8 October 2021

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Regulating Resiliency in Supply Chains

COVID has exposed just how vulnerable to shocks the systems we depend on for physical goods are. Just about every good – from lumber to computer chips – has been subject to shortages, and each shor…

Running Julia on an Android Device

A few days ago I was bored. The only good cure I know of boredom is smashing things together to see if they can work together. This incidentally is also why I love Julia, composability is a stated primary goal. I’ve smashed julia packages together before, and …

Reading from the web offline and distraction-free

TL;DR: This article describes the wiring of a tool to turn a webpage into a self-sufficient epub (for reading offline). If you want to try the tool, you can grab a binary version from GitHub The Why To oversimplify my need, I will quote this from the Readabili…

Empowering data scientists with a feature store

PalFish is a Series-C online education company based in China. In Feb 2021, I joined PalFish to bootstrap the ML infrastructure team. At the time, PalFish applied real-time machine learning in many cases, including feeds personalization and courses recommendat…

Is the SEC forcing Crypto Devs into Illegality and Anonymity?

In the past, when the crypto space had been in a bubble, during my times on crypto Twitter (short: "CT"), one popularly debated question had always been that about "inflated expectation

Silicon Valley VC Firm Leaked 'Deal Flow' Data

A Silicon Valley venture capital firm that runs a matchmaker service linking investors with startups exposed 6GB of data, including deal flow information pertaining

Release v3.2.0 · Blazored/Toast

What's Changed (#121) Added possibility to define custom close icon - Thanks to @linkdotnet (#90) Update README.md - Thanks to @AskYous 🚀 Features (#137) Adds ability to clear all toasts or all ...

Carbon

Carbon is the easiest way to create and share beautiful images of your source code.

The road to OCaml 5.0 - Ecosystem - OCaml

With the convergence between the multicore and standard runtime across OCaml 4.10.0 to 4.13.0 [6], the development of OCaml multicore has reached a point where further integration into OCaml’s main branch requires fully committing to a switch to OCaml multicor…

What can I do about timer build-up when waiting for COM outbound calls to complete?

Some time ago, I talked about how COM synchronous calls can result in timer message build-up So what can you do about it? This is one of those situations where life puts you between a rock and a hard place, and you just have to create your own escape route.

20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any c…

When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up

On August 3, 2018, Facebook went down for 45 minutes. That's a little baby outage compared to the one this week, when, on October 4, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for more than five hours. Three years ago, the 45-minute Facebook break was enough …

Code Maze Weekly #96 - Code Maze

Issue #96 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Exploring C# 10: Save Space with File-Scoped Namespaces [daveabrock.com] As .NET 6 is around the corner (November) this is a great opportunity to explore some of …

Silicon Valley VC Firm Leaked 'Deal Flow' Data

A Silicon Valley venture capital firm that runs a matchmaker service linking investors with startups exposed 6GB of data, including deal flow information pertaining

KI ermöglicht Drohnen den Flug ins Unbekannte

Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a new approach to autonomously fly quadrotors through unknown, complex environments at high speeds using only on-board sensing and computation. The new approach could be useful in emergencies, on construct…

How to Train Large Deep Learning Models as a Startup

Training large deep learning models is expensive and slow. Yet, startups are all about iterating fast. In this post, we share the lessons we've learned over the past few years.

The Button Cheat Sheet

Do you need a button for your next project but you’re not sure about the right markup? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!

Bring VS Code themes to Visual Studio 2022!

We've added Personalization capabilities to help you convert and apply VS Code themes to Visual Studio, using a Theme Converter tool.

Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2021 Release

We are pleased to announce that the October 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code.

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How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha

.NET Foundation: My Take

It's been a long week. I mean a really long week. As many of you know, I'm a board member of the .NET Foundation. This hasn't been an easy week for the foundation.

A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms

One of the guest lecturers aboard the ship [1] (Donald Gibbs, of Pearl-Harbor conspiracy-theory infamy) gave a very interesting talk a few ...

Weekly Update 264

The LinkedIn Scrape; The Twitch Breach; Even More Breaches; Installing Windows 11; I Bricked My IoT House