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Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What” - Aggressively Paraphrasing Me

One dev rewired their Slack setup by **engagement frequency**—not subject. Channels got sorted into tiers like “Read Now” and “Read Hourly,” cutting through noise and saving brainpower. It riffs off the **Eisenhower Matrix**, letting priorities shift with projects, not burn people out... read more  

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Uncommon Uses of Common Python Standard Library Functions

A fresh guide gives old Python friends a second look—turns out, tools like **itertools.groupby**, **zip**, **bisect**, and **heapq** aren’t just standard; they’re slick solutions to real problems. Think run-length encoding, matrix transposes, or fast, sorted inserts without bringing in another depen.. read more  

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Privacy for subdomains: the solution

A two-container setup using **acme.sh** gets Let's Encrypt certs running on a Synology NAS—thanks, Docker. No built-in Certbot support? No problem. Cloudflare DNS API token handles auth. Scheduled tasks handle renewal... read more  

Privacy for subdomains: the solution
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Users Only Care About 20% of Your Application

Modern apps burst with features most people never touch. Users stick to their favorite 20%. The rest? Frustration, bloat, ignored edge cases. Tools like **VS Code**, **Slack**, and **Notion** nail it by staying lean at the core and letting users stack what they need. Extensions, plug-ins, integrati.. read more  

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Building a Resilient Data Platform with Write-Ahead Log at Netflix

Netflix faced challenges like data loss, system entropy, updates across partitions, and reliable retries. To address these, they built a generic Write-Ahead Log (WAL) system serving a variety of use cases like delayed queues, generic cross-region replication, and multi-partition mutations. WAL abstr.. read more  

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Implementing Vector Search from Scratch: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Search is a fundamental problem in computing, and vector search aims to match meanings rather than exact words. By converting queries and documents into numerical vectors and calculating similarity, vector search retrieves contextually relevant results. In this tutorial, a vector search system is bu.. read more  

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5 Free AI Courses from Hugging Face

Hugging Face just rolled out a sharp set of free AI courses. Real topics, real tools—think **AI agents, LLMs, diffusion models, deep RL**, and more. It’s hands-on from the jump, packed with frameworks like LangGraph, Diffusers, and Stable Baselines3. You don’t just read about models—you build ‘em i.. read more  

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Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels

NVIDIA Hopper packs serious architectural tricks. At the core: **Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA)**, **tensor cores**, and **swizzling**—the trio behind async, cache-friendly matmul kernels that flirt with peak throughput. But folks aren't stopping at cuBLAS. They're stacking new tactics: **warp-gro.. read more  

Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels
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The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants

A July 2025 METR trial dropped a twist: seasoned devs using Cursor with Claude 3.5/3.7 moved **19% slower** - while thinking they were **20% faster**. Chalk it up to AI-induced confidence inflation. Faros AI tracked over **10,000 developers**. More AI didn’t mean more done. It meant more juggling, .. read more  

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Building a Natural Language Interface for Apache Pinot with LLM Agents

MiQ plugged **Google’s Agent Development Kit** into their stack to spin up **LLM agents** that turn plain English into clean, validated SQL. These agents speak directly to **Apache Pinot**, firing off real-time queries without the usual parsing pain. Behind the scenes, it’s a slick handoff: NL2SQL .. read more  

Building a Natural Language Interface for Apache Pinot with LLM Agents
Gemini 3 is Google’s third-generation large language model family, designed to power advanced reasoning, multimodal understanding, and long-running agent workflows across consumer and enterprise products. It represents a major step forward in factual reliability, long-context comprehension, and tool-driven autonomy.

At its core, Gemini 3 emphasizes low hallucination rates, deep synthesis across large information spaces, and multi-step reasoning. Models in the Gemini 3 family are trained with scaled reinforcement learning for search and planning, enabling them to autonomously formulate queries, evaluate results, identify gaps, and iterate toward higher-quality outputs.

Gemini 3 powers advanced agents such as Gemini Deep Research, where it excels at producing well-structured, citation-rich reports by combining web data, uploaded documents, and proprietary sources. The model supports very large context windows, multimodal inputs (text, images, documents), and structured outputs like JSON, making it suitable for research, finance, science, and enterprise knowledge work.

Gemini 3 is available through Google’s AI platforms and APIs, including the Interactions API, and is being integrated across products such as Google Search, NotebookLM, Google Finance, and the Gemini app. It is positioned as Google’s most factual and research-capable model generation to date.