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Favorite Resources for Keeping up to Date in the Industry 2024
Working in an industry that moves as fast as software requires constant work to coninue to be "in the know." Here are the resources I’ve enjoyed this year! Slack Rand’s Leadership Slack. I initially found this slack while reading The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly. It’s a large community full of very smart people…
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Misc Tools I’ve Found Useful, October 2024
I don’t gatekeep. Habitica I have this as an app on my phone. It gamifies habits, chores and to-dos. It sounds silly, but it really has gotten me to regularly do those things I know I should do but can easily ignore (ie. daily stretches, oil changes, reading, personal projects, blog post writing…) I’ve also…
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How LLM’s Unlearn
Or more accurately, can they? How Do LLMs Know Anything? Large Language Models (LLMs) “know” things by learning from vast datasets. How does that process actually work? It begins with data collection, pulling information from a wide range of sources like books, websites, and social media. This raw data is then broken down into tokens—smaller…
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Courses I’ve Taken: How To Become an Outstanding Solution Architect
I finished the udemy course “How to Become An Outstanding Solution Architect” in October 2023. I’d rate this course a 3/5. This course’s goal is to teach “all the soft and hard skills you need to take your architect design skills to the next level.” Does it do that? Well, for the right audience, a…
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How I Plan Software Projects: Creating a Timeline
It will come to the point in every Individual Contributor’s life that they’ll be asked to lead or assist in the planning of a project. How and when this comes will depend on a lot on the company and your specific career trajectory, but sooner or later, the request comes for us all. It starts…