Hey there! In today’s blog post, I dive into some captivating reads. From building with LLMs over the past year to enhancing Python with more-itertools, I’ve got some techy insights for you. There’s also a touching piece on leadership through ice cream, communication tweaks for big results, and even a paradox in evolution. Plus, don’t miss a fun look at controlling Taylor Swift concert wristbands!

• What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I):
• More Itertools — more-itertools 10.2.0 documentation: Python’s itertools library is a gem – you can compose elegant solutions for a variety of problems with the functions it provides. In more-itertools we collect additional building blocks, recipes, and routines for working with Python iterables.
• Ice Cream and Leadership: creating a culture of inclusion and approachability
• Four Communication Problems You Need to Address: Small changes can yield big results
• Scientists Found a Paradox in Evolution—and It May Become the Next Rule of Biology: A new study unexpectedly reveals that cells thrive on chaos.
• Trying to buy a house is ‘playing a game you can’t win’: The US housing market has changed dramatically since the pandemic – an issue looming over the election.
• Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”:
• Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero: Many large concerts feature wristbands that light up on command. They are used to produce varied visual effects across a stadium. One compan…
• The pizza shop lesson. Why news media needs to offer more than ads:
• Knewsies: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again,” Henry Thomas Palmer. Mr. Palmer was a printer, author, and educational reformer.