DockerSlim => SlimToolkit (slim.ai)

slimtoolkit/slim: Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source) @GitHub 

(Go, Apache 2)

Optimize Your Experience with Containers. Make Your Containers Better, Smaller, More Secure and Do Less to Get There (free and open source!)

Note that DockerSlim is now just Slim (SlimToolkit is the full name, so it's easier to find it online) to show its growing support for additional container tools and runtimes in the cloud native ecosystem.

Slim is now a CNCF Sandbox project. It was created by Kyle Quest and it's been improved by many contributors. The project is supported by Slim.AI.

Containers on a diet with Kyle Quest (Ship It! #95) podcast

WWW, from 1991

Happy birthday to the World Wide Web!

On 30 April 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web (WWW) software in the public domain.

Browse the first website and learn about the history of the WWW on CERN's website.

the original! The World Wide Web project

link from Hacker News Submissions from cern.ch | Hacker News

GoLang examples

Go by Example

Go is an open source programming language designed for building simple, fast, and reliable software. Please read the official documentation to learn a bit about Go code, tools packages, and modules.

Go by Example is a hands-on introduction to Go using annotated example programs.

Go Web Examples - Learn Web Programming in Go by Examples

Questions from a new Go developer (Go Time #308)

Effective Go - The Go Programming Language

This document gives tips for writing clear, idiomatic Go code. It augments the language specification, the Tour of Go, and How to Write Go Code, all of which you should read first.

Category:Go - Rosetta Code

Tesla CyberCab, FSD, $25000, 2025

 Tesla Just ENDED All Other Auto Makers--And No One Noticed! - YouTube

"Tesla has WON Automotive, Game. Set. Match."?

much more computing power available for training and much more data collected,
Tesla Full Self Driving seem to be coming soon.

And with new more affordable vehicles, 3M vehicles / year,
and "CyberCab" self-driving "robo-taxi" option, 
future looks interesting!

Tesla Promises ‘More Affordable Models’ and a ‘Cybercab’ | WIRED

Cybercab? Elon Musk Appears to Share Tesla Robotaxi Name on Earnings Call | PCMag

The Tesla Robotaxi May Be Called The 'Cybercab'

data: "Fortune 500" companies

cmusam/fortune500: Fortune 500 company lists since 1955 in CSV format, mostly parsed using Beautiful Soup @GitHub

What Is a Fortune 500 Company? How Companies Are Ranked
The term Fortune 500 refers to a list of 500 of the largest companies in the United States compiled by Fortune magazine every year. Companies are ranked by their annual revenues for their respective fiscal years. This list includes both public and private companies using publicly available revenue data.


Fortune 500 Full List (2024)

Fortune 500 (2022) Data by 50Pros - Google Sheets

ANSR: GCC (Global Capability Centers)

Microsoft Learning AI Examples

 Microsoft Learning @GitHub

http://www.microsoft.com/learning

MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-ai-services: Lab files for Azure AI Services modules

MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-ai-fundamentals: Azure AI Fundamentals exercises

MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-ai-vision: Lab files for Azure AI Vision modules

MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-ai-language: Lab files for Azure AI Language modules

MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-knowledge-mining: Lab files for Azure AI Knowledge Mining modules

MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-ai-studio: Practical exercises for Azure AI Studio training

MicrosoftLearning/MSLearn-Develop-AI-Agents-with-Azure-OpenAI-and-Semantic-Kernel-SDK: This repo contains starter code for the learning path module exercises.

MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-ai-document-intelligence: Lab files for Azure AI Document Intelligence modules

MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-generative-ai: Exercises for generative AI modules on Microsoft Learn

MicrosoftLearning/advanced-gen-ai

Gleam prog.language in Rust => Erlang, JavaScript

a new functional prog. lang...

no if statement, no (for) loops!

Run Gleam run with Louis Pilfold (Changelog Interviews #588). (good podcast)

with the creator of the Gleam programming language; a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it’s written in Rust. 

...inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, what’s next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server.


Gleam.run

"The power of a type system, the expressiveness of functional programming, and the reliability of the highly concurrent, fault tolerant Erlang runtime, with a familiar and modern syntax."

