tl;dr in tech - Issue #73
By: Joe Karlsson
How to Get Started with Home Assistant in 2023 🏡 - Joe Karlsson
tl;dr: I’ve got you covered with a beginner’s guide to Home Assistant in 2023. Say goodbye to chaos and hello to smart home automation bliss. Get the lowdown on installation, configuration, and integration with other devices. Your home just got a whole lot smarter! 🤖🏠
Code With Swearing Is Better Code 😈 - Jamie Zawinski
tl;dr: You heard it here first, folks! Swearing in your code actually improves its quality. Who knew?! Next time your manager tells you to keep it clean, just remind them that a little profanity goes a long way in achieving programming excellence. 💩💻
5 Tips To Creating A (Good) Pull Request 🚀 - Danijela Vrzan
tl;dr: The secret sauce to a perfect pull request is short and sweet. Add details, screenshots, and in-line comments. Assign reviewers, and tell your teammates it’s ready. Boom! PR magic. 🧙♀️
What Is ChatGPT Doing… and Why Does It Work? 🤖 - Stephen Wolfram
tl;dr: ChatGPT is all the rage, but how the heck does it work? Stephen Wolfram breaks down the magic behind this AI wizard, without diving too deep into the engineering weeds. Great news for all you non-engineer readers out there! 🧪
10 Web Development Trends In 2023 🌐 - Robin Wieruch
tl;dr: What’s hot in web dev? Meta frameworks, application and rendering patterns, serverless at the edge, database renaissance, and JavaScript runtimes, to name a few. Stay ahead of the curve, and hop on these trends like a champ! 🏄♂️
Against Overwhelm 😌 - Paolo André
tl;dr: Engineering managers, are you drowning and feeling overwhelmed? Take a deep breath and follow Paolo’s advice on setting goals, auditing your energy, focusing on leverage, designing your ideal week, and giving each task your full attention. Zen out, my friends! 🧘♀️
Content Delivery Network (CDN): Explained In Simple Words 🌍 - Animesh Gaitonde
tl;dr: CDN, WTF? Animesh gives you the lowdown on what a CDN is, why it’s necessary, and how it makes your website as speedy as a cheetah. 🐆
Big Data Is Dead 💀 - Jordan Tigani
tl;dr: RIP, Big Data. It’s time to stop worrying about data size and start focusing on how we can use it to make better decisions. Don’t let the hand-drawn graphs fool you - this post is legit. 📉
🌟 Cool GitHub Repos
- AI Commits - A CLI that writes your git commit messages for you with AI. Never write a commit message again.
- Pandas - The Pandas library is a must-have for any data enthusiast. It provides high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for Python. Think of it as Excel on steroids! 🐼
- Apache Arrow - Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It provides a standard way to represent and manipulate data in different languages and accelerates analytical processing by minimizing data serialization and deserialization.
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