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Before Medplum, Reshma founded and exited two startups in the healthcare space – MedXT (managing medical images online acquired by Box) and Droplet (at-home diagnostics company acquired by Ro). Reshma has a B.S. in computer science and a Masters of Engineering from MIT. You can learn more about Medplum here and check out their Github, which has over 1,200 stars, here . You can learn more about Khi...

Cassidy reflect on her time as a CTO of a startup and how the shifting environment for funding has created new pressures and incentives for founders, developers, and venture capitalists. Ben tries to get a bead on a new Moore’s law for the GenAI era: when will we start to see diminishing returns and fewer step factor jumps?  Ben and Cassidy remember the time they made a viral joke of a keyboard !...

How would all this work in practice? Of course, any metric you set out can easily become a target that developers look to game. With Snapshot Reviews, the goal is to get a high level overview of a software team’s total activity and then use AI to measure the complexity of the tasks and output. If a pull request attached to a Jira ticket is evaluated as simple by the system, for example, and a prog...

RelationalAI’s first big partner is Snowflake , meaning customers can now start using their data with GenAI without worrying about the privacy, security, and governance hassle that would come with porting their data to a new cloud provider. The company promises it can also add metadata and a knowledge graph to existing data without pushing it through an ETL pipeline. You can learn more about the c...

Palmer says that a huge percentage of today’s top websites, including apps like ChartGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, were built with Vercel’s Next. JS.  For the second goal, you can see what Vercel is up to with its v0 project , which lets developers use text prompts and images to generate code.  Third, the Vercel AI SDK, which aims to to help developers build conversational, streaming, and chat user...

You can learn more about these three features on our Overflow AI site . If you want to connect with Tiago, you can find him on LinkedIn . The same goes for Alexa . A shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahozad for earning a LifeBoat badge with their answer to the question:  How can I add Jetpack Compose & xml in the same activity? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...

You can learn more about Squire AI here Connect with Patel on his LinkedIn Congrats to Bharath Pabba for earning a Great Question badge and helping 129,000 people with a similar question by asking:  How to disable source maps for React JS Application? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

You can find Narayan on LinkedIn . Learn more about SnapLogic here . Congrats to our user of the week, Ethan Heilman, for earning a Great Question badge by showing some curiosity and asking: How do I deal with garbage collection logs in Java? This question has been viewed over 175,000 times and helped lots of folks gain some new knowledge :) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali...

You can find Shestakofsky on his website or check him out on X . Grab a copy of his new book: Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality .  As he writes on his website, the book: Draws on 19 months of participant-observation research to examine how investors’ demand for rapid growth created organizational problems that managers solved by combining high-tech sys...

Temporal is an open-source implementation of durable execution, a development paradigm that preserves complete application state so that upon host or software failure it can seamlessly migrate execution to another machine. Learn how it works or dive into the docs .  Temporal’s SaaS offering is Temporal Cloud . Replay is a three-day conference focused on durable execution. Replay 2024 is September...

Robin is the author of a practical handbook for Selenium test automation . Connect with Robin on LinkedIn , Twitter , or via his website .  Shoutout to user2651084 , who earned a Great Question badge by asking How do I reset the Jupyter/IPython input prompt numbering? .  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Galileo is an end-to-end platform for GenAI evaluation, experimentation, and observability. Learn more by exploring their docs . Galileo’s Hallucination Index is a ranking and evaluation framework for LLM hallucinations (it includes a blooper reel). Connect with Vikram on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Petr Janeček won a Lifeboat badge for answering Null array to empty list , a question that’s hel...

OverflowAI is a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that does the heavy lifting of discovering and distilling information into a coherent answer. It encompasses three modules: Enhanced Search, an upgraded search experience; Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code, an IDE extension; and Auto-Answer App for Slack, which automates access to essential team knowledge.  Read about why Overfl...

Al Sweigert is the author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and many other books about programming. You can read them all for free here . His scroll art project introduces beginners to programming by letting them turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art. Al joined us from a retreat at the Brooklyn, NY-based Recurse Center , which offers free, self-directed retreats for programmers. Le...

Read Eira’s two-part series about developers with ADHD here and here . Chris recommends that devs with ADHD employ a “second brain” to help them track and remember information. Read Eira’s article on what second brains reveal about how we work. A few years back Chris joined us to talk about the most lightweight web “framework” around: VanillaJS. Listen to the episode . Chris offers classes and wor...

Kong is a cloud-native API gateway. Find them on GitHub . We last spoke with Marco in 2023. inf Connect with Marco on LinkedIn . Congrats to Famous Question badge winner mjbradford7 on How to re-render one component from another in React . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

If you’ve been laid off or you’re just sweating the possibility, here’s what to do .  Check out the results of our last job market survey.  Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn . Shoutout to stevenkucera , who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I create a global, mutable singleton? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...

In a narrow vote, the US Federal Trade Commission banned almost all noncompete agreements , a staple of the tech industry for years. Learn how a 2017 tax law is haunting startups in 2024 . Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki exposed tens of thousands of confidential psychiatric records and tried to extort payment directly from the affected patients. Read more about it here or here .  It happened:...

SQLite is the most used database engine in the world.  Stop by the forum or explore the docs . Devs have pledged to support SQLite through the year 2050 .  The developer with a team of three, all of them himself at different points in time, was Tarn Adams of Dwarf Fortress fame.  On Stack Overflow, 1.2 million people have found the answer to How can I list the tables in a SQLite database file that...

Meta’s open-source Llama 3 model puts Meta’s AI assistant head-to-head with ChatGPT . Stability AI laid off 10% of its workforce, the first major AI foundation model to reduce its workforce since the advent of generative AI. Is the dot-com bubble a cautionary tale for AI enthusiasts? Listen to the episode of Marketplace from NPR. Do LLMs support Wittgenstein’s position that “meaning is use”? That...

Why can’t configuration be made simple ?  Apple is making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts . Texas is swapping human graders for AI . Automattic (owner of WordPress) is acquiring Beeper for $125M . Silicon Valley or not, San Francisco’s train system still uses floppy disks . But don’t worry, an upgrade is coming—in 2030. Shoutout to Bite code , who earned a Stellar Quest...

Get started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud today.  Read more from the MongoDB DevRel team at the MongoDB Developer Center . Learn more about Google’s Gemini models .  Shout out to thitemple for their Lifeboat -worthy answer to In TypeScript, how do I declare a function that returns a string type array? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...

Connect with Michael on LinkedIn .  Shoutout to user1083266 , who earned a Stellar Question badge with How to store image in SQLite database . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

ICYMI: A backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility, highlights the risks of relying on open-source software maintained by small teams. Read more about the cyberattack here . Apple’s new LLM, Ferret , could help Siri understand the user interfaces of mobile displays, potentially expanding the capabilities of Apple’s digital assistant.  Shoutout to Stack Overflow user cheese1756 , wh...

Learn more about the potential of AI inference with OpenVINO Notebooks . Check out the previous podcast with Intel , where we talk with Raymond Lo about how hardware and software work together with AI. Connect with Ria on LinkedIn or GitHub .  Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Kevin , who showed what they know about TypeError; Must use key word argument or key function in Python 3.x . See Privacy...