Hello world - The Gleam Language Tour

Gleam @GitHub, Apache2 license (github.com/gleam-lang/gleam)

lustre-labs/lustre @GitHub (MIT license)

✨ Make your frontend shine ✨
A framework for building Web apps in Gleam!

Sponsor Louis on GitHub Sponsors

Giacomo Cavalieri

Case expressions - The Gleam Language Tour

import gleam/int

import gleam/io

pub fn main() {

  let x = int.random(5)

  io.debug(x)

  let result = case x {

    // Match specific values

    0 -> "Zero"

    1 -> "One"

    // Match any other value

    _ -> "Other"

  }

  io.debug(result)

}

Recursion in Gleam on Exercism

Gleam has no special syntax for looping, so all looping is done with recursion.

pub fn list_length(list: List(String)) -> Int {
  case list {
    [] -> 0
    [_, ..rest] -> 1 + list_length(rest)
  }
}

Aspect-Oriented Programming in DotNet with Metalama

.NET Rocks! Aspect-Oriented Programming in 2024 with Gael Fraiteur

Metalama, a totally new approach to code generation and architecture validation inspired by AOP and based on Roslyn (C# compiler)

PostSharp

• 
  metalama
  Write and maintain less code by eliminating boilerplate, generating it dynamically during compilation, typically reducing code lines and bugs by 15%.
• ArchUnitNET
• Roslyn Analyzers
• metalama on GitHub
• LINQPad
• Metalama Slack Channel

Node.js 22 released + JSR

with more competition (bun.js, Dino/JSR etc), node team is more active...

 Node.js 22 Available Now | OpenJS Foundation

The release of Node.js 22 is available now! ​​Highlights in Node.js 22 include require()ing ESM graphs, WebSocket client, updates of the V8 JavaScript engine, and more!

JSR Is Not Another Package Manager

by Ryan Dahl, creator of node.js and Deno (ts/js)

JSR fundamentally improves the code distribution process by streamlining complexities that have long plagued developers. By being ESM-only and TypeScript-first, JSR eradicates the frustrating juggling of package.json configurations and the labyrinthine tsconfig compiler options.

IBM += HashiCorp - $6.4B

IBM earnings top estimates, acquiring HashiCorp for $6.4B

IBM nearing deal for cloud software provider HashiCorp, source says | Reuters

HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation

web: Async WASM: WebAssembly JSPI in Chrome

WebAssembly JSPI is going to origin trial · V8

WebAssembly’s JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API is entering an origin trial, with Chrome release M123. What that means is that you can test whether you and your users can benefit from this new API.

JSPI is an API that allows so-called sequential code – that has been compiled to WebAssembly – to access Web APIs that are asynchronous. Many Web APIs are crafted in terms of JavaScript Promises: instead of immediately performing the requested operation they return a Promise to do so. When the action is finally performed, the browser’s task runner invokes any callbacks with the Promise. JSPI hooks into this architecture to allow a WebAssembly application to be suspended when the Promise is returned and resumed when the Promise is resolved.

You can find out more about JSPI and how to use it here and the specification itself is here.

Saving Open Source? Terraform, Redis

The threat to open source comes from within
by FORREST BRAZEAL

Post | LinkedIn

OpenTofu Project was recently made aware of a letter by HashiCorp’s lawyers, alleging that OpenTofu was not respecting the terms of its BSL license governing its Terraform codebase

OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork | InfoWorld

Redis is forked | ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰

In a pattern that has previously happened for Elasticsearch and Terraform, and one that was extremely predictable, Redis is now forked at least three different ways - the original Redis, now no longer under BSD, Valkey, under BSD and led by previous contributors to Redis from AWS and other companies, and Redict, under GPL, led by an open-source coalition. Both of these licenses allow commercial reuse.

