tech/webdev magazine

April 19, 2024

How do mixture-of-experts layers affect transformer models?

Friday, April 19, 2024 Teklinks

[Ed. note: This article comes from a Tweet first posted here. We’ve partnered with Cameron Wolfe to give his insights a wider audience, as we think they provide insight into various topics around GenAI.] Mixture of experts (MoE) has arisen as a new technique to improve LLM performance.

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DevTools Tips & Tricks

Friday, April 19, 2024 Teklinks

Front-end developers spend a significant amount of time working inside the browser’s DevTools. Likely just as much as they spend time writing code in the code editor. However, most developers barely scratch the surface of what DevTools can accomplish.

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April 16, 2024

“What is your current salary?” is a red flag that you don’t want to work here

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Teklinks

You are on the initial phone screen call with someone from human resources. Since thirty minutes you are trying to explain succinctly what your life has been about in the last decade to a complete stranger. Maybe you have been teased with tricky questions on how git works internally, and you have done your best to answer correctly. You are starting to feel exhausted, but fortunately the call seems to come to an end.

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Building a Remix app locally with Docker

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Teklinks

Fly.io makes it easy to deploy containerized apps in seconds. The more comfortable you are with Docker, the smoother and more reliable your deployments can be. Let’s learn how to leverage Docker when developing your app locally!

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April 14, 2024

Understanding Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Sunday, April 14, 2024 Teklinks

As of March 12th 2023, Interaction to Next Paint (INP) replaces First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital metric. FID and INP are measuring the same situation in the browser: how clunky does it feel when a user interacts with an element on the page? The good news for the web—and its users—is that INP provides a much better representation of real-world performance by taking every part of the interaction and rendered response into account.

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