One more for my weekend spate of developer posts, but from the opposite of the LLM-assisted cutting edge: this wonderful collection of classic-era Mac programming books, carefully scanned as PDFs. These evoke nostalgia both for the classic Mac era and for the entire notion of “programming books”. (Via Michael Tsai and Rui Carmo.)
apps.apple.com/us/app/walk-the-world-virtual-trails/id6743502929
developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-26-release-notes
Annndd this is the final piece I created for my collaboration with The Marine Mammal Center! We have made hand signed prints available and a portion of all proceeds will go to them.
We meet the woman sending hugs from Texas in the form of a quilt. Connie Kortz set up a network of volunteer quilters, who make them for people who are in need. Called 'Hugs from Texas' -- the group donated quilted blankets to the families affected by the devastating floods earlier this year.
Also, find out about the traditional ceremony that takes place for the first time a baby laughs. We go to the football match between Dulwich Hamlet FC and Altonaer which is celebrating 100 years of friendship.
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LLMs are intelligence without agency—what we might call "vox sine persona": voice without person. Not the voice of someone, not even the collective voice of many someones, but a voice emanating from no one at all.
Tags: benj-edwards, ai-personality, generative-ai, ai, llms
Talk Python: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators
I recorded this podcast episode recently to celebrate Django's 20th birthday with Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplet, and Thibaud Colas.We didn’t know that it was a web framework. We thought it was a tool for building local newspaper websites. [...]
Django’s original tagline was ‘Web development on journalism deadlines’. That’s always been my favorite description of the project.
Tags: adrian-holovaty, django, python, podcast-appearances
This new piece is part of a collaboration with The Marine Mammal Center! We have made signed prints available and a portion of all proceeds go to them.
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