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Welcome to issue 157 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic." - Grady Booch

Reading List

All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs
The author of this post discusses some of the challenges of building products with large language models (LLMs). He argues that LLMs should be treated as engines for features, rather than as products themselves. He also discusses the importance of making sure that everything done with an LLM today is non-destructive and undoable, and that it doesn't touch user data.

The HTTP QUERY Method
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.

How Server Driven UI is Helping Frontend Engineers Scale Impact
Server-driven UI (SDUI) is an alternative approach to building UI that eliminates the need for client-side logic by fetching view models instead of domain models. This allows Robinhood to make UI changes without modifying client-side code and having to re-release their apps. Additionally, SDUI promotes the reuse of core design system components across platforms and features, which allows Robinhood to build more with less engineering time.

Comprehensive Rust
This is a three day Rust course developed by the Android team. The course covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling. It also includes Android-specific content on the last day.

How DoorDash uses XcodeGen to eliminate project merge conflicts
Explore how DoorDash leverages XcodeGen to improve efficiency in large scale iOS development. Discover how XcodeGen helps manage xcodeproj merge conflicts, facilitates project refactoring, and improves team collaboration in complex projects. Learn from real-world experiences of adopting SwiftUI and transitioning from Cocoapods to SPM. The post delves into benefits, drawbacks, and the remarkable impact of XcodeGen on development velocity and scalability in a challenging app development environment.

Set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11
Learn about the new Dev Drive storage available to improve file system performance for development scenarios using the ReFS volume format, including how to set it up, designate trust to use performance mode for Microsoft Defender Antivirus, customized filters, and FAQs.

2023 State of Data + AI
This report provides insights into the evolving data landscape, highlighting the increasing importance of AI and machine learning and the challenges organizations face in harnessing the power of data for innovation and growth.

Watch and Listen

State of GPT
Learn about the training pipeline of GPT assistants like ChatGPT, from tokenization to pretraining, supervised finetuning, and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Dive deeper into practical techniques and mental models for the effective use of these models, including prompting strategies, finetuning, the rapidly growing ecosystem of tools, and their future extensions.

Build AI Apps with ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4
This course will teach you how to build AI-powered apps with the ChatGPT, Dall-E and GPT-4 APIs.

Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
In this talk, Rich Harris discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using frameworks for web development. He argues that frameworks can be helpful for large projects, but they can also be restrictive and difficult to learn. He also discusses the importance of using the right tool for the job, and he encourages developers to experiment with different approaches.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

DocBase
DocBase is a free & open-source alternative to DocSend, which allows you to securely share documents & track engagement in real-time.

mods
AI on the command line.

Rio
A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator powered by WebGPU, focusing to run in desktops and browsers.

DeviceScript
TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices.

Javy
A JavaScript to Webassembly toolchain.

dbus-example
A Linux exercise in IPC with D-Bus using C, Python, Java and PHP.

Dittofeed
The first open-source customer engagement platform built for devs.

VanJS
The Smallest Reactive UI Framework in the World.

qr-designer
QR designer web app with a novel method of designing qr codes that does not take advantage of error correction

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