Tesla Model 3 Performance: 0-60 in 2.9 seconds; FSD

2024 Tesla Model 3 Performance: 0-60 in 2.9 seconds! - YouTube

by Auto Focus

Tesla officially unveils new Model 3 Performance with 0-60 mph in 2.9 sec | Electrek

Big car maker to license Tesla's ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech as Musk warns rivals - YouTube

AI tool Matterport: 3D space => "virtual twin"

3D Camera and Virtual Tour Platform - Matterport

Whether you want to give buyers the feeling of being in a new home, help guests start picturing their stay, or showcase the wonders of your venue to event planners and patrons—Matterport 3D virtual tours can help you do more business, faster.

node.js NPM => "VLT" ?

Introducing the Vlt (/vōlt/) Team — Last summer, Darcy Clarke (who used to work on the npm CLI team) wrote about a massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem around the security of manifests. Now, he’s teamed up with npm creator Isaac Z. Schlueter and fellow npm CLI team alumnus Ruy Adorno to work on… a new package manager and registry. 

• Isaac Z. Schlueter: creator of npm, former CEO of npm Inc. & Principal Engineer at GitHub post-acquisition; Previously led the Node.js project.
  
  
• Darcy Clarke: previously, Staff Engineering Manager for both npm & gh CLI teams at GitHub, npm Inc. & Co-Founder of Themify; Passionate contributor to OpenJS Foundation projects & standards WGs.
  
  
• Ruy Adorno: Node.js TSC member & Staff Software Engineer joining directly from Google. Previously, Ruy lead key product ships as part of the npm CLI team at GitHub, npm Inc. & numerous startups.

Node.js: The Documentary | An origin story - YouTube

Back in 2008, most people thought of JavaScript as just a client-side language. But when Google's V8 appeared, young developer Ryan Dahl made the connection between non-blocking servers, V8, and JavaScript. It was by combining these key elements that he was able to create the now hugely popular Node.js. What young Ryan Dahl probably didn't expect was how much forking drama would follow.

story: Micro-Soft

another excellent podcast story

 Microsoft: The Complete History and Strategy @Acquired Podcast

...The company that invented the software business model. The company that so thoroughly and completely dominated every conceivable competitor that the United States government intervened and kneecapped it… yet it’s STILL the most valuable company in the world today.

Congress changing copyright law in 1980 to include “computer programs”

Acquired “classic” on Microsoft’s 1987 acquisition of Forethought / PowerPoint

All episode sources

update:

Open Sourcing DOS 4 - Scott Hanselman's Blog

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

MIT license, X86 assembly

This repo contains the original source-code and compiled binaries for MS-DOS v1.25 and MS-DOS v2.0, plus the source-code for MS-DOS v4.00 jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft.

Mojo in Docker container on Windows

How to install Mojo🔥locally using Docker | by Aleksandr Mironov | MediumMojo is one of the newest programming languages first introduced in 2023
Mojo combines the usability of Python with the performance of C, unlocking unparalleled programmability of AI hardware and extensibility of AI models.

looks like Python, just 1000x faster!
but it does not run on Windows directly, yet
It can in Docker container though

Xanonymous-GitHub/mojo-docker: The dockerfile for using mojo.


Get started with Mojo🔥 | Modular Docs


Mojo🔥 | Modular Docs



Mojo Developer Console


Mojo is not available for Windows, but you can use it on a Linux container or remote system. Here's one way you can do that with WSL2


:Install VS Code, the WSL extension, and the Mojo extension.
Install Ubuntu 22.04 for WSL and open it.
In the Ubuntu terminal, install the Modular CLI:


curl -s https://get.modular.com | sh - modular auth

Command copied to clipboard
Install the Mojo SDK:

modular install mojo

Command copied to clipboard
Open the Ubuntu workspace in VS Code with this:

code .

Command copied to clipboard
Get started with Hello World!

Introduction to Mojo | Modular Docs

Mojo 🔥 - Visual Studio Code extension @ Marketplace

OpenAI Sora Developers talk

 Sora Developers Explain AI Video Generation - YouTube

OpenAI Sora generated TED talks video

TED Talks on X: "What will TED look like in 40 years? For #TED2024, we worked with artist @PaulTrillo and @OpenAI to create this exclusive video using Sora, their unreleased text-to-video model. Stay tuned for more groundbreaking AI — coming soon to https://t.co/YLcO5Ju923! https://t.co/lTHhcUm4Fi" / X

OpenAI just dropped a new Sora video to promote TED Talks — and the video is explosive | Tom's Guide

The video opens with what looks like an explosion, the camera zooms rapidly forward into the explosion and that kicks off a "through the looking glass" like journey of discovery.

