We are in times of turmoil in the tech world right now. On the one side, we have the AI hype in full swing. On the other, companies are heavily “healthsizing”. I just went through a round of job interviews as a prime candidate and wrote up why I didn’t take some jobs. It made […]

JavaScript now has a way to change elements, sort, reverse and splice arrays without changing the original, thus giving it immutability. Four new methods allow you to change arrays without having to create a copy first. The new methods are `with()`, `toSorted()`, `toReversed()` and `toSpliced()`. No need to create a copy with `[...arr]` first. Only […]

A question I came across the other day during a JavaScript application test was this: How would you select the n-th character from the word “Example”? The fun thing here is that there are lots of different ways to do that. The one I always forget about is that you can access the index of […]

End of this month is my last day at Microsoft. I didn’t plan this. My original plan was to keep being a representative of that company and work on the amazing products it builds. Market forces, however, caused yet another reorg and as there was no other department with openings for remote work in Germany, […]

You can download the GPT model and interrogate local files using Python without having to send any data to the cloud. PrivateGPT is a python script to interrogate local files using GPT4ALL, an open source large language model. It is pretty straight forward to set up: Clone the repo Download the LLM – about 10GB […]