DevToolsDigest: Issue #335
This week's digest includes news and resources from Anchor, Hex, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Update to My Tech Writing Gear and Tools
"I’ve recently upgraded some of the hardware I use for work and leisure, so it’s a good time to refresh my list of tech writing gear. At the same time, after working as a documentation engineer, I also picked up new favorite tools, especially AI-powered ones. Some I already use at work, while others I keep for personal projects."
Introducing Anchor’s ACME Relay
The ACME protocol automates obtaining and managing the X.509 certificates needed for TLS encryption. It has near ubiquitous support across languages and frameworks, but remains painful and risky to maintain the complexity on your own, especialy as you scale. Enter Anchor.
Industry Research
Reflections on Unikernels
Unikernels are single-purpose appliances where an application is linked with everything that it needs, including kernel drivers, into a single binary which can be run in the cloud. Unikernels allow us to explore new ideas and remove unnecessary layers of code accumulated over the last several decades.
I'm Sorry, but Those are Vanity Evals
You run the evals. You see how many passed. You make a slick chart benchmarking the new pass rate, pat yourself on the back, and move on. Or you make a change, re-run things, and look at the new number. But what does that number really tell you? Eval pass rate is a textbook vanity metric.
Everyone Can Write a Prompt
When thinking about a large language model input and output, a text prompt is the input the model uses to predict a specific output. You don’t need to be a data scientist or a machine learning engineer – everyone can write a prompt. However, crafting the most effective prompt can be complicated.