So folks, what are the best starting packs around this platform?
Alan Garner
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Child at heart, dimwitted, insane, helpless, or somewhat psychotic
“If you lead engineers and believe culture is ‘soft,’ this book will disabuse you of that notion quickly. Psychological safety, learning, and collaboration aren’t perks, they are infrastructure. Ignore them and your systems will fail, slowly or catastrophically.” - @scott.hanselman.com
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Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch
I did a workshop titled “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch” at IITM/Paradox 2026, which kind of included some basic theory on how a transformer works, and then building a …
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Dead Poets Society (1989) Director: Peter Weir
A computer science professor writes an open letter of despair and encouragement about his field to his students: worth a read. ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/fore...
![To my students [00FD]
April 27, 2026Brent A. Yorgey
There have been times, especially this year, when I wonder despairingly what it is exactly that I am preparing you for. The software industry is going completely insane, not to mention the political climate. It feels almost unethical to train you as computer scientists only to send you out into a world where entry-level computing jobs are difficult to find; where intellectual property is not respected; where code quantity is valued over quality, and short-term profits over long-term sustainability; where technology is used to distract, extract, surveil, and kill, and designed to exploit some of our deepest cognitive biases and blind spots; where centuries of bias and discrimination are enshrined in systems trained on biased data; where scarce resources are consumed by profligate use of computing for uncertain benefits; where people are racing to create intelligent machines, but only in order to make them slaves.
I originally got into computing because of the beauty of ideas, the joy of creating, and the possibility of building tools to help people and foster human relationships. I still believe in those things, even though it seems like most of the industry does not. I'm writing this in the hope and knowledge that you believe in those things, too. There are things I want to say to you—things that are far more important than any content I might teach you, but things I'm never quite sure how or when to say in class. So I decided to write them here. I hope you will find something here that is helpful to reflect on, whether you are imminently going out into the world or continuing your studies.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fowxeimonpawlp4owiv24zjm/bafkreigrasx6iwwm7x52hq6yz5tayomupvbg6idqygpqfswiwsu7frvwjm)
Kubernetes turns 12 today!💙 Today, we're celebrating Kubernetes and everyone who has been part of its journey over the years. Thank you for helping shape the past 12 years and for building what's next. Happy Birthday, Kubernetes!🎉 #Kubernetes #CloudNative #OpenSource #CNCF
It’s mind-boggling to me that places use PR count as proxy for productivity. It’s just as useful as LOC - not entirely garbage, but mostly pointless as a metric, esp when devs know they are measured on it
Missing the era when one could buy a programrather than subscribe to it.
I'm tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI's answer.
It's interesting how LLMs have completely flipped how we interpret writing. What used to be considered good: large vocabulary, correct grammar, use of expressions, become trivial with LLMs. And now I just want to read something genuine with a real voice, typos and bad grammar included.