China BYD: EV vs ICE

more than 100 EV makers in China is not sustainable,
and BYD is attempting to eliminate most of competition, apparently

BYD reveal e2 crossover EV with Blade battery starting at $12,000 USD - YouTube

DeepMind: AGI = LLMs + Tree Search?

 The Fastest Way to AGI: LLMs + Tree Search – Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind CEO) - YouTube

LLMs embed most of encoded human knowledge

AlphaZero can learn from scratch, including planning, in limited environment

combined, may provide path to AGI

Biotech’s AI Future

Why Nvidia, Google And Microsoft Are Betting Billions On Biotech’s AI Future - YouTube

As language models like ChatGPT and Gemini have ushered in a new age of AI in Silicon Valley, the world’s most powerful tech companies are looking ahead to drug discovery and digital biology. 

NVIDIA Healthcare Launches Generative AI Microservices to Advance Drug Discovery, MedTech and Digital Health | NVIDIA Newsroom

AlphaFold - Google DeepMind

AlphaFold is accelerating research in nearly every field of biology.

Protein folding explained - YouTube

Demis Hassabis explains AlphaFold | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips - YouTube

Chess IoT: Chessup vs chessnut air vs square off

The Smartest Chess Board Ever Made | Square Off

Chessnut Air - Elevate Your Chess Experience | Chessnut Tech

ChessUp | Level up your Chess game | As seen on Shark Tank – Bryght Labs

Chessnut Tech Apps - Enhance Your Chess Experience

Chessup vs chessnut air vs square off swap - Chess Forums - Chess.com

DIY AI: GPT with Excel

Spreadsheets are all you need.ai – A low-code way to learn AI

high-level architecture of GPT-2 and witnessing each phase of the Transformer come to life in an Excel spreadsheet.

Spreadsheets are all you need.ai – A low-code way to learn AI

related to paper that started LLM "revolution"

Transformer — Attention Is All You Need Easily Explained With Illustrations | by Luv Bansal | Medium

Attention is all you need: Discovering the Transformer paper | by Eduardo Muñoz | Towards Data Science

Free Art: Getty

The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like | Open Culture

88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”

Raspberry Pi 5

 Raspberry Pi 5 8GB

Zoox robotaxi

Amazon’s weird toaster-shaped robotaxi hits the road in a ‘first’ for the company - The Verge

Zoox said its steering wheel- and pedal-less autonomous vehicle is
the first ‘purpose-built’ robotaxi to operate on public roads.

Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, said that its toaster-shaped driverless vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals was approved to drive on public roads with passengers in California.

DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System

DBOS-project/dbos-project.github.io: A Database-oriented Operating System @GitHub

DBOS | A Database-Oriented Operating System

DBOS

Java + C++

The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. But what if the operating system is the problem?

We are so used to thinking of the operating system as the foundation of the system that this kind of talk seems more weird than it does heresy, but make no mistake. When Michael Stonebraker and Matei Zaharia and a team of techies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University are involved in creating a new operating system, it is definitely going to be heresy.

Stonebraker says that the spark for the idea for DBOS, which is short for database operating system, came when he was listening to a talk by Zacharia, who among other things was the creator of the Spark in-memory database while at the AMPLab at the University of California Berkeley and the co-founder and chief technology officer of Databricks, which has commercialized Spark.

Michael Stonebraker - Wikipedia

Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational databases. He is also the founder of many database companies, including Ingres Corporation, Illustra, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems, Tamr, Vertica and VoltDB, and served as chief technical officer of Informix. For his contributions to database research, Stonebraker received the 2014 Turing Award, often described as "the Nobel Prize for computing.

