veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

larkintuckerllc

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Animated, Dimensions, Keyboard, StyleSheet, TextInput, UIManager } from 'react-native';

const { State: TextInputState } = TextInput;

export default class App extends Component {
  state = {
    shift: new Animated.Value(0),
  };

rochapablo

...

<permission
        android:name="android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL"
        android:protectionLevel="signature" />

...

<activity android:name=".UnlockScreenActivity" />

ziluvatar

/**
 * Example to refresh tokens using https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken
 * It was requested to be introduced at as part of the jsonwebtoken library,
 * since we feel it does not add too much value but it will add code to mantain
 * we won't include it.
 *
 * I create this gist just to help those who want to auto-refresh JWTs.
 */

const jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');

lelandrichardson

// This file allows us to inspect the traffic going over the Native <-> JS bridge, and can be
// helpful for debugging. Setting this to true should never be committed to git
const ENABLE_BRIDGE_DEBUGGER = false; // <-- THIS SHOULD NOT BE TRUE IN MASTER!!!!

// if true, function arguments will get pretty printed
const PRETTY_PRINT = false;

// enable this if you want to ignore EVERY event, except for the ones that match the `FOCUSED_*`
// constants. If true, you configure what you want to see. If false, you configure what you DONT
// want to see.

Rich-Harris

Stuff I wish I'd known sooner about service workers

I recently had several days of extremely frustrating experiences with service workers. Here are a few things I've since learned which would have made my life much easier but which isn't particularly obvious from most of the blog posts and videos I've seen.

I'll add to this list over time – suggested additions welcome in the comments or via twitter.com/rich_harris.

Use Canary for development instead of Chrome stable

Chrome 51 has some pretty wild behaviour related to console.log in service workers. Canary doesn't, and it has a load of really good service worker related stuff in devtools.

jqtrde

Libraries for a modern geospatial workflow

Distribution

• Writing, Running, and Distributing
• Tox driven development
• Publishing python libraries

Numpy

chantastic

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

larahogan

Native app performance metrics

This is a draft list of what we're thinking about measuring in Etsy's native apps.

Currently we're looking at how to measure these things with Espresso and Kif (or if each metric is even possible to measure in an automated way). We'd like to build internal dashboards and alerts around regressions in these metrics using automated tests. In the future, we'll want to measure most of these things with RUM too.

Overall app metrics

• App launch time - how long does it take between tapping the icon and being able to interact with the app?
• Time to complete critical flows - using automated testing, how long does it take a user to finish the checkout flow, etc.?
• Battery usage, including radio usage and GPS usage
• Peak memory allocation

sebmarkbage

import { Component } from "React";

export var Enhance = ComposedComponent => class extends Component {
  constructor() {
    this.state = { data: null };
  }
  componentDidMount() {
    this.setState({ data: 'Hello' });
  }
  render() {