Developer productivity depends on flow: the state where engineers maintain focus, context and momentum. When issues are discovered late in the development process – after commits, code reviews or CI ...

Somtochi Onyekwere explains the architecture of Corrosion, a distributed system designed for low-latency state replication. She shares how Fly.io transitioned from Consul to a gossip-based SQLite ...

AI chatbots learn more about us with every interaction. They can therefore tease out patterns in our thinking. They're no substitute for a friend or therapist, though. "You're the kind of person who ...

While taking a standardized test at school when he was 10 years old, Osawese Agbonkonkon came across a question prompt that asked him to write his own story. That one question would give Agbonkonkon ...

If your AI outputs sound generic — your inputs probably are too. The best AI users aren’t tech wizards — they’re master communicators. And they’ve learned to speak robot. Like people, AI has its own ...

Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot component that works with the Shiny web framework and is compatible with R and ...

Prequel is a SQL query engine built in C#. The goal of this project is to demonstrate how query engines are built, and to bring a query engine to the .NET community. The project contains a ...

She first heard it in a seminary devotional during her high school years in Taylorsville, Utah, in the late 1990s. Ever since then, author and composer of the new hymn “Look Unto Christ” from “Hymns — ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The other week, I was reading an email I ...