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Make a robot, repeat a pattern, and respond to a click Your first Python programs make pictures on a canvas. Learn calls, values, variables, and a loop before adding one click handler. You learn function calls · variables · loops … Read more

GitHub was built for a world where humans write code, organize it into repositories, and collaborate through branches, commits, issues, and pull requests. But the next generation of software is going to be built differently because it is going to … Read more

I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the buildprof demo Sometimes, builds are slow … Read more

TL;DR An AI software factory is five stages with a gate at each one. The agent is the cheap part. Stage What it decides Published example Intake Which work is worth starting Sentry’s Seer scores every incoming issue for actionability … Read more

I was planning to build an e-ink display when I came across the Xteink X3 online. Somewhere in the fine print, it said the thing was fully programmable. I was sold. When it arrived, I liked how flat it was. … Read more

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Contents Introduction: Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models Two families of generative AI algorithms are widely used today. For continuous data such as images or video, the state-of-the-art approach is based on diffusion models. For discrete data such as text or … Read more

Good engineers plan before they build. The workflow I grew up seeing: write an RFC describing the feature, split it into smaller issues, then build them, each issue often blocking the next. The structure of the work was locked in … Read more

Several times in my life I’ve tried to break in with a new social group. I ran into a cool community I wanted to join, or I moved to a new city and wanted to make friends there, or I … Read more