Best of Level Up Coding (November 2023)
In this month’s newsletter, we navigate the dynamic world of technology, programming, and investing. We delve into stories of rejection and redemption to explore how some of the tech industry’s biggest players, like Google and Facebook, have overlooked talent that later proved to be transformative. We also explore the nuances of self-taught programming, sharing insights on how to avoid mediocrity and excel in this increasingly popular path. In data science, we present novel and useful data structures, offer tips on bash scripting, and guide you through building SaaS applications using Python. Level up your coding skills with the best articles in AI and programming from the past month.
🏆 Top Articles 🏆
Google Rejected Max Howell (Creator of Homebrew) For Getting This Interview Question Wrong. Can You Solve It? | Dr. Ashish Bamania
4 Weird Signs of a Mediocre Self-Taught Programmer | Sanjay Priyadarshi
Tabula Rasa: How to save your network from the category drama | Salvatore Raieli
I Earned $5,795.00 From One Blog Post Using a Simple Strategy I See Few Writers Sharing. | Jayden Levitt
Unleash Mistral 7B’ Power: How to Efficiently Fine-tune a LLM on Your Own Data | Yanli Liu
My Tips and Tricks for Bash Scripting After Writing Hundreds of Scripts | Tin Plavec
The Programming Language That Every Developer Wants to Use | Oscar Leo
Warren Buffet — “To Become Rich, Buy Stocks Below Their Intrinsic Value.” Here’s How You (Exactly) Find It! | Dr. Ashish Bamania
Build a Data Science SaaS App with Just Python: A Streamlit Guide | Ryan Shrott
Debunking Myths: Common Misunderstandings of Clean Architecture Among Developers | Rafał Zowal
Facebook Rejected Two Programmers Who Later Built A $19 Billion Business And Sold It Back To Them | Dr. Ashish Bamania
Top 8 Kafka Use Cases — Distributed Systems | Mahesh Saini
My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her A Radar | Jacob Bartlett
How Quora Scaled MySQL to 100K+ QPS — Distributed Databases | Mahesh Saini
Chrome DevTools JavaScript Debugging Features For Better Productivity | Shalitha Suranga
How Uber Optimized Cassandra Operations at Scale? — System Design | Mahesh Saini
Integrate AutoGen into your Chatbot: Code Interpreter Clone | Ryan Shrott
JavaScript Chatbot Mastery: Building, Testing, and Growing Your Bot | FardaKarimov
A Simple Event Sourcing Implementation in .NET | Matt Bentley
5 Data Structures That You Probably Aren’t Familiar With (But Are Extremely Useful!) | Dr. Ashish Bamania
Effective Use of Design Patterns in Software Development: Best Practices — Part 1 | Rafał Zowal
How Uber Optimized Cassandra Operations at Scale? — System Design | Mahesh Saini
A Step-by-Step Guide to Runing Mistral-7b AI on a Single GPU with Google Colab | Yanli Liu
Stop Adding Strings Using + in Python!! | Liu Zuo Lin
How to Write Documentation for Your Data Science Projects Using MkDocs | Albers Uzila
Spaces vs. Tabs: The Surprising Impact on Programmer Salaries | Oscar Leo
AMD Is Finally Coming Up To Compete With NVIDIA | Vivek Naskar
The Future of CSS-in-JS: Why It’s More Relevant Than Ever in 2023 | John William
Shapes in CSS | Alvaro Montoro
8 Advanced Python CLI Tricks To Save You From Writing Code | Yang Zhou
12 Cool Less-Known String Methods In Python | Liu Zuo Lin
No-Engineers Guide to AutoTrain: The Easiest Way for Beginners to Fine-Tune Mistral AI! | Yanli Liu
Stop Pip Installing Everything To Your Main Python Interpreter | Liu Zuo Lin
How Grab Designed Low Latency Segmentation Platform — System Design | Mahesh Saini
How to Successfully Run a LLM Fine-Tuning Project: My Personal Insights on Choosing the Right… | Yanli Liu
How to Generate Unique IDs in Distributed Systems: 6 Key Strategies | Phuong Le (@func25)
Zephyr-7B-α, A Low-Cost LLM Can Perform Better Than Llama-70B | Yeyu Huang
I Run a $10,000/Month Business with 0 Employees, Here’s How I Use AI Tools — Part 3 | Nitin Sharma
Implement a Simple Version Control with JavaScript to Understand Git Better! | Poorshad Shaddel
How I Created Easy Gen AI Demos for Non-Technical Colleagues and Users | Yanli Liu
Setting Up a Fully AI-Powered Studio with AutoGen | Yeyu Huang
How To Use LLMs To Turn English Instructions Into Executable SQL | Ahmed Besbes
This Is How I’d Pick My Software Engineering Career If I Had to Start All Over | Rakia Ben Sassi
ChatGPT Vision is Taking Over the Internet — Here Are the Incredible Use Cases That Will Blow Your… | Nitin Sharma
Top 3 Advanced Linux Commands For Text Processing | Dmytro Khmelenko
99% of People Are Clueless About These Mind-Blowing ChatGPT Vision Use Cases! | Nitin Sharma
Boosting Flexibility in .NET Applications: A Guide to Structured Code | Rico Fritzsche
The Return of No-Code Dreams | Rico Fritzsche
ChatDev Customization — Improve The Automated Software Development Agents | Cornellius Yudha Wijaya
Mistral 7B: a New Wind Blowing Away Other Language Models | Salvatore Raieli
ChatGPT Gets an Epic Upgrade — DALL·E 3 for Image Generation | @Nitin Sharma
A/B Testing Study Plan: From Novice to Upper Intermediate Level | Youssef Hosni
Do You Want to Have a Powerful Data Orchestrator for Free? | Luís Oliveira
Evaluation Driven Development, the Swiss Army Knife for RAG Pipelines | Wenqi Glantz
A Brief Introduction to Checksum | Arslan Ahmad
Ultimate Guide to Big Data Sources | Timothy Mugayi
7 Simple Ways You Can Use ChatGPT to Make Your Daily Life Easier | Gencay I.
Web Page Performance | Core Web Vitals | LightHouse | Sonika | @Walmart | FrontEnd Developer | 10 Years
I Gave Myself One Month To Build A Game In Unreal Engine 5 | Keypressing Monkey
Enhancing RAG through LlamaIndex’s Blueprint for Effective Embedding and LLM Fine-Tuning. | Ryan Nguyen
A Game Changer for Code Quality: Pre-Commit in Python | Banias Baabe
A Deep Dive into ClassLoader and Reflection — Dynamic Typing and Runtime Modifiable Classes in Java | Habiba Gamil
Why Organize Code by Technical Concerns | Rico Fritzsche
System Design Concepts: Computer Architecture | Hayk Simonyan
Playing with the GamePad API | Alvaro Montoro
Overemployment Transformed My Life and Career | Mohamed Aboelez
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