Daily Reading List – January 14, 2025 (#472)

I hit the wall by late afternoon, and had to keep working on something against my will. But now I’m glad I stuck with it. What do you do when that happens to you?

[paper] Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time. This might be a really big deal? This paper from Google Research talks about a successor to the Transformers architecture.

[article] Google Expands Gemini Code Assist with Support for Atlassian, GitHub, and GitLab. It’s great functionality that keeps you in the IDE instead of bouncing around so much.

[article] Getting exec buy-in for developer productivity initiatives. Good post. How can you speak in the language of your stakeholder to get them fired up about dev productivity?

[article] Mistral’s new Codestral code completion model races up third-party charts. I saw this model getting some good publicity. Looks good!

[article] Google Cloud could overtake Microsoft’s No. 2 cloud position this year. I care about this, but I don’t obsess about it. If we do the right things for customers, they’ll make their way over here.

[article] The Insidious Effects of Hurrying. Are you suffering from “hurry sickness”? Most of us probably are, but need to identify and mitigate for the sake of our health.

[blog] Angular 2025 Strategy. A lot of the web runs on Angular! It’s great to see a meaningful set of recent accomplishments, and aggressive plans for the year ahead.

[blog] Arrange Your Code to Communicate Data Flow. Short post, but an important practice for developers to consider in their code.

[blog] RAG Evaluation — A Step-by-Step Guide with DeepEval. If you’re doing retrieval augmented generation, you should have a process in place to evaluate your pipelines. Here are demos of two approaches.

[blog] Go 1.24 interactive tour. I wish all release notes were like this. Try out the new Go features in the browser.

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