Data tool belts, Build Your Own Redis, the giscus comments system, prompt engineering shouldn't exist & ALPACA (News)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Jeremia Kimelman takes stock of his “data tool belt”, Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ is ready to read, giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions, Matt Rickard says prompt engineering shouldn’t be a thing and won’t be a thing in the future & Kolja Lubitz’s ALPACA is engine for building adventure games and interactive comics.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Taking stock of my “data tool belt”
• The “Build Your Own Redis” book is completed
  • free web version
  • purchaseable version
• A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions
• Prompt Engineering Shouldn’t Exist
• The ALPACA game engine
  • Portal Dogs

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!