Managing Your Team • Mar 29, 2025 The Power and Perils of Place: Weighing Colocation vs. Distribution According to PMI's IT Project Success Survey, co-location in agile teams achieve a 79% success rate compared to just 55% for distribution.
Artificial Intelligence • Mar 28, 2025 Build a Joke-Telling Chatbot with LangGraph and Streamlit Let's explore how to build an interactive joke-telling chatbot - including a setup and punchline - using LangGraph, LangChain, and Streamlit.
Growing as Makers • Mar 27, 2025 Junior Devs: Avoid These Pitfalls with LLMs Junior developers need to use LLMs differently than senior ones. Here's why and what I have been trying instead.
Developer Tools • Mar 26, 2025 Simplify RAG with Pinecone + LangChain Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is surprisingly easy using Pinecone's vector database and the LangChain ecosystem.
Development Practices • Mar 25, 2025 Encryption for Your App – Best Practices for Getting Started Adding security or encryption to a project can be daunting. It's tough even to know where to start. Here are a few things to keep in mind.
Artificial Intelligence • Mar 19, 2025 Use These Security, Privacy, and Safety Essentials for LLM Integration LLM integration is increasingly common but comes with unique risks. Let's review those risks and references to help avoid pitfalls.
Developer Tools • Mar 18, 2025 Try These 4 Apps to Visualize Redis Stream Data Having a good visualization tool means having clear insights into your application state. Visualize Redis stream data with 4 different apps.
The Software Life • Mar 13, 2025 Are There Opportunities to Use OODA Loops in Your Software Project? The concept of OODA loops is a simple model of gathering information and making decisions, but it has some sophisticated implications.
Artificial Intelligence • Mar 11, 2025 A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs With a temporary instance of a model and a bit of setup, running a local LLM can be an incredibly useful tool.
UX & Design • Mar 10, 2025 Why Accessibility Overlays Fall Short & What We Did Instead Automated tools like browser plug-ins only identify 30-40% of accessibility issues. This means the remaining 60% must be found manually.
Project & Team Management • Mar 08, 2025 Saving Money or Losing Time? The Real Trade-Off of Skipping a Delivery Lead Skipping a Delivery Lead may seem like a cost-saving move, but it can lead to delays and hidden costs. Learn the trade-offs.
AI for Developers • Mar 07, 2025 Developers: Don’t Let AI Rot Your Brain! Although AI tools might seem like a miraculous time saver, just like a calculator, over-reliance on them will rot your brain!
