAPPY TECH WORKERS IS OVER

The perks of working at a Silicon Valley firm are disappearing and unlikely to return. The current macroeconomic environment is forcing tech companies to optimize more for profit than growth. There were over 150,000 job cuts in 2022 and more are set for this year. The past few decades had managers fighting for talent, but now they are taking back control from employees. Despite this change, almost 80% of recently laid-off workers have been able to find employment within three months of being let go.

THE FACEBOOK PORTAL DIED. THIS IS HOW IT ALMOST LIVED

20 THINGS I’VE LEARNED IN MY 20 YEARS AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER

CYBER-CRIME GANGS' EARNINGS SLIDE AS VICTIMS REFUSE TO PAY

DEEP LEARNING TUNING PLAYBOOK

TWITTER’S NEW DEVELOPER TERMS BAN THIRD-PARTY CLIENTS

A FRAMEWORK FOR PRIORITIZING TECH DEBT

THE GOLDEN ERA OF BEING AN OPEN STARTUP IS GONE

CHATGPT WILL BE COMING TO OUR API

ChatGPT will be available soon on OpenAI's API and Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service. OpenAI has updated ChatGPT based on feedback from the research preview. A link for the ChatGPT API waitlist is available.

OF CORES

3D-PRINTED EAR

GIT SECURITY VULNERABILITIES ANNOUNCED

GLUON

Gluon is a framework for creating desktop apps from websites using system installed browsers and NodeJS. It supports Chromium and Firefox based browsers as the frontend. Gluon features fast build times and tiny bundle sizes. It works on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

HOME, FOCUSED ON FOOD

EXPLORING NEW AREAS

PURE.CSS

This website contains a set of small CSS modules that can be used in any web project.

THE ART OF KNOWING WHEN TO QUIT

MICROSOFT SET TO LAY OFF THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES TOMORROW

MEETINGS FOR AN EFFECTIVE ENG ORGANIZATION

Many meetings are bad, but they can be an exceptionally valuable part of an organization if they are done correctly.

CLEANLAB

cleanlab is a package that automatically detects problems in a machine learning dataset and provides clean labels for training and flagging errors in data.

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