The UI is nothing like Google Reader, but the way it works under the hood is – your Mastodon server is constantly communicating with other hosts to get the latest updates, and sharing the workload of fetching that data for all of the other users on the same server
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Git Monorepo Checkout Issues on Windows Systems
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Remember we had the same issue with git checkouts on the monorepo under Windows.
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Domino Partners with Anaconda for Secure OSS Package Access
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We're excited to announce a partnership to deliver Domino users access to the complete and secure OSS #Python / R package repository hosted, built, and maintained by @anacondainc without the need for a separate enterprise license. #MLOps Read the news: https://
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Building SQL Learning Tutorial With Custom Tools
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I'm building my own tutorial about learning SQL with my tools here;
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SQLBolt: Learn SQL Queries Effectively Online
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The best website to learn and practice SQL queries on the go No one can beat sqlbolt when it comes to learning SQL from scratch Check the website to learn SQL now! https://
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Model input parameters now have shareable anchor links
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Model input parameters all have anchor links now, so you can share a URL directly to the docs for a specific input.
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Databricks Data Engineering Course: SQL and Python Pipeline Skills
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Not to toot our own horn…but #data professionals from all walks of life could benefit from our Data Engineering with Databricks course Learn skills like how to leverage #SQL and Python to define and schedule pipelines. Register now
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Federated Networks as Leaky Abstractions: Design Challenges
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I think it really suffers from being a leaky abstraction – it's pretending to be a single thing like Twitter, but the boundaries between servers mean it actually works in all sorts of surprising things ways
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Linking significant work to issue threads for better context
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I'm a fan of trying to link significant pieces of work to an issue thread, to provide a place for additional context, screenshots and other notes to exist independently of the commit log – see my notes here https://
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Efficient ActivityPub implementations with Python asyncio and Rust
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Yeah I genuinely do worry about that I'm looking forward to more efficient ActivityPub implementations – stuff like Python asyncio on top of SQLite could use a lot less resources than Sidekiq non-async workers and PostgreSQL – or move the noisy bits directly to Go or Rust