Understanding Large Language Models -- A Transformative Reading List

"Large language models have taken the public attention by storm – no pun intended. In just half a decade large language models – transformers – have almost completely changed the field of natural language processing."

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Caching Static HTML with WordPress/WooCommerce

"​​ Overview Customers in all Cloudflare plans can configure caching HTML files. However, Business and Enterprise customers can bypass HTML caching when a cookie is sent with a request Bypass Cache on Cookie setting using Cloudflare Page Rules."

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WordPress 6.2 Field Guide

"This guide shares more of the in-depth changes that you will find in 6.2 and is published with Release Candidate 1 to help inform WordPress developers, extenders and others."

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Version 6.2

"On March 29, 2023, WordPress 6.2 "Dolphy" was released to the public. For more information on this release, read the WordPress 6.2 announcement. For Version 6.2, the database version (db_version in wp_options) updated to 53496, and the Trac revision was 55610. A full list of tickets included in 6.2 can be found on Trac. Installation/Update…"

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How WebAssembly is accelerating new web functionality

"WebAssembly is fundamentally changing how new developer capabilities and functionality can be created on the web. In order to maintain browser interoperability, new web capabilities need to go through a rigorous standardization process and cross browser implementations."

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How Software Companies Die – Orson Scott Card

"The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa."
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Why I Spent a Week on a 10-Line Code Change

"Recently, while working on the ability to drag tabs in Warp, I ran into a major blocker: trying to drag an individual tab would instead drag the entire window around."

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Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes

"DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! Fonts are a defining characteristic of the design of any site."

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Making Calendars With Accessibility and Internationalization in Mind

"DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! Doing a quick search here on CSS-Tricks shows just how many different ways there are to approach calendars. Some show how CSS Grid can create the layout efficiently."

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5 Mistakes I Made When Starting My First React Project

"DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! You know what it’s like to pick up a new language or framework. Sometimes there’s great documentation to help you find your way through it."

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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

"In 2017, we wrote a blog post on how we store billions of messages. We shared our journey of how we started out using MongoDB but migrated our data to Cassandra because we were looking for a database that was scalable, fault-tolerant, and relatively low maintenance."

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Sandboxing with Partytown

"Partytown is a “library to help relocate resource intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code, and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker."

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Design Patterns in PHP 8: State

"Hi there! State design pattern is a behavioral design pattern that enables an object to change its behavior when its internal state changes. This pattern is useful when an object's behavior is dependent on its state, and it must change its behavior at runtime based on changes in the state."

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Initialize WordPress environment to use in command line script

"I have a command line script for maintaining a wordpress plugin and have to load the wordpress core to be able to access wordpress functions. This problem is very similar to Initialize WordPress environment to use in a real cron script."

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Connecting Your Devs' Work to the Business | A Conversation w/ Shopify, Slack & Stripe

"To answer this seemingly simple question, we assembled a panel of some of the smartest engineering leaders we know and asked them how they answer this question with their own teams. Featuring Rukmini Reddy, SVP of Platform Engineering at Slack, James Stanier, Dir."

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How does the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header work?

"New! Save questions or answers and organize your favorite content. Learn more. Apparently, I have completely misunderstood its semantics. I thought of something like this:"

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20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

"You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context."

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PHP in 2023

"From its humble beginnings as a personal project in the mid-90s, PHP has grown to become one of the most popular languages for web development, powering everything from small blogs to large enterprise applications."

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