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2022

Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3

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Riley Goodside, yesterday:

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10:20 pm / 12th September 2022 / definitions, security, sql-injection, ai, gpt-3, openai, prompt-engineering, prompt-injection, generative-ai, riley-goodside, llms

2021

The Baked Data architectural pattern

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I’ve been exploring an architectural pattern for publishing websites over the past few years that I call the “Baked Data” pattern. It provides many of the advantages of static site generators while avoiding most of their limitations. I think it deserves to be used more widely.

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8:23 pm / 28th July 2021 / definitions, design-patterns, sqlite, static-generator, datasette, baked-data

PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its

Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions.

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7:13 pm / 1st July 2021 / continuous-deployment, continuous-integration, definitions, software-engineering, pytest, github-actions, django-sql-dashboard, yagni, pagni

2017

The denormalized query engine design pattern

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I presented this talk at DjangoCon 2017 in Spokane, Washington. Below is the abstract, the slides and the YouTube video of the talk.

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10:49 pm / 16th August 2017 / architecture, definitions, denormalisation, design-patterns, django, djangocon, elasticsearch, my-talks

2007

SOA [...] is the generally held belief that when implementing systems one should expose system functionality for general consumption directly from the network, as well as or instead of burying it behind a user interface.

— Pete Lacey

# 6th October 2007, 1:44 am / service-oriented-architecture, definitions, pete-lacey

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