DBOS - Wikipedia

DBOS is a Database-Oriented Operating System designed to simplify and improve the scalability, security and resilience of large-scale distributed applications.[1][2] It started in 2020 as a joint open source project with MIT, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University, after a brainstorm between Michael Stonebraker and Matei Zaharia on how to scale and improve scheduling and performance of millions of Apache Spark tasks.

data tool: Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg - Apache Iceberg


Iceberg at Netflix and Beyond with Ryan Blue - Software Engineering Daily

Apache Iceberg is an open source high-performance format for huge data tables. Iceberg enables the use of SQL tables for big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark and Hive to safely work with the same tables, at the same time.

apache/iceberg: Apache Iceberg @GitHub

Iceberg is a high-performance format for huge analytic tables. Iceberg brings the reliability and simplicity of SQL tables to big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark, Trino, Flink, Presto, Hive and Impala to safely work with the same tables, at the same time.

Spec - Apache Iceberg

Version 1 of the Iceberg spec defines how to manage large analytic tables using immutable file formats: Parquet, Avro, and ORC.

PC mini vs Mac mini

 Amazon.com: Beelink Mini PC SER6 6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 Processor(8C/16T, up to 4.9GHz) 32GB DDR5 1TB SSD Radeon 680M Graphics Micro Computer, HDMI 2.1/USB4/WiFi6/BT 5.2, Home&Office Mini Desktop Computers : Electronics

$495, 32 GB RAM, 1000 GB SSD, AMD Razen 9 CPU (Windows 11)

Amazon.com: Apple 2023 Mac Mini Desktop Computer M2 chip with 8‑core CPU and 10‑core GPU, 8GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD Storage, Gigabit Ethernet. Works with iPhone/iPad : Electronics

$549, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, Apple M2 CPU (Mac OS)

next gen CPU

Amazon.com: Beelink SER7 Mini PC, AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS(4nm, 8C/16T) up to 5.1GHz, Mini Computer 32GB DDR5 RAM 1TB M.2 NVME SSD, Desktop PC 4K@144Hz Quad Display, Mini Gaming Computer WiFi6/BT5.2/2.5Gbps : Electronics

$795, $599 with Prime

goqite: message queue in Go, with SQLite

goqite

goqite (pronounced Go-queue-ite) is a persistent message queue Go library built on SQLite and inspired by AWS SQS (but much simpler).

Solar Eclipse 2024-04-08

NASA Eclipse Explorer: Where & When

2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA (Official Broadcast) - YouTube

Solar eclipse 2024 livestream: How to watch free online with NASA

NASA SVS | How to Make a Box Pinhole Projector

How to make your pinhole projector for eclipse? | Canadian Space Agency

2024 solar eclipse: A guide on where and how to watch it in North America

• Cleveland, Ohio: 15:13 Eastern
• Buffalo, New York: 15:18 Eastern
• Burlington, Vermont: 15:26 Eastern

LIVE! Total Solar Eclipse 2024 - YouTube

NASA to launch 3 rockets during eclipse

Excel + JavaScript, Python

this can be used as a method to fetch data and call APIs, including AI APIs

Excel JavaScript object model in Office Add-ins - Office Add-ins | Microsoft Learn

Announcing Python in Excel

Office Add-ins platform overview - Office Add-ins | Microsoft Learn

Office Add-ins documentation - Office Add-ins | Microsoft Learn

Can I use JS in Excel? - Quora

Developer Program | Microsoft 365 Dev Center

OpenAI Tokenizer

OpenAI Platform

OpenAI's large language models (sometimes referred to as GPT's) process text using tokens, which are common sequences of characters found in a set of text. The models learn to understand the statistical relationships between these tokens, and excel at producing the next token in a sequence of tokens.

You can use the tool below to understand how a piece of text might be tokenized by a language model, and the total count of tokens in that piece of text.

OpenAI - Wikipedia

Byte pair encoding - Wikipedia

How to count tokens with Tiktoken | OpenAI Cookbook

tiktoken/README.md at main · openai/tiktoken

gpt-3-encoder - npm

SWC: JS/TS compilation and bundling dev tool

Rust-based platform for the Web – SWC (swc.rs)

SWC is an extensible Rust-based platform for the next generation of fast developer tools. It's used by tools like Next.js, Parcel, and Deno, as well as companies like Vercel, ByteDance, Tencent, Shopify, and more.

