The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and…
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How PGSimCity Turns PostgreSQL Complexity Into a Virtual City 3D Simulation
Nikolay Samokhvalov has released PGSimCity, an open-source educational visualisation tool that converts PostgreSQL cluster mechanics into an interactive 3D spatial simulation. Running entirely in the browser without local dependencies, the…
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React Native 0.87 – Strict TypeScript API, Metro Update, Swift Package Manager, AGP 9 Support · React Native
Today we are excited to release React Native 0.87! This release makes the Strict TypeScript API the default JavaScript API, updates Metro to 0.87, adds experimental support for Swift Package…
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Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs: A Complete Guide Using XYZ-Aquila-SFT and Qwen3
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end supervised fine-tuning pipeline for the XYZ-Aquila-SFT dataset, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, and PEFT. We stream and inspect the dataset, parse multi-turn tool-use trajectories,…
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No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own?
Phoebe Sajor: Hi Doug, Hi Ash, thank you for joining me for this No Dumb Questions. To start—what exactly is context architecture in AI and why do we care? Doug…
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Grok 4.6 matched Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. Downloadable models set that price.
I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, explaining what they mean for people and organizations putting this…
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JSX Over The Wire — overreacted
Suppose you have an API route that returns some data as JSON: app.get(‘/api/likes/:postId’, async (req, res) => { const postId = req.params.postId; const [post, friendLikes] = await Promise.all([ getPost(postId), getFriendLikes(postId,…
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Understanding the Role of Latent Space in Machine Learning Models
In this article, you will learn what latent spaces are and how they serve three distinct roles — descriptive, generative, and predictive — across a wide range of machine learning…
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Connecting AI Agents to Salesforce with MCP: A Practical Guide
Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash Model Context Protocol (MCP) was first introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 as an open source standard for connecting LLMs/AI Agents to data systems, whether…
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HCP Terraform is the control plane for AI-driven infrastructure
AI-driven infrastructure is broader than generating configuration. It is a growing set of workflows across the whole lifecycle: application teams composing infrastructure from approved patterns in natural language, platform teams…
