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Finding more persuasive, less manipulative ways to give pull request feedback.

Geoffrey Moore: Understanding ChatGPT: A Triumph of Rhetoric [W]e need to stop thinking of ChatGPT as artificial intelligence. It creates the illusion of intelligence, but it has no semantic component. It is all form and no content. It is a like a spider that can spin an amazing web,

Today on Elixir Wizards, Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford are joined by Saša Jurić, distinguished developer, mentor, and author of Elixir in Action. They discuss the future of training and education in Elixir, challenges faced by new Elixir developers, Phoenix generators, peer mentorship, the emergence of types, and when it’s time to close the umbrella.

As demand surges, businesses need resilient data pipelines that deliver critical insight for real-time decision-making to users on demand.

Ajay Bhatt is a computer engineer who is widely recognized as one of the key inventors of the Universal Serial Bus (USB). His work has had a profound impact on the electronics industry in countless w

After a working in tech at several large companies over a couple of decades, I’ve observed some of the worst fallacies that cause damage to organizations. They don’t arise from malice, but fr…

Back in March I was fortunate to spend several days visiting Brussels, where I had a chance to attend a panel on “chat control”: the new content scanning regime being considered by the …

In this article, we explore Kafka with Protobuf & C#, including a demo for message production & consumption. See how to manage your schema using Confluent Schema Registry and Control Center.

How SaaS Pegasus—a codebase creator for Django projects—works under the hood.

Let's clear up some misconceptions surrounding EU privacy laws and look at why your privacy-friendly analytics is probably violating them.

It’s a common saying that data is king in our current tech landscape. And whether you believe it or not, this is actually the truth.

Hello Hackaday community! Im looking for any and all information on the early development of computers and the beginning of the internet, things like creation of programming and WWW. What was the foundation? What was tried and failed? Who was involved? How did one technology contribute to/develop into another? Im a nature nerd trying to navigate the world of technology, and I every time I discover something cool, I feel like I need to know a million other things that came before it to understand it. I've decided to try and understand computers, both hardware and software, by going chronologically. Like learning history chronologically, I realise this isn't the most efficient way to go about it, but Im ready to get crushed with information. I'd greatly appreciate some recommendations on where to get started! Please send any literature, project, company, or person that you think is relevant.

Just time for a few thoughts on software development’s grand follies.

Over the past few years, we’ve migrated our customers to new versions of the platform several times. At the same time, we were constantly making changes to the graphical interface. Naturally, we did everything we could to improve the usability of the...

Some of us love to manage day-to-day operations, but that isn't me

A brief overview of the formal specification landscape

Welcome to the age of hyper-connectivity, where Mr Fridge chats with Mr Toaster, who flirts with Mr Watch, who bickers with Mr Phone, who’s…

RedHat and Debian are decent options for server environments. They provide excellent stability and performance for enterprise-grade applications.

From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, this article looks at 5 exciting examples of machine learning in action.

What exactly is AI engineering? This brief guide covers the fundamental topics and skills driving the AI revolution.

Making the leap from collecting operational IoT data to IoT insights is not a trivial task -- and a lot of companies are struggling.

In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the lens, the magnet, the string, and the pump.

Some notes on the different patterns that may be present when people talk about event-driven architectures.