Formatting dates and times in JavaScript with Temporal and the Internationalization API

The Temporal API is a much improved successor to the much-hated JavaScript Date object. .toString() returns Temporal dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. For example: That isn’t easy for a non-technical users to decipher.

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Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

In November 2023, after OpenAI added the ability for ChatGPT to generate images from DALL-E 3 within the ChatGPT web interface, there was a short-lived meme where users gave the LLM a base image and kept asking the model to “make it more X”, where X can be anything.

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Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments. This is a sequel to my review of 2023.

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My 2024 AI Engineer Roadmap List

Developer Tools & Platforms Frameworks / Infrastructure / Backends Supabase: An open-source Firebase alternative offering Postgres, authentication, and storage solutions.

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Message Queues in System Design

Doing all of this immediately, especially during peak traffic times, could slow down the customer’s experience. In this case, we have a large number of application events, and we can’t handle all of them at once.

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Your Lodash Tutorial: How To Import Lodash Libraries

Optimizing how we use code libraries like Lodash is a great way to avoid common problems during software development. For those of us familiar with using Lodash and other third-party libraries, we are all too familiar with running into these common scenarios:

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Sweet Suspense

I was reading Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh's book Building Large Scale Web Apps. (Which, by the way, I can definitely recommend.) In it they cover all the ways to make a React app sing at scale.

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