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🏎️💨 Making of a Ridiculously Fast™ API client in R. Why my package is **~17x faster** than the community alternatives that call the **exact same API endpoints**. 👇🏽**design choices matter** ✨ https://lnkd.in/ggi_2XyQ

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It's not all non-symbolic AI... I presented today to Accord Project Technology Working Group on recent enhancements to the Template Engine and how TypeScript expressions within templates are compiled and evaluated. Accord Project uses TypeScript over Concerto types (with Concerto also compiled to TypeScript) to provide type-safe logic/calculations for templates; ensuring that a wide array of programming errors are caught at template compilation time, not at runtime. #typesafety #soundness #typescript #templating #legaltech

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Noticing distorted images in Rise 360? This could be putting your course out of compliance with your organization's identity guidelines (that big pdf that has your hexadeximal and Pantone colors.) Here's the CSS Theme Component to fix the issue. Join me as we diagnose the mystery of distorted images in the process block. This solution requires a Theme Component to be added to your exported Rise course (SCORM or Web package.) https://lnkd.in/e78wryvR

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REMINDER: #Qdabra Webinar tomorrow at 8AM PT. Join us for a live demo of the latest Qdabra Forms release! https://lnkd.in/gHMpTkit #webinars #FormsViewer #sharepoint #sharepointonline #infopath #infopathalternative #infopathmigration

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https://lnkd.in/gPyFW5p8 <insert Tron “I fight for the USER!” gif> Seriously. It used to be “we launched and have some UI tweaks” and it feels now places just break the UI because “functionally, it does what it is supposed to” with a disregard to WHO is going to use it and if you made it easy for them to do their job. Talk to the users. Adapt.

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Having a ton of fun writing an ORM for V2 of Case Kit. Typescript has such an incredible type system. I have autocompletion for column names, the ability to include relations, relations of relations, etc etc etc... all returning properly typed data (no classes in sight). It's been really satisfying seeing it coming together, and it's been great getting my hands dirty with some (relatively) complex generics. And to head off the obvious question… why aren’t I just using Prisma? Well there’s a couple of things I’m doing differently that I think are marginally better: there’s no code generation involved here, it’s just types (inspired by Drizzle); there’s no Rust binary you need to deploy, and it hews much closer to Postgres behaviour and syntax (the aim here is not to abstract away which database you’re using). But the real blocker to me using Prisma was that its extensions don’t support modifying queries of nested relations - a hard requirement for me due to the way I have multitenancy and soft deletes set up. It’s not shown in the video but the Case Kit ORM lets you write simple middleware that will be applied to every level of a nested query. Perfect for setting timestamps or adding clauses on tenant id or things like that.

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🐰 Bencher v0.4.7 Released 🎉 This release comes with new and improved Pull Request comments! - If there are no Thresholds set, you now get a ⚠️ warning - If an Alert is generated, you now get a separate 🚨 Alerts table - All benchmark results are now under a details tag to keep the comment concise - The comment tag has been improved to update the same comment even after a rebase or base branch change https://lnkd.in/ehe5hHfT

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These findings are very insightful and will help a lot when creating RAG for applications. What should be stressed is how comprehensive Azure AI Search is. I have come across projects where they have selected a database based on current trends or without fully understanding what is required for RAG and whether the capabilities of the indexer or database meet those needs. Pinecone and Chroma come to mind, which have their strengths, but when it comes down to it, only PostgreSQL pgvector and FAISS are comparable.

