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GPT4All is a tool that allows you to run your own local #ai powered chatbot. No Internet required and no Big Tech watching you. Among other things, you can choose which (pre-trained) models you want to use. It is also possible to add your own local documents so you can
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Warp.dev is a modern terminal application build in Rust, it is fast and easy to work with. If you are still using a more traditional terminal application like iterm, then definitely give warp a try. For some reason I always find myself struggling navigating text in a terminal using
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Most, if not all, engineers at Sourcelabs have been working on systems that have been designed from ground up with a Microservices architecture in mind or monolithic systems that have been decomposed into several smaller (micro)services. One of the most interesting parts of Microservices is dealing with communication between
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This month I had the honor of preparing our internal meetup, topic for this meetup: Python. Not Python from that awesome movie or the Efteling, but Python the programming language. In this blog post I would like to share how I approach my preparation for a meetup. Preparing a meetup
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There is a really interesting interview with Roman Elizarov, the language lead for Kotlin, on the Kotlin by JetBrains YouTube channel. Being a library developer in the past, Roman explains very clearly what the motivation is to include certain features in a library and when to add new features to
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JetBrains offers a great online environment, Kotlin playground, where you can play around and share Kotlin code fragments. This environment offers an option to embed code fragments from the Kotlin Playground into your website using an iframe. This does not always play nicely with Wordpress. Luckily there is a Wordpress
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The last internal meetup of the year normally ends with an awesome company event and a great dinner where we get to enjoy the finest food and maybe a glass of wine or two ;) But not this year, COVID made that impossible, but nevertheless we tried to keep up the
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bol.com, the Netherlands largest online retailer, has been a client of Sourcelabs for many years. Recently we had the opportunity to co-organized a tech day for one of the product areas within bol.com. The primary goal of the day was to have fun and give the teams within
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Building scalable Java applications using Threads can be quite a challenge. Java Threads are also known for using a lot of OS-resources especially comparing them with lightweight alternative like Fibers or Kotlin coroutines (off which we are a huge fan here at Sourcelabs). Project Loom is the promising lightweight JVM
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Kotlin for Spring developers Maandag 9 maart 2020 zal de training Kotlin for Spring developers plaatsvinden op ons kantoor aan de Computerweg 22 in Utrecht. Ben jij een developer die zelfstandig Java applicaties kan ontwikkelen? Je hebt gewerkt met Spring gebaseerde applicaties en je wilt graag met de programmeertaal Kotlin
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Op donderdag 7 november was de training "Kotlin for Spring developers" bij Sourcelabs B.V. op kantoor. In de ochtend stonden de basics van de programmeertaal Kotlin centraal. Theorie werd hierbij afgewisseld met korte opdrachtjes. In de middag hebben de deelnemers in workshop vorm kennisgemaakt met de Kotlin
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Every last Friday of the month we organize an internal Sourcelabs meetup. Main goal of our meetups is to gain new knowledge, share insights, get some hands-on experience with relevant populair technologies, but more importantly have some fun together while doing so. Theme Our meetups are focused around a specific