Daily Reading List – January 3, 2024 (#231)

Are folks showing back up at your workplace? Today felt like a “real” workday after yesterday’s quiet start. I still haven’t gotten all the way through my holiday backlog of items to read, and you’re seeing some of those below.

[blog] Gemini Function Calling. LLMs don’t have all the answers. Shocking, I know. But that’s why this “function calling” technique is pretty cool. Devs give external functions or APIs to the model, and it can return those to the caller when it doesn’t have the answer.

[blog] The Power of Visiontypes. Just seeing what’s possible can spark all sorts of ideas for where to go next. Marty looks at prototypes of product vision, and where the real work begins.

[article] Developer Productivity in 2024: New Metrics, More GenAI. This is a good look at the discussion about “developer productivity” that fired up last year, and what 2024 may hold.

[blog] Visualize and Inspect Workflows Executions. It seems that we all clamor for higher order software abstractions, but then complain when those abstractions are too opaque to know what’s going on inside. Workflow engines can be opaque, and I’m glad we’re now showing you more of what’s happening.

[article] Introduction to the Node.js reference architecture: Wrapping up. This long-running series of posts from Red Hat wraps up. Take a look if you’re building Node apps.

[article] AI vendors promised indemnification against lawsuits. The details are messy. We’re in new territory here, and Tom explains why vendor promises don’t necessarily protect you.

[article] InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends 2023. Good panel discussion here (with transcript) featuring folks who know this industry.

[blog] My 2024 technical writing trends and predictions. Lots of AI considerations here, which apply to many additional professions besides tech writing.

[article] 2024 Predictions by JavaScript Frontend Framework Maintainers. What’s coming up for the biggest frontend JavaScript frameworks? This post highlights upcoming features.

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