2 July 2021

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Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene - ML@B Blog

In January 2021, OpenAI released the weights and code for their CLIP model, and since then various hackers, artists, researchers, and deep learning enthusiasts have figured out novel methods for combining CLIP with various generative models to create beautiful…

Release NVIM v0.5.0 · neovim/neovim

Nvim release build NVIM v0.5.0 Build type: RelWithDebInfo LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 Install Windows Extract nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win32.zip) Run nvim-qt.exe macOS Download nvim-macos.tar.gz Extract:...

Integrating Tailwind into an ASP.NET Core Project

This article will discuss about integrating Tailwind CSS into an ASP.NET Core Project. Tailwind CSS is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without any annoying opinionated s…

Getting To Know Logical Clocks By Implementing Them

Physical clocks can't capture causality. This blog post discusses two kinds of logical clocks (Lamport Clocks and Vector Clocks), how they are able to capture causality and achieve consensus on the ordering of events, and how to implement them.

Compressing JSON: gzip vs zstd

JSON is the de facto standard for exchanging data on the Internet. It is relatively simple text format inspired by JavaScript. I say “relatively simple” because you can read and understand the entire JSON specification in minutes. Though JSON is a concise form…

How not to Groupthink

In his acid parliamentary testimony recently, Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s former chief adviser, blamed a lot of different people and things for the UK’s failure to fight Covid-19 — inclu…

The Problem With Rockstar Culture In Tech

Some of the common problems that I've observed in the companies and cultures I've worked in, and heard from friends around.

Towards richer colors on the Web

Preface Introduction Colors on the Web CSS Color Color in Chromium Render pipeline Richer colors Some ideas from WebKit High precision colors in Skia Summary In Closing

Explaining blockchains to developers

What is a blockchain? Why are some people using it? Even as a developer, it took me a few years to understand what a blockchain really is,how it is working from inside out. I’ll share here what I believe is a comprehensive explanation of what is a blockchain f…

The Missing Email Service For Domains

Our base offer is standards-oriented email hosting with full support for SMTP, IMAP4, POP3 as well webmail. No proprietary protocols or clients, ever.

How to Build a Giant Carmaker

W. Edwards Deming was an American management thinker whose ideas were ignored by Americans until they were used by foreign automakers, namely Toyota, to pummel domestic automakers. Toyota Production System (TPS) and its imitator, Lean Manufacturing, are partly…

The Untold Story of SQLite - CoRecursive Podcast

On today's show, I'm talking to Richard Hipp about surviving becoming core infrastructure for the world. SQLite is everywhere. It's in your web browser, it's in your phone, it's probably in your car, and it's definitely in commercial planes. It's where your iM…

Products, Pricing and Predictability

I want to talk about an aspect of RavenDB that is usually ignored. Its pricing structure. The model we use for pricing RavenDB is pretty simple, we charge on...

Weekly Update 250

The COVID Situation Here; LinkedIn Scraped Data; IoT This Week; The Slovak Republic on HIBP; More AMA

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Code Maze Weekly #83 - Code Maze

Issue #83 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Conditional compilation for ignoring method calls with the ConditionalAttribute [andrewlock.net] Ever heard of the [Conditional] attribute? No? Check out this art…

Simple, solar-powered water desalination

A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve off-g…

Advancing safe deployment with AIOps—introducing Gandalf

The continuous monitoring of health metrics is a fundamental part of this process, and this is where AIOps plays a critical role. In the post that follows, we introduce how AI and machine learning are used to empower DevOps engineers, monitor the Azure deploym…

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Announcing TypeScript 4.4 Beta

Today we are excited to announce the beta release of TypeScript 4.4! To get started using the beta, you can get it through NuGet, or use npm with the following command: npm install typescript@beta You can also get editor support by Downloading for Visual Studi…

Web Locks API - Web APIs | MDN

The Web Locks API allows scripts running in one tab or worker to asynchronously acquire a lock, hold it while work is performed, then release it. While held, no other script executing in the same origin can acquire the same lock, which allows a web app running…

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Episode 383 - Something cool in Azure

Episode 248 - Updates from Ignite 2018A whole bunch of Azure updates were announced at Ignite so Cynthia, Cale and Sujit try to cover as m...Episode 316 - SAP on AzureMicrosoft Cloud Solution Architect, Marc Böhnke, gives us the low-down on the partnership bet…

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