From a theoretical standpoint, the best reply provided by an LLM is obtained by always picking the token associated with the highest probability. This approach makes the LLM output deterministic, which is not a good property for a number of applications. For this reason, in order to balance LLMs cre...

Learn how to connect an Arduino GSM shield with cellular networks for bidirectional data streaming between devices without the need for WiFi.

Learn how to connect an Arduino GSM shield with cellular networks for bidirectional data streaming between devices without the need for WiFi.

On February 1st 2024, AWS will start charging for IPv4 addresses. This is a big deal for the internet, and we're here to help you prepare.

Learn how to use React Query in Next.js Client & Server Components for data fetching with Supabase.

I decided to expose myself more and more, I like to share my opinions and experiences (you can say reading this blog), and this time I decided to attend as a interviewee for a well known Podcast in Italy talking about something I've done for 3 months, are you curious about it?

Here's how to make a type-safe alternative to .filter(Boolean) in TypeScript.Boolean FilterIn JavaScript, there's a nice little short-hand for filtering non-nulls. If I have a sparse array:const arr = ['a', undefined, 'b', null, 'c']I can get rid of the nulls like this:arr.filter(Boolean).forEach(ch...

Here's how to catch errors thrown from inside a setTimeout callback.Uncaught ErrorErrors thrown within setTimeout are especially squirrely. This is because the callback function is asynchronously. Explained by Node docs:This will not work because the callback function passed to fs.readFile() is call...

Develop simple and scalable apps with a fast backend environment that supports popular JavaScript libraries. Websockets server tutorial

Develop simple and scalable apps with a fast backend environment that supports popular JavaScript libraries. Websockets server tutorial

PostgreSQL is a database that needs no introduction. Started as an open-source project out of UC Berkeley, it has evolved through decades of careful stewardship to become one of the world’s most relied on and beloved relational database management systems (RDBMS).  There will inevitably come a time ...

Do you have questions about PostgreSQL or Neon? We built a custom Neon and PostgreSQL OpenAI GPT expert to help you with your queries and projects. OpenAI’s GPT allows developers to create custom ChatGPT experiences to perform specific tasks or answer questions about a given topic.  This article wal...

Want to know how PostHog and LogRocket compare? If you remember nothing else, remember these two things: LogRocket is a frontend monitoring tool that…

“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? is a new book by Kent Beck. It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them), but it contains some deep … Continue reading →

One of jOOQ’s key features so far has always been to render pretty much exactly the SQL that users expect, without any surprises – unless some emulation is required to make a query work, of course. This means that while join elimination is a powerful feature of many RDBMS, it isn’t part of jOOQ’s fe...

My usual process for writing blog posts is more or less in two steps: 1. Think about what I want to say for weeks or months. No, I don’t spend weeks focusing on a blog post, the process is exactly reversed: I write blog posts about things that are so important to me to be in my mind for weeks. 2. Th...

A Rust object that survives program restart thanks to Rust allocators, systemd's file descriptor store, and syscall memfd_create.

Learn about our approach to connecting multiple nodes in Elixir using Postgres

Did you know that you can use MS Paint within your terminal? 🤯 textual-paint is a program that emulates MS Paint within your terminal. To try it out, install it via pip (a package manager for Python) using pip install textual-paint. Then, run the command textual-paint within your terminal. Check out...

Remember scrambling for notes, losing ideas to the ether, struggling to keep up with tasks, and drowning in a sea of information? Yeah, me too. But that was before I understood Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). In my previous post, we explored the essentials of PKM and Tiago Forte’s The 4 Levels ...

Here's a way to remove duplicate files using a cli tool.Install fdupesThere are many tooling options. I have used fdupes to good effect.Get it:sudo apt install fdupesInteractive phasesIf you want to delete the duplicate files in the current directory, run this command:fdupes . -dThis will detect dup...

📔 Intro # This post will be a tutorial on how to get rclone working on Synology’s DSM and enable one/two-way sync between your Synology device and an rclone compatible cloud backend.

Every year, I get asked, “How many CVEs do you think will be published this year?“ I am always willing to take a guess, but last year, I read Time Series Forecasting in Python. As I started to read more about the Kalman Filter, I figured it would work great for predicting CVE growth, so I built a si...

A Launch Week X rundown with all the fantastic goodies we shipped

How to: Call Access Manager from PubNub Functions