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I just sent this email to #BigBasket #bbdaily about inconsistent billing. Some (like I) would call it fraud. I had a customer experience and fraud confrontation with #Flipakart a couple weeks ago. What's going on with me? Really... Is it me or them? When will they really get serious? I understand that there can be software errors. In digital world, or technically - a software, N number of things can break. But there are few things that cannot be compromised. OK, here's that email 👇 Dear Grievance Officer at Bigbasket, I am writing to bring to your immediate attention a serious issue regarding incorrect billing of products on my account between <redacted> and <redacted>. This matter is not just a simple error but constitutes financial fraud, which cannot be taken lightly. During the specified period, I noticed that the billing for one item (<redacted>) was inflated. For <redacted> milk, the correct billing was <redacted>. However, between <redacted>, both dates included, <redacted> was charged. Although I have been promised by the customer support that the additional amount has been refunded to my account, I am concerned that other customers might have been similarly affected. This issue likely extends beyond my account and could have impacted numerous other customers. I am also worried that these things might just be occurring and will continue to occur. Out of 100 customers impacted, a few may notice and the remaining may not even know that this happened. Bigbasket is making money in unscrupulous ways. Given the gravity of this situation, I urge you to initiate a thorough investigation into the matter. It is imperative that corrective measures are implemented promptly to ensure that all affected customers receive appropriate refunds. Additionally, robust measures must be put in place to prevent such issues from occurring in the future. Please provide me with detailed information on the steps you are taking to resolve this issue for other customers and the preventive measures you plan to implement to avoid such incidents in the future. I also intend to bring this matter to the attention of the concerned government authorities to ensure that appropriate actions are taken. I look forward to your prompt response and resolution of this matter. Trying to do the right thing Saket Modi

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Testing software is quite a bit more than seeing if it can do something right. Testing is about trying "everything". Most importantly values that are on the edges and especially values outside valid ranges. https://xkcd.com/2928/

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How does cloud-based device testing stack up against maintaining in-house device farms? How does one begin to navigate choosing a mobile testing approach? Modernizing your testing process in today’s challenging landscape – where to begin? These are a few of the many questions Marcus Merrell and I will address in part one of a two-part webinar series on a few things you need to get started with cloud-based device testing on May 21. We can’t wait to see you there! https://lnkd.in/dJuwZqNX

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Last night I released my #RustLang crate steady_state="0.0.16" About it: https://lnkd.in/gq-w86k3 (give me a star) I hope to clean up docs and tests for a 1.0 release next month. Right now I am asking for feedback. #Makers #inventors #builders #programming 38

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"How many minors make a major?" This is a question that comes up frequently in the QA world - how many minor bugs pile up before they become more then a minor annoyance and become a major hinderance? I've been renovating my basement. This requires bolting 2x4 lumber to the concrete. Of the 20 pieces of lumber I bought, 1 was warped within a degree of reason. 5% failure rate, minor annoyance Out of a pack of 100 concrete screws, 5 had defective heads. 5% failure rate, minor annoyance Part way through, I needed a new drillbit. The new bit was slightly smaller then the original, despite being listed as 5/32". Fractional inch off, minor annoyance. Here's the problem: The slightly smaller drillbit made smaller holes, caused extra torsion on the screws, snaping 5 of the 30 and requiring me to drill new holes. 15% failure rate. The warped lumber put extra strain on the screws, snaping 4 bolts and requiring 4 extra screws to re-shape the wood. 30% failure rate vs normal screws required. I calculated I needed 80 screws. I bought a pack of 100. I used 98. They only sell these screws in packs of 50 for $30. If I had lost just two more screws, I would have made a trip to the hardware store and spent $30 for 50 screws I should never have needed. Not to mention my time and building frustration. 3 minors very nearly caused a major. #quality #qaengineer

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Harry Ronchetti has just shipped a complete do-over of Vizzly's Theme API docs! 👏 Documentation plays such an important role in building a first class developer experience, and it's deceptively hard to do! I'm excited to see what beautiful, custom-themed dashboards this update will help to create! https://lnkd.in/eKVCuqPd #docs #dashboard #customize

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There’s something for everyone in web development in here:

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I have a question for software teams that meet ISO-27001 / SOC 2 Type II *and* who use outsourced software development with git. Do you have all your contractors sign all your policies so they can contribute to your codebase directly? Or do you have the outsourced team work in a separate git repository and then have an employee merge to the main repo? Or some other model?

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Progress = your QA release process growing from 15 minutes to 5 hours. A stat that’s both invigorating & frustrating at the same time. But I think the single best thing you can do to delight your customers is to personally guarantee “it just works”.

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