Hiranya Jayathilaka

Santana Row if you have time for a dinner outing and/or shopping. Castro Street area in Mtn View is also really nice. Loads of hiking trails around -- see bahiker.com

See you there ☺️

When To Use LLM's, And When Not To Discover when to use LLMs for data tasks like structuring and classification, and when to opt for deterministic systems.

"In a world where folks are throwing LLMs at every problem, being able to sniff out when not to use them is a valuable skill."

Love DS9. Dominion war is one of the best long running storylines of Star Trek canon IMO.

Tsunami: Race Against Time The definitive story of the deadly 2004 tsunami, following the wave minute by minute, with unseen archive video and untold stories of survival.

www.natgeotv.com/za/special/t...

Great documentary. It illustrates the horror of the whole event, while underscoring human determination and the acts of compassion -- both during and after the natural disaster.

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Stone sculpture of standing Buddha

Standing Buddha of Awukana, Sri Lanka. Circa 5th century.

Entrance to an old stone prayer room

Series of standing Buddha statues along a cave wall

Statue of sleeping Buddha carved into a cave wall

Statue of meditating Buddha

At the ancient Ridee Viharaya (Silver temple) of Sri Lanka.

Map showing the shaking from the M7.0 earthquake.

A M7.0 earthquake occurred today off the coast of Cape Mendocino about 100 km southwest of Ferndale, California. This is in the vicinity of the Mendocino triple junction, which is where the Pacific, North America, and Juan de Fuca/Gorda plates meet.

10 AM me - Deploying to prod on Friday. What could go wrong?

11 AM me - A lot apparently. And thank heavens for one-click rollbacks.

So Rebel Moon 2 is like the Seven Samurai (Kurasowa), but in space? Not that it's a bad thing. Just curious if anybody else noticed the resemblance.

This last week I rolled out 3 different experiments for internal testing. By the end of the week I merged them into a single large experiment, and promoted it for public/external testing. If all goes well it will graduate into a bonafide feature next week 🤞

Experiments screen in the shortwave email app

This is one of the best things we've built into our app. It allows us to rapidly test and iterate on new features, often with no impact on service and external users. And we have at least a dozen different experiments in progress at any given time.

Installer screen for the Shortwave app on MacOS

We just shipped a desktop app for Shortwave (for MacOS). If you use Gmail for work, and looking for a better email management experience with AI and team collaboration features, check this out -- www.shortwave.com/download/

Third: A culture of trust and accountability in the team.

Empower and encourage team members to ship early and often. Trust them to do the right thing. And if something goes wrong (we all make mistakes), trust them to take ownership and do the needful to fix things asap.

Second: Local testing and dogfooding as a way of life.

Make the entire product stack locally testable end-to-end. Test new features and other critical changes internally by rolling them out just to your team members. Iterate aggressively.

I think it's a combination of few things.

First: automating the mundane. Heavily invest into CI/CD. Adopt tools for automated testing and code health enforcement. Build simple flows for one-click roll outs and stress-free roll back.

And on the UI side it is quite a thrill to start with some basic @figma.com mocks, and evolve it towards working @react.dev code.

Working on a brand new feature at work, and it's giving me strong greenfield project vibes. A rare feeling when working on a fairly mature (~4 years old) codebase as ours.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

Deployment velocity/flexibility is such a super power to have as a small team in tech. It's one of the key differences between my current startup and my old gig at Google. I often think about this -- usually as I'm about to submit the 3rd or even 4th prod deploy of the day.

The Outer Peristyle garden at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles

The Central Garden at the Getty Center in Los Angeles

Hey @bsky.app! We are Getty, an arts org dedicated to inspiring human connections and mutual understanding through #art.

You may have visited our two museums in Los Angeles, the #GettyCenter or #GettyVilla, or seen the impact of our work in cultural heritage globally.

👋 Nice to be here.

Note to self: Write a new article detailing our latest AI infrastructure.

In the year since we published that article, we've made major changes to both our app and the AI infrastructure. In fact, we don't use anything described in that article anymore. But I think it's still a great place somebody to start learning about applying #RAG over large, evolving datasets.

A deep dive into the world's smartest email AI A detailed look under the hood of how the Shortwave AI assistant works.

Old but good one -- How we built a smart #email #AI assistant.
www.shortwave.com/blog/deep-di...

One of the best languages for backend and server-side development imo. I don't get to use it a whole lot these days. But still a personal favorite. Happy 15 Gophers 🎉

Nice! Would love to see more platform and framework devs here. Anybody has a good starter pack?

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

Starter packs are such a good idea. Already found a bunch of interest groups and communities that I'd love to follow.
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better.

Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful

Something's quite busted with my Intellij + Vim bindings + Copilot setup. Scrambled auto completions, mysterious vim mode changes and more. Got to sink some time to figure out what's going on 😐