The Prompt Engineering Playbook For Programmers
- Addy Osmani tl;dr: “As many of us have learned, the quality of the AI’s output depends largely on the quality of the prompt you provide. In other words, prompt engineering has become an essential skill. A poorly phrased request can yield irrelevant or generic answers, while a well-crafted prompt can produce thoughtful, accurate, and even creative code solutions. This write-up takes a practical look at how to systematically craft effective prompts for common development tasks.”featured in #624
The Prompt Engineering Playbook For Programmers
- Addy Osmani tl;dr: “As many of us have learned, the quality of the AI’s output depends largely on the quality of the prompt you provide. In other words, prompt engineering has become an essential skill. A poorly phrased request can yield irrelevant or generic answers, while a well-crafted prompt can produce thoughtful, accurate, and even creative code solutions. This write-up takes a practical look at how to systematically craft effective prompts for common development tasks.”featured in #623
featured in #622
Claude 4 Prompt Engineering Best Practices
tl;dr: “This guide provides specific prompt engineering techniques for Claude 4 models (Opus 4 and Sonnet 4) to help you achieve optimal results in your applications. These models have been trained for more precise instruction following than previous generations of Claude models.”featured in #621
A Simple Search Engine From Scratch
- Max Bernstein tl;dr: A guide to building a simple search engine from scratch using word embeddings (word2vec). It explains embedding words into vectors, computing cosine similarity to rank results, and includes implementations of terminal and web-based interfaces, along with thoughts on evaluation and improvements.featured in #618
A Leap Year Check In Three Instructions
- Falk Hüffner tl;dr: A new approach to checking leap years uses just 3 CPU instructions with magic constants. This is 3.8x faster than traditional methods for random inputs. The algorithm was derived using brute force and the Z3 solver, analyzing binary bit patterns to replicate traditional leap year logic.featured in #617
Making A 3D Modeler, In C, In A Week
- Daniel Hooper tl;dr: “Some view C as a language so simple and raw that you’ll spend all your time working around the language’s lack of built in data structures, and fixing pointer bugs. The truth is that C’s simplicity is a strength. It compiles quickly. Its syntax doesn’t hide complex operations. It’s simple enough that I don’t have to constantly look things up. And I can easily compile it to both native and web assembly. While C has its share of quirks, I avoid them by habits developed over 22 years of use.”featured in #616
Vibe Check: An Enterprise Buyer’s Guide To AI App Generation
- Gibbs Cullen tl;dr: While "vibe coding" accelerates prototyping, without centralized governance it introduces security gaps, tech debt, and fragile deployments. Our buyer’s guide explains why unmanaged AI code generation falls short for enterprises, and what it takes to adopt a governed approach for secure, scalable, production-ready apps.featured in #615
Watch This Short On How To Build B2B Apps With Clerk Organizations
tl;dr: Learn from this preview on how Clerk's Organization feature allows you to easily set up and manage a multi-tenant application for your team.featured in #613
Every Caching Strategy Explained In 5 Minutes
tl;dr: “The Goal: Make things faster and reduce load on primary data stores. Caches offer quicker access and shield your backend from repetitive requests.” The author outlines (1) Cache-Aside (Lazy Loading). (2) Read-Through. (3) Write-Through. (4) Write-Behind (Write-Back). (5) Write-Around.featured in #608