We are in the 11th month of 2024, and AI continues to get better.
Starting with ChatGPT first. It can now search the web along with links to relevant resources. ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what you ask, or you can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon.
During GitHub Universe, Thomas announced GitHub Spark - an AI-powered tool for creating and sharing micro apps (“sparks”), which can be tailored to your exact needs and preferences, and are directly usable from your desktop and mobile devices, without needing to write or deploy any code.
GitHub also announced the support of multi-models on copilot including Claude and Gemini:
That was a hell of a week! Now, let’s get to some resources that I found helpful this week.
Learning resources
A Guide to Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling by MongoDB.
CSS Tip - a website to learn about nifty css tips and tricks.
Hands-On Multimodal Retrieval and Interpretability (ColQwen + Vespa) by Antaripa (make sure you follow her if you are into ML)
How to become a good backend engineer by Hussein Nasser.
Miscellaneous resources
➡️ 37 Tips from a Senior Frontend Developer by Ndeye Fatou Diop
➡️ The web dev challenge by Jason Lengstorf. It is a fun challenge where 4 devs get 30 minutes to think of what to build and get 4 hours to actually build it. Watch the Halloween edition here:
➡️ Cool design engineering stuff
➡️ Svelte now has a new CLI 👀
And that’s a wrap for this week! See you next Monday!