12 February 2021

49 links · Friday

tensorflow/swift

Swift for TensorFlow. Contribute to tensorflow/swift development by creating an account on GitHub.

SerenityOS - Writing a full chain exploit

I recently came across SerenityOS when it was featured in hxp CTF and then on LiveOverflow’s YouTube channel. SerenityOS is an open source operating system written from scratch by Andreas Kling and now has a strong and active community behind it. If you’d like…

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BFF.DataVirtualizingCollection - BuiltWithDot.Net

Why data virtualization? Say, you want to display a table from a database which contains thousands of rows in your WPF-application. If an ordinary list is used in combination of a DataGrid, then all the rows have to be loaded into memory. Even though, the a…

Coding Adventure: Chess AI

My attempt at creating a little chess playing program!Think you can beat it? Give it a go over here: https://sebastian.itch.io/chess-aiIf you'd like to suppo...

Self-Organising Textures

Neural Cellular Automata learn to generate textures, exhibiting surprising properties.

HttPlaceholder - BuiltWithDot.Net

The inspiration for this project At my current job, we develop and maintain a lot of web applications. These web applications have a lot of dependencies on other web services. So I thought: instead of running all these dependent web services on the local dev …

The COM static store, part 5: Using COM weak references | The Old New Thing

Last time, we looked at aggregating a bunch of things into a single object so you can access them all at once. That improves the efficiency of accessing objects in the COM static store, but you can do even better. Use a COM weak reference.

Release OpenSleigh v0.11.0 · mizrael/OpenSleigh

You can download this release from Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/OpenSleigh.Core/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/OpenSleigh.Persistence.InMemory/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/OpenSleigh.P...

jimblandy/context-switch

Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time. - jimblandy/context-switch

Warning: Weird Wormholes! - BuiltWithDot.Net

Warning: Weird Wormholes! is a space adventure roguelike where you're tasked with fighting off a stealthy alien invasion. The goal is to destroy all the enemy shipyards, but since they're cloaked, you have to search carefully for them! This game is actually…

Chick Corea

Introducing an exclusive documentary special taking viewers behind the scenes with Grammy Award-winning jazz legend, Chick Corea and the making of “The Spanish Heart Band – Antidote” album. An unprecedented, intimate look featuring stories and explorations fro…

Xamarin Community Toolkit Extravaganza!

It's the Xamarin Community Toolkit extravaganza! The toolkit it out! It's glorious! You should use it today because it'll solve all of your Xamarin app development needs! .... or it'll at least make your life a bit easier ...

Cofoundry CMS - BuiltWithDot.Net

Cofoundry is an open source .NET Core CMS designed to work unobtrusively with your application. It's simple to install and our code-first approach to content and feature definition means we can optimize both the developer and content editor experience witho…

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Building A Custom Event Hubs Event Processor with .NET | Azure SDK Blog

Azure Event Hubs is a highly scalable publish-subscribe service that can ingest millions of events per second and stream them to multiple consumers. This lets you process and analyze the massive amounts of data produced by your connected devices and applicatio…

Clippings.io for Kindle - BuiltWithDot.Net

Whether you are a student, author, academic or casual reader clippings.io provides all of the functionality you'll need to manage the clippings you make on your Kindle. The app allows you to not only organize but also export your clippings to Evernote, Word…

Frustum planes from the projection matrix

Another quick one. Now this is another old trick, but it’s easy to derive and still not as well-known as it deserves to be, so here goes. All modern graphics APIs ultimately expect vertex coo…

The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years

Much has been covered about developer salaries based on coding language, location, job title, and so on. But little has been done to chart the rise and fall of developer salaries over the years - until now.

Art of Sustaining at Things – Unstructed.tech

We tend to believe that relying on motivation is a good way to keep doing things. This is utterly wrong. Motivation is a spark, not a fuel.

#1 Riding with Peloton - Back of the Napkin VC

Back of the Napkin VC is a refreshingly simple framework for evaluating startups, business and technology. We rely on a few simple models - Business Equations, Unit Economics, and Flywheels - to evaluate high-level levers, identify critical metrics, estimate g…

Ramanujan Machine Redux | Persiflage

I had no intention to discuss the Ramanujan Machine again, but over the past few days there has been a flurry of (attempted) trollish comments on that post, so after taking a brief look at the latest version, I thought I would offer you my updates. (I promise …

a fun technique with iframes on the web – ciphrd

What would happen if a <iframe> tag on a page pointed to the same page ? In HTML, iframes are elements designed to display documents under an URL, as if we would load it as we normally do in our browsers. See it as a small window within a web document which ca…

Environment Aware Sessions in SSH – Steven Wade

In my first week on the job as a software developer, I deleted an entire table’s worth of data from a client’s database. Luckily, we had a backup from the night before and that table was low traffic. What happened was that I thought I was on the staging server…

Why Remote Friendly Won’t Do

Remote friendly is a term that has abruptly outlived its usefulness. In today's world where 70% of companies hiring on Hacker News are open to permanent remote positions as of January 2021, one could argue that most of the tech in

Feeds Considered Harmful

Technology is merely a tool. It can work for us or against us. If we use it with agency, we can leverage the world’s information to better our lives. If we use it indiscriminately, we find ourselves at the mercy of the Algorithm, passively consuming content. O…