Web Review, Week 2022-33
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-33.
Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning
There’s clearly a whole lot of such image generation systems emerging lately. Was only a question of time until an open source one appears. What’s interesting with this one is that it can run locally, you don’t need to query a server.
https://mixed-news.com/en/open-source-rival-for-openais-dall-e-runs-on-your-graphics-card/?amp=1
A Python-compatible statically typed language
Tags: tech, python, type-systems
Very early times but this could become interesting. Maybe worth keeping an eye on.
https://github.com/erg-lang/erg
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
Tags: tech, unix, tools
Big shout out to make, one of my favorites Unix tools. I like some of the ideas for improvements listed here.
https://matt-rickard.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-makefiles
SSH tips and tricks | Carlos Becker
Tags: tech, ssh
Neat little list of tips, indeed some are useful and I didn’t know about them.
https://carlosbecker.dev/posts/ssh-tips-and-tricks/
Code Smells Catalog
Tags: tech, programming, smells, craftsmanship
Very nice catalog! Looks like a useful reference.
https://luzkan.github.io/smells/
KPIs, Velocity, and Other Destructive Metrics
Tags: tech, metrics, business, product-management, productivity
Very good point of view about metrics and their use. We’re unfortunately very often measuring the wrong things or using them the wrong way.
https://holub.com/kpis-velocity-and-other-destructive-metrics/
Agile Projects Have Become Waterfall Projects With Sprints | by Ben “The Hosk” Hosking | Aug, 2022 | ITNEXT
Tags: tech, agile, project-management
This is unfortunately very much true. Was only a matter of time I guess. The “grass is greener” effect is indeed the most likely reason.
https://itnext.io/agile-projects-have-become-waterfall-projects-with-sprints-536141801856
Taking notes in interviews - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Tags: hr, interviews
OK, that’s an interesting approach to the note taking during interviews. I’m a bit far from that which is fine… and still that gives me ideas for improvements.
https://jacobian.org/2022/aug/12/interview-notes/
Bye for now!