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I’m putting Better Programming on hiatus to make room for other programming publications. I get that this is a big pivot given that we switched to a new editor recently. But things are changing at Medium and I think this will ultimately be a boon for everyone, authors, readers and publications. I would like to […]
Image by Author Using Python in a Jupyter notebook Many of you will know that every man and his dog are producing AI products or LLM’s and integrating them with their products. Not surprisingly AWS — the biggest cloud services provider — is also getting in on the act. What is bedrock? Its AI offering […]
Image by Author Following on from a story I wrote comparing the speed of Pandas and Polars libraries in terms of reading and writing data — from and to — a Postgres database I thought it might be interesting to do a similar comparison between Pandas and Psycopg2. If you need to get data from […]
Or, how scripting revolutionized my workflow Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash Imagine a time when factories were full of life, with gears turning and machines working together. It was a big change, like what’s happening today with computers. In the world of creating and managing software, we’re moving from doing things by hand to […]
Emotional Architecture in Software Design 14 min read · Nov 10, 2023 Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash Imagine sitting down at your desk to untangle a particularly complex piece of software code. Your eyes scan lines packed with logical operations and function calls. Somewhere in this intricate weave, a bug lurks, derailing the application’s […]
OpenAI’s backend converting messy unstructured data to structured data via functions OpenAI’s “Function Calling” might be the most groundbreaking yet under appreciated feature released by any software company… ever. Functions allow you to turn unstructured data into structured data. This might not sound all that groundbreaking but when you consider that 90% of data processing […]
Let’s dive a bit deeper into the heart of our WebAssembly integration by exploring the key segments of our Go-based WASM code. involves preparing and specifying our Go code to be compiled for a WebAssembly runtime. // go:build wasm// +build wasm These lines serve as directives to the Go compiler, signaling that the following code […]
Generated with DALL-E 3 Understanding the Fetch API can be challenging, particularly for those new to JavaScript’s unique approach to handling asynchronous operations. Among the many features of modern JavaScript, the Fetch API stands out for its ability to handle network requests elegantly. However, the syntax of chaining .then() methods can seem unusual at first […]
Recently, at Sovrn, we had an AI Hackathon where we were encouraged to experiment with anything related to machine learning. The Hackathon yielded some fantastic projects from across the company. Everything from SQL query generators to chatbots that can answer questions about our products and other incredible work. I thought this would be a great […]
There’s a problem with those thousands of jobs available for Full Stack Engineers or Developers on LinkedIn, like a unicorn, that person isn’t real. Insert spit-take, read it, then tell me what you think. Photo by Paul Bill on Unsplash There I said it, you might think this is a controversial or unpopular opinion but […]