Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-33.


Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning

There’s clearly a whole lot of such image generation systems emerging lately. Was only a question of time until an open source one appears. What’s interesting with this one is that it can run locally, you don’t need to query a server.

https://mixed-news.com/en/open-source-rival-for-openais-dall-e-runs-on-your-graphics-card/?amp=1


A Python-compatible statically typed language

Tags: tech, python, type-systems

Very early times but this could become interesting. Maybe worth keeping an eye on.

https://github.com/erg-lang/erg


The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles

Tags: tech, unix, tools

Big shout out to make, one of my favorites Unix tools. I like some of the ideas for improvements listed here.

https://matt-rickard.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-makefiles


SSH tips and tricks | Carlos Becker

Tags: tech, ssh

Neat little list of tips, indeed some are useful and I didn’t know about them.

https://carlosbecker.dev/posts/ssh-tips-and-tricks/


Code Smells Catalog

Tags: tech, programming, smells, craftsmanship

Very nice catalog! Looks like a useful reference.

https://luzkan.github.io/smells/


KPIs, Velocity, and Other Destructive Metrics

Tags: tech, metrics, business, product-management, productivity

Very good point of view about metrics and their use. We’re unfortunately very often measuring the wrong things or using them the wrong way.

https://holub.com/kpis-velocity-and-other-destructive-metrics/


Agile Projects Have Become Waterfall Projects With Sprints | by Ben “The Hosk” Hosking | Aug, 2022 | ITNEXT

Tags: tech, agile, project-management

This is unfortunately very much true. Was only a matter of time I guess. The “grass is greener” effect is indeed the most likely reason.

https://itnext.io/agile-projects-have-become-waterfall-projects-with-sprints-536141801856


Taking notes in interviews - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Tags: hr, interviews

OK, that’s an interesting approach to the note taking during interviews. I’m a bit far from that which is fine… and still that gives me ideas for improvements.

https://jacobian.org/2022/aug/12/interview-notes/



Bye for now!