When we develop user-facing applications that are powered by LLMs, we're taking on a big risk that the LLM may produce output that is unsafe in some way - like responses that encourage violence, hate speech, or self-harm. How can we be confident that a troll won't get our app to say something horrid...

Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.

Ahh, @isolated(any). It’s an attribute of contradictions. You might see it a lot, but it’s ok to ignore it. You don’t need to use it, but I think it should be used more. It must always take an argument, but that argument cannot vary. Confusing? Definitely. But we’ll get to it all. To understand why ...

As a leader in computer performance I've been asked by companies about how (and why) to form a performance engineering team, and as this is broadly useful I'll share my advice here. Large tech companies in the US hire performance engineers (under that or other titles) to ensure that infrastructure c...

Here's how to get image dimensions from the terminal.It doesn't take a lot. You have a few tools to choose from. Here's the command plus the output of 3:exiftoolexiftool resources/public/heroes/balloons.webp ExifTool Version Number : 12.40 File Name : balloons.webp Directory : resources/public/heroe...

The most abused principle in dysfunctional organizations is “Disagree and Commit”. In Don’t Tell Engineers What to Do I said that “telling people what to do, especially if they are in your direct reporting chain, must not be mistaken for “Disagree and Commit”. So, what is a healthy “Disagree and Com...

In this article, we’ll explore the journey of creating and improving a conversational form-filling system using Large Language Models (LLMs…

Find out what the MapTiler Team did at the FOSS4G Europe 2025 conference in Mostar.

We’re very excited to announce that app.build is launching a web interface that builds and deploys React, Laravel or FastAPI applications with zero configuration required! Just visit the website, type your prompt, and we’ll get your app built and deployed: This makes the experience of trying app.bui...

FlashList v2 is a complete rewrite, delivering faster load times, improved scrolling performance, and precise rendering without requiring item size estimates. It powers thousands of lists in the Shopify mobile app and is now production-ready.

Over the past few months, we’ve seen Warp users push the boundaries of agentic development: launching over 2 million agents per day and writing more than 100 million lines of code each week using the #1 coding agent. From debugging massive monorepos to running complex multi-agent workflows, develope...

Drag and drop your vector geodata (up to 1 GB) into MapTiler to get it immediately ready for publishing online.

It’s that time of year again! The first week of August means my annual trip to the desert for “Security Summer Camp”—the whirlwind of BSides Las Vegas, Black Hat, and DEF CON. It’s always an exhausting but amazing week, and I can’t wait to dive in, catch up with everyone, and talk about what I’ve be...

A famous example where telling Engineers what to do backfired was the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Engineers at Morton Thiokol, the contractor responsible for the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters, warned NASA management that the O-rings in the boosters could fail in cold weather. The ni...

Our global database of address points is continually expanding with new data from various sources—especially governmental and other public datasets.

Let’s get Claude Code to connect to Google Sheets. We’ll use this Google Sample Spreadsheet. Go to the Google Cloud Console, create a new project, and enable the Google Sheets API on it. Install the Google Cloud CLI. brew install google-cloud-sdk Choose the newly created project on the command line....

Here's how to convert a Google.Protobuf.Timestamp to DateTime in Elixir.Convert your DateTime to seconds using DateTime.to_unix, then set that as the seconds field on the Timestamp struct.Utility and a light dinner to follow:defmodule MyApp.Common.DateTime do def google_timestamp(datetime) do if dat...

At Laracon 2025, we just demoed a new way to build Laravel apps: by writing a prompt! app.build is an open-source reference architecture for agent codegen, able to generate full-stack web apps from natural language. It handles everything from scaffolding the project to writing tests, deploying to th...

In my previous blog post I described some behaviour of C# record types which was unexpected to me, though entirely correct according to the documentation. This is a follow-up post to that one, so if you haven’t read that one yet, please do so – I won’t go over all the same ground. Is this … Continue...

It’s not only hype: developers are working with AI every day – both using new AI-powered tools and building their own. At Neon, we’re seeing Postgres widely used in three AI workflows:  Vector search with pgvector Many AI applications rely on vector embeddings for semantic search, RAG pipelines and ...

As third-party platforms like DoorDash and Uber Eats capture more of the restaurant market, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are losing direct customer relationships. Two industry leaders discuss how to partner with a food-delivery app to strengthen brand loyalty and increase sales.