Stefano Chiodino

LLMs won’t replace engineers AI is improving at a sustained, impressive pace.

The boring prose bit Journaling has been a useful tool for personal reflection.

The idea of pirate treasure derives from a single incident involving William Kidd in 1699.

Do you want to add geotagging (latitude and longitude coordinates) to your photos?

Ask for more money Have you received a new job offer?

Here are some non obvious thoughts about reviewing code. … it depends This has little to do with code reviews, yet it’s some of the best advice you’ll ever find around: it depends.

I have found out that recruiters have hunted me down using the email address I have inadvertently used to commit in Github.

One day Chris, head of devops, gave me a tour of our setup.

It’s important to smile when talking on the phone, it sounds different.

Clarity above all.

Most of the sun’s energy is in the green wavelength, however that’s exactly what the plants bounce back, as chlorophyll of type a and b absorbs light in the red and blue spectrum.

Kim Il-sung died in ‘94, but it’s been nominated eternal President of the Republic, making the country’s system a necrocracy.

I recall a friend complaining about “PAT test”, because PAT already stands for Portable Appliance Test, so adding test at the end was redundant.

A skeuomorph is an object that maintained design cues that have become non functional.

Dicots and monocots differs on several more features other than the one that gives them their names: the number of cotyledon (leafs) in their embryo.

Xylem are tubes that allows water and substances to go through a plant.

Plasmodesma is a narrow thread of cytoplasm that passes through the cell walls of adjacent plant cells and allows communication between them.

The Fundamental attribution error is the tendency for people to attribute far too much importance to personality rather than situations.

In the USA the value of a life has been estimated to be worth 10 million USD.

Conjunction fallacy occurs when it is assumed that specific conditions are more probable than a single general one.

If I flip a coin and look at the result in secret, being heads, then the chances that it’s heads it’s 100% for me, but 50% for everybody else.

After the Second World War forecasts were that Asia was going to be a trouble area because it was poorer that Africa and without the same amount of resources.

To produce an Amazon basic alkaline battery may require 100 times more energy than what the battery can actually produce.

Written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.

I was investigating if my controller was handling correctly post requests, when I noticed that it was being called twice.

A reader of my post on how I use Hugo pointed out in the comments that it’s now possible to write online Hugo posts from Forestry.io.

I was trying to delete all the passwords stored in google at Google passwords, way too many to do manually!

In this post I’ll show you how I write my posts, deploy them to the server, process them with Hugo and host them on my DigitalOcean server.

I’ve recently tried Digitalocean hosting and decided to host this blog on it.