Best of Tech NewsJune 2023

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    Avatar of arstechnicaArs Technica·3y

    Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion

    Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion AI image-synthesis model. The functional pieces reflect artistic styles in anime and Asian art. QR codes, short for Quick Response codes, are two-dimensional barcodes initially designed for the automotive industry in Japan.

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    How I became a Tech Lead and what I learned along the way

    The role of a Tech Lead (TL) is not easy to understand, for several reasons. The TL role is a hybrid one, not quite a manager, and not quite an individual contributor.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    DevPod - Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated

    DevPod - Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated. DevPod is built on the dev container to create reproducible dev environments. It lets you spin up dev environments in any infra, kind of like a Terraform but for dev environments. This is DevPod's first launch.

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    Avatar of dhhDavid Heinemeier Hansson·3y

    We have left the cloud

    In six months, we brought home six heritage services that we're no longer selling, but have committed to support for existing customers and users. We use KVM to slice our new monster 192-thread Dell R7625s into isolated VMs, then Docker to run the containerized applications, and finally Manage Remote Server Kontainers.

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    Avatar of staysaasyStay SaaSy·3y

    How To Be An Engineer That PMs Don't Hate

    To be an engineer that PMs don't hate: Be responsible with the power of shipping code. Don’t make Product Management your QA team or your project manager. Don't mistake technical knowledge for intelligence. Explain the value of tech debt in a way that is easy to understand.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·3y

    How to Improve Your Technical Writing Skills by Contributing to Open Source Projects

    For one, you get to work on projects that are often displayed publicly. This can be a great way to showcase your skills to your professional network. You can use your writing skills to help maintainers improve their projects' documentation. In this guide, I will discuss how you can find open source projects that need tech writers.

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    Avatar of 80lv80 LEVEL·3y

    ChatGPT Is Giving Out Working Windows 11 Keys

    ChatGPT is giving out working Windows 11 keys to the chatbot. The system generates a bunch of codes, and some of them can be applied to successfully activate a new Windows copy. However, the generated codes are generic license keys, so there are some feature limitations.

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    Avatar of builderiobuilder.io·3y

    The Dev Drop: Hydration is a Tree, Visual Guides for Next.js App Router & Layouts, and lots of RSC news

    The StackOverflow 2023 Developer Survey has published their results from almost 90K respondents. Rspack v0.2.0 was released. It’s a Webpack alternative, written in Rust.

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    Avatar of mlnewsMachine Learning News·3y

    Microsoft AI Introduces Orca: A 13-Billion Parameter Model that Learns to Imitate the Reasoning Process of LFMs (Large Foundation Models)

    Microsoft AI Introduces Orca: A 13-Billion Parameter Model that Learns to Imitate the Reasoning Process of LFMs (Large Foundation Models) This innovative approach significantly improves the performance of existing state-of-the-art instruction-tuned models, addressing challenges related to task diversity, query complexity, and data scaling.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·3y

    Deploy to Vercel with a GitHub Action

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    Avatar of mlnewsMachine Learning News·3y

    50+ New Cutting-Edge AI Tools (2023)

    50+ New Cutting-Edge AI Tools (2023) - MarkTechPost AI tools are rapidly increasing in development, with new ones being introduced regularly. Check out some AI tools below that can enhance your daily routines. For example, Otter.AI empowers users with real-time transcriptions of meeting notes that are shareable, searchable, accessible, and secure.

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    Avatar of mlnewsMachine Learning News·3y

    Say Goodbye to Costly Auto-GPT and LangChain Runs: Meet ReWOO – The Game-Changing Modular Paradigm that Cuts Token Consumption by Detaching Reasoning from External Observations

    Large Language Models (LLMs) have catered their way into the challenging areas of Artificial Intelligence. ReWOO (Reasoning WithOut Observation) is a modular paradigm to reduce token consumption. The team has carried out a thorough analysis across six open Natural Language Processing (NLP) benchmarks and a curated dataset.