Weekly Tech - 13th of January 2025

Is Makefile an issue? What about NPM? Maybe the real problem is the vectors? Yes, this week is about finding issues, ready?

Hi everyone, hope you’re all fine?

New weekly tech and this week, the main topics are back, just for notice, I’ll be off next week, the weekly tech will be back in two weeks on Friday as usual, well, enough talking, let’s star shall we?

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Let’s start with common wisdom and the usage of Makefile (which is not trivial for everyone as we can see), we can also discover how to read thousands of Redis streams at once and let’s finish this section with Arti, a rewrite of Tor in Rust (because speed ans security is the key).

Culture générale

• Is Makefile too hard for beginners? Maybe

• Reading thousands of Redis streams at once

• Arti, a Rust implementation of Tor

• Is npm audit broken? Yes, always was

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Let’s dive into machine learning and why using vectors could lead to issues (even if I’m not convinced that the issue is vectors), we can also divers a feedback from Spotify about using generative “IA” in finance.

Machine learning

• Are vectors flawed? The short answer is yes

• At the end, everything is related to confidence, even generative “IA”

• Meta just unveiled Coconut, its framework to help LLMs using Continuous Latent Space

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Small sidestep on PHP and how to store sessions in Memcache / Redis while using a lock mode.

PHP

• Storing sessions in Memcache or Redis

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Last topic with the discovery of Focus, a CLI that allows you to use Pomodoro via the terminal (which is always a better idea than a GUI).

Tools

• Focus, a CLI tool to help you focus on productivity using Pomodoro approach

That’s all for this week, share, like and comment if you’ve liked this weekly tech, on my side, let’s discover new topics in two weeks, since then, have a great weekend and a great week.

See you soon.