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TOON, or Token-Oriented Object Notation, is a new format designed to reduce token usage when passing information to large language models (LLMs), thereby reducing cost. Passing data to LLMs is essential to provide the context needed so that it understands what is being asked of it. That data might be a simple chat message, like…
MACH stands for Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless and joins a rich family of similar acronyms from tech history such as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS). MACH describes a set of high level architectural considerations but is not very prescriptive about how these are achieved, nor does it dictate…
Open Banking has transformed the financial services landscape and led to more innovation in the past 5 years than in the previous 250 years. Now the UK is set to supercharge that innovation with a new phase of accelerated innovation and an explosion of capabilities.
Despite sounding like a really bad Marvel rip-off, ActivityPub and the Fediverse might in fact be the next big platform shift for the internet.
On 4th May 2023, a leaked memo from a Google employee declared that the company “has no moats” when it comes to AI (artificial intelligence). A moat, in business strategy circles at least, means a competitive advantage that you can use to protect your business model. It means different things in castle design – in…
Today’s challenge: Serve a public API over HTTPS from a Raspberry Pi. I’ll follow up with an article about containerising the app and running it from docker on the Pi. This article is a fast-paced guide to getting started without stopping to dwell on the details. Some details will be mopped up in the last…
Remember when the internet was in its infancy? We all had to put up with little 468 x 90 banner ads everywhere you looked – and sometimes we clicked them because we didn’t know better. As time went on we grew smarter, we were able to tell the bad adverts from the good, and the…
Google do a lot of good things. They host free webfonts to make the web a nicer place to be. Their cloudy PaaSÂ service, Engine Yard, gets rave reviews. Their maps are better than anyone’s, their mobile OS is the most popular in the world, and their photo hosting offer is second to none. But they…