Category: General
The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism
Greetings everyone! You might have noticed that it’s September and I don’t have the next version of Logic for Programmers ready. As penance, here’s ten free...
Read moreLinux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”. Linux Mint 22.2 is a long term support release which will be supported...
Read moreXO Ruby is hitting the road
Jim Remsik has lived on the bleeding edge (but also the heart’s center) of the Ruby world for decades. This fall, he’s organizing six (yes, SIX)...
Read moreNext.js is infuriating
Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Huon Wilson describes the usefulness of “Copy as cURL”, Herman...
Read moreFresh 2.0 Graduates to Beta, Adds Vite Support
Fresh 2.0 beta introduces optional Vite integration – with hot reloading, faster boot times, seamless React aliasing, and the full Vite plugin ecosystem
Read moreWhat exactly does word2vec learn?
What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact...
Read moreAction absorbs anxiety
Arun Gupta, now a “free agent” after his surprise exit from Intel, joins us to discuss how he’s dealing with his first job hunt since the...
Read moreSome thoughts on LLMs and Software Development
I’m about to head away from looking after this site for a few weeks (part vacation, part work stuff). As I contemplate some weeks away from...
Read moreFrom Black Box to Blueprint
A common enterprise problem: crucial legacy systems become “black boxes”—key to operations but opaque and risky to touch. Thiyagu Palanisamy and Chandirasekar Thiagarajan worked with a...
Read moreLogical Duals in Software Engineering
(Last week’s newsletter took too long and I’m way behind on Logic for Programmers revisions so short one this time.1) In classical logic, two operators F/G...
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