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Regular readers will recognize my affinity for America’s Test Kitchen and their recipe-refining process. Their “testing recipes 100 different ways to give you the best one” approach sets you up for kitchen success like nobody’s business. Yet some of their previous books that forayed into other cultures have felt stilted and distant. They took a…
More than five years ago, I sat in yet another meeting listening to someone say, “You know what we really need? A gold layer for our data lakehouse.” Heads nodded around the table. Everyone agreed it was a smart idea. Obviously necessary. Then everyone went back to their desks and did nothing. The idea wasn’t…
Minnesota is the birthplace of the supercomputer, developed for code cracking during World War II. Tech giants of their day, including Cray Research and Control Data Corporation, were based in the Twin Cities. And while Al Gore is infamously misquoted as “inventing the internet,” humble Minnesota actually can claim a role with the University of…
When working with LLMs, agent workflows, or RAG pipelines, one question comes up repeatedly: How do we evaluate the model’s output in a consistent and reliable way? Generating text or reasoning chains is easy. Deciding whether the output is good is much harder. To see a practical open-source example of structured evaluation, here’s the project…
Looking for an Apple laptop with a bigger screen? You’re in luck, as the 15-inch MacBook Air with the M4 CPU is currently marked down by $200 on Amazon in a variety of configurations and colors, including the new Sky Blue finish. It’s a great fit for work or play, and only serious power users…
An incremental journey from Redux modules to intuitive async data management Years ago we adopted Redux to manage the client state, handle the local state, and control data fetching. More recently, we began transitioning to React Query. Redux is primarily designed as a synchronous state manager, while React Query specializes in managing the asynchronous state….
It is impossible to overstate just how big an impact Star Trek: The Next Generation had on an entire generation of kids growing up in the 1990s. I watched every episode with my mom. When I walked into my friend’s house after school, a gigantic cardboard cutout of virile, bald Captain Jean-Luc Picard greeted us…
Making your first open source contribution can feel overwhelming. Most developers want to contribute but don’t know where to start. This guide combines proven strategies with data-driven tools to help you find the right project and make your first contribution successfully. What’s Inside Why Your First Project Matters The biggest mistake beginners make is jumping…
Apparently, it’s always Friday at The Home Depot. Or at least, The Home Depot Black Friday deals have slipped all customary bounds of the calendar: Online deals have already started as of Wednesday, November 5, and will go all the way to December 3. This includes some very steep discounts on flagship tool brands like…
When using vite, you have a huge ecosystem of plugins to choose from. If you don’t already have a vite app Create one via: pnpm dlx ember-cli@latest new demo-terminal-logging-during-ember-browser-testing –pnpm cd demo-terminal-logging-during-ember-browser-testing Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode I found https://github.com/patak-dev/vite-plugin-terminal by Patak, one of the vite developers! Setting this plugin up an an ember…
