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AI & Emerging Technology
AI coverage focuses on two opposite ends: the end of every job due to AI, or the overselling of AI as a complicated program that fails to replace human tasks. These extremes are detrimental to the thoughtful discussion AI deserves, and are not helpful when figuring out technical and social implications of AI. The following will provide a better perspective to the current AI landscape.
Software Development & Programming
Trying to learn to code for the first time can be difficult. Finding where to start can be even more challenging. For this reason, there’s a lot of information available. Which advice can you trust? Minus the time-honored traditions of asking several friends, which advice do you take? Which piece of information do you use to make the best decision? A lot of information is available. Instead of trusting everything, we’re going to cut some information and present what you really need to know.
Practical Tech & Dev Guides
Many tech manuals explain concepts at a high-level without teaching a reader how to accomplish a task, or use official, deterministic documentation that assumes a reader already knows half of the concepts. This section fills that gap, providing seekers of practical, step by step instructions with explicit task goals.
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The Latest Obsession: Why Rust Continues to Appear on Backend Job Listings
Rust was once a language just a few enthusiasts mentioned on forums a few years ago. Having a language that was genuinely fast, memory-safe without using a garbage collector, created a fair amount of buzz, but a language like Rust was still too niche for most programmers to use. That is beginning to change. Searching…
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What “Vibe Coding” Actually Means (and Where It Falls Apart)
There have been many discussions about this notion floating around over the past year with the premise of building software with little to no payoff from actually reading, or even understanding, the code. This has spawned with the rise of AI tooling. While this has become an accurate description of work for many people, especially…
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5 Terminal Commands That Save More Time Than Expected
Developers usually learn the terminal in segments. Early on, the typical knowledge required to survive is learned. What a majority don’t learn are tools that boost efficiency. These commands cannot be overlooked and become prominantly useful with time. There are four of these very useful commands. grep Searching files for a snippet of text is…
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Do I need a web development firm or web design company?
The web design services you need depends on the goals and objectives of your website. There are basically three options: do it yourself, hire a professional designer or let an experienced development company build your site. It’s not so much about how capable you are at creating a website, it’s about the kind of goals…
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