tech (18)

Matt Sayar

LLMs aren't just for "sissies"

“... even if [FORTRAN] did work, no respectable programmer would use it -- it was only for sissies!” Richard Hamming, on programming before the invention of one of the first mid-level programming languages History is repeating itself. So many words have been spilled about LLMs…

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Matt Sayar

Simple Wikiclaudia

Have you ever been reading a Wikipedia article and tapped out because it's just too dense and difficult to read? Simple English Wikipedia exists to help make articles easier to read and understand. I sometimes find myself drifting to it for technical concepts, but sometimes…

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Matt Sayar

Sayonara SendGrid; Hello Brevo 

When I wrote my own newsletter email service, I used SendGrid to handle the nitty gritty details of actually sending the emails. If I tried to roll my own email server, I would have to deal with so much nuance around security, spam, and other…

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