Flying home after a busy, inspiring week. I think you’ll enjoy a few of the items I came across today.
[blog] Semantic code search for Programming Idioms with LangChain4j and Vertex AI embedding models. Neat example of using AI to do a better search through code.
[article] DIY Kubernetes Is a Recipe for Mayhem. I don’t know. Maybe. You can certainly be successful running Kubernetes yourself, or in a single cloud. But there’s definitely value in having aspects of management centralized.
[article] How do protected blocks of time improve engineering outcomes? You get better results from engineers, and likely anyone, when you proactively block calendar spots for deep work.
[blog] Introducing PaliGemma 2: Powerful Vision-Language Models, Simple Fine-Tuning. This is a nice update to this open model. The Hugging Face post might be even better.
[blog] Kubernetes configuration linting tools. There’s no shortage of option for validating your Kubernetes config before they get applied to a cluster. Brian takes a look at the landscape.
[blog] Tech on the Toilet: Driving Software Excellence, One Bathroom Break at a Time. These one-pagers are a mainstay at the Google campuses, and you get a bit of a history lesson here.
[article] Rediscover the Joy of Early Web Development With XSLT. Goodness, I had flashbacks reading this. The amount of XSLT and XPath I’ve written is staggering. But I also haven’t touched it in 10+ years, so this was a fun reminder.
[article] OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro, which includes its o1 reasoning model. OpenAI is looking for the spotlight as competitors challenge them from all angles. They’ve got some great folks over there, so expect some cool offerings.
[blog] ¡Hola Mexico! Google Cloud region in Querétaro now open. Excellent, glad to see our regional expansion continues south of the border.
[blog] How Eventbrite Is Scaling Development with a Distributed Frontend Architecture. Facing delivery slowdowns because of a monolithic frontend? Check this out from Eventbrite on how they did a “vertical split frontend model.”
[blog] Introducing Interactive Chat. This is a cool feature in our experimental dev environment. Use this supercharged IDE (for free) with some useful AI interactivity.
[article] Nervous About Public Speaking? Here’s How to Use Notes Like a Pro. Even if you hate public speaking, avoid using a script. This article discusses how to use short notes instead.
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