urban weekly #71

How Are Images REALLY Stored? - Learning about image formats. images

Unexpected Benefits of Building Your Own Tools - Recently I've been thinking a lot about some of the tools I've made, and I have found an insight from game development that I think can apply to the software engineering industry as a whole. engineering

A Little Bit of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback - A short introduction to RLHF and post-training focused on language models. rlhf

Lume - A lightweight CLI and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) natively on Apple Silicon. virtualization

Earthstar - A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users. databases