SWC can be used for both compilation and bundling. For compilation, it takes JavaScript / TypeScript files using modern JavaScript features and outputs valid code that is supported by all major browsers.

SWC is 20x faster than Babel on a single thread and 70x faster on four cores.

swc-project/swc: Rust-based platform for the Web @GitHub

testing - Jest memory leak issue - Stack Overflow

HTMX vs React

Most of modern "SPA" web applications are very large, while base JS libraries are not.

Could it be that some building blocks are missing in those libs to enable making simpler and smaller apps?
Something like HTML extended, standard web components libs?

HTMX vs React: A Complete Comparison - Semaphore

             : HTMX : React
Weight : 2.9 kB : 6.4 kB

MFA / 2FA for node.js: Speakeasy, otplib

speakeasy - npm

Speakeasy is a one-time passcode generator, ideal for use in two-factor authentication, that supports Google Authenticator and other two-factor devices.

195K downloads/week, MIT license

speakeasyjs/speakeasy: **NOT MAINTAINED** Two-factor authentication for Node.js. One-time passcode generator (HOTP/TOTP) with support for Google Authenticator. @GitHub

How to Implement Multi-Factor Authentication in NodeJS Applications | by Ashokkumar Nandam | Medium

TOTP (Time-Based One-Time Password) is a widely-used algorithm for implementing MFA. It generates a unique one-time password (OTP) for the user, which expires after a short period of time.

javascript - How to add Google Authenticator to my website? - Stack Overflow

otplib - npm

Time-based (TOTP) and HMAC-based (HOTP) One-Time Password library

otplib is a JavaScript One Time Password (OTP) library for OTP generation and verification.

It implements both HOTP - RFC 4226 and TOTP - RFC 6238

393K downloads / week, MIT license

Earthquakes in New Jersey

Latest Earthquakes @ USGS

M 4.8 - 7 km N of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

magnitude 4.8
7 km N of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

2024-04-05 14:23:20 (UTC)
40.683°N 74.753°W
4.7 km depth

magnitude 2.2
5 km NNE of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
2024-03-14 19:00:39 (UTC)


N.J. earthquake rocks East Coast - nj.com

Earthquake shakes parts of New Jersey | PIX11


Beemerville Volcano is New Jersey’s Own Geologic Hotspot - New Jersey Digest
The Beemerville Volcano, more commonly known as Rutan Hill, is New Jersey’s resident—and only—volcanic site. The hill is located in Colesville, New Jersey and is only one remnant of the Garden State’s complex geologic past. Standing at an elevation of 1,020 feet tall, Rutan Hill (thankfully) has been dormant for over 400 million years.
Rutan Hill - Wikipedia

JS/TS: node.js NPM => deno JSR

JSR: What We Know So Far About Deno’s New JavaScript Package Registry - Socket

JSR, a new package registry from the Deno team, aims to address npm’s limitations but the JavaScript community is concerned about ecosystem fragmentation.

The JavaScript community is buzzing about JSR, a new package registry from the team behind Deno, a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly based on the V8 JavaScript engine and Rust.

Infrastructure-from-Code: IfC

clever idea, but it needs a better name :)

State of Infrastructure-from-Code 2023 - Klotho

Infrastructure-from-Code (IfC) is a process that analyzes your application code to infer the cloud resources you need, and then creates and maintains them without you having to manually define them.

Infrastructure from Code: the New Wave of Cloud Infrastructure Management - InfoQ

 Infrastructure as Code Is Dead: Long Live Infrastructure from Code - The New Stack

"Managing, maintaining and deploying applications and infrastructure securely and consistently remains an incredibly complicated challenge."

Despite the clear benefits to scale and automation that come with IaC, it remains very complex because cloud infrastructure is complex and constantly changing.

Infrastructure from code is a new way of thinking about and working with infrastructure provisioning, one that puts the application code at the heart of everything. Rather than creating configuration for infrastructure using version-controlled golden templates, you generate the infrastructure your application needs based on the version of your application being deployed (using AI)

pglite: Postgres in WASM for TypeScript

electric-sql/pglite: Lightweight Postgres packaged as WASM into a TypeScript library for the browser, Node.js, Bun and Deno

PGlite is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript client library that enables you to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js and Bun, with no need to install any other dependencies. It is only 3.7mb gzipped.

electric-sql/electric: Local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps. Build reactive, realtime, local-first apps directly on Postgres.

