Weekly Digest #163

Articles

How Big is YouTube?

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Paradigms, Technologies, and Trends

Questionable advice: “my boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. is he right?”

• Hierarchy is a property of self-organizing systems
• Centralizing many or most of the engineer functions into one person lets you take advantage of specialization, as a manager builds relationships and context and improves at their role, and this massively reduces context switching for everyone else.

How to Get Your Work Recognized — 6 Strategies

• Building Technical Expertise
• Writing an Impact Record: Your Brag Document
• Networking and Community Involvement: Expanding Your Tech Circle
• Creating a Personal Brand: Your Professional Identity
• Showcasing Achievements: Making Your Mark Visible
• Workplace Strategies for Recognition: Standing Out in Your Job

Tutorials

Friends don’t let friends make certain types of data visualization — What are they and why are they bad.

Tools

rpi-update, An easier way to update the firmware of your Raspberry Pi

WikiChat, stops the hallucination of large language models by retrieving data from Wikipedia

Off-topic

Psychology of Apple Packaging

How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?