Local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps. Build reactive, realtime, local-first apps directly on Postgres.

Local-first is a new development paradigm where your app code talks directly to an embedded local database and data syncs in the background via active-active database replication. Because the app code talks directly to a local database, apps feel instant. Because data syncs in the background via active-active replication it naturally supports multi-user collaboration and conflict-free offline.

Dynamics 365 @ Microsoft Learn

Dynamics 365 documentation - Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Learn

Discover how to deploy, customize, manage, and use Microsoft Dynamics 365 services and applications. Get documentation, training, sample code, tutorials, and more.

ONNX.AI

ONNX | Home

Open Neural Network Exchange

The open standard for machine learning interoperability

ONNX is an open format built to represent machine learning models. ONNX defines a common set of operators - the building blocks of machine learning and deep learning models - and a common file format to enable AI developers to use models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers.

ONNX | About

ONNX models: Optimize inference - Azure Machine Learning | Microsoft Learn

Yann Lecun | Objective-Driven AI

Yann Lecun | Objective-Driven AI: Towards AI systems that can learn, remember, reason, and plan - YouTube

Speaker: Yann Lecun, New York University & META 

Title: Objective-Driven AI: Towards AI systems that can learn, remember, reason, and plan 

Abstract: How could machines learn as efficiently as humans and animals? How could machines learn how the world works and acquire common sense? How could machines learn to reason and plan? Current AI architectures, such as Auto-Regressive Large Language Models fall short. I will propose a modular cognitive architecture that may constitute a path towards answering these questions. The centerpiece of the architecture is a predictive world model that allows the system to predict the consequences of its actions and to plan a sequence of actions that optimize a set of objectives. The objectives include guardrails that guarantee the system's controllability and safety. The world model employs a Hierarchical Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (H-JEPA) trained with self-supervised learning. The JEPA learns abstract representations of the percepts that are simultaneously maximally informative and maximally predictable. The corresponding working paper is available here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=BZ5a1...

Slides:

lecun-20240328-harvard.pdf

Amazon AI: Olympus + Anthropic

 Amazon builds Olympus AI model to compete with Anthropic, OpenAI - The Verge

"With its multibillion-dollar bet on Anthropic and its forthcoming Olympus model, Amazon is pushing hard to be a leader in AI.

Amazon completed the second phase of a deal announced last September, when it committed to investing up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic. The additional $2.75 billion invested is Amazon’s largest check ever into another company and yet another signal of how critical the development of large language models has become to Big Tech."

Anthropic has meanwhile agreed to spend $4 billion on AWS over the next several years.

---

so technically Amazon & Microsoft are giving money to startups to "rent back" their own infrastructure.

and at the same time doing some in-house development...

Amazon Olympus (large language model) – Dr Alan D. Thompson – Life Architect

Dr Alan D. Thompson – Life Architect

Alan D. Thompson | LinkedIn

Dr from maybe this? Graduate Programs, Emerson College

Bun.js for Windows

Bun.js version 1.1 is released, and it now also natively supports Windows.
Bun is an alternative for node.js, mostly compatible API, but much faster.
Written in Rust

Bun is it NOT using V8 JS engine as node.js and Deno,
instead using JavaScriptCore from WebKit and Safari.
Reason: performance.

It will be very interesting to see node.js team's response

Bun (software) - Wikipedia

Bun 1.1 | Bun Blog

Bun is a fast, all-in-one toolkit for running, building, testing, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript, from a single script to a full-stack application. If you're new to Bun, you can learn more in the Bun 1.0 blog post.

Bun 1.1: Bundows is here - YouTube

Installation | Bun Docs

Bun (@bunjavascript) / X

Bun for Windows currently passes 98% of Bun’s test suite. Bun v1.1 (Bundows)

Write a simple HTTP server | Bun Examples

can even install from nmp

bun - npm

npm install -g bun