Living Through the Revenge of Capital
The last year has been a tough time to be a public or private tech investor or tech company CEO. We have spent a lot of time discussing the quantitative elements that have contributed to a pretty d…
Text-to-Image: Diffusion, Text Conditioning, Guidance, Latent Space
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
Day 2: Less Variable Wattage = More Flow
Finding flow while coding is sometimes tricky to do – it’s even trickier when encountering ‘someone else’s code’. We’ve all had the experience of reading code an…
Most Advice is Wrong
I think that most advice online is bad. You shouldn't listen to anyone but yourself. Here is why...
ChatGPT corrects itself when you tell it off
thoughts
The Audacity of Piping Curl to Bash
A blog about free software and programming
Finding The Best Homemade Vegan Ice Cream
Since I hate sites that make you read a whole story to get the recipes, out of the five different ice creams, here were the two highest ranking ones. I’d recommend reading more about these recipes Silk Ice Cream 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/4 tsp xantham gum 2 t…
Don't design your database like a frontend developer
As you grow a product to adapt to new use cases and customer growth a data layer built like a frontend developer will constantly run into fragility issues.
2022 Advent of Code Day 1: Calorie Counting
Repo can be found here
Brandodon
At this point, any company working on a metaverse presence* should probably spin up their own Mastodon server and hire a community moderator to run it. The S...
Important Lessons from Adam Wathan's Refactoring UI
Refactoring UI is one of the best things I've read this year in terms of stuff learned, I feel like I've become a way better designer after reading every chapter, the thing I like about it is that it focuses a lot on the little things that when used together m…
SBF is Crypto Personified
Personal Blog
On the Web, the Best Outcome is Email
Like many out there, I've been thinking a lot lately about the Open Web. As many readers are no doubt aware, the chaos at Twitter lately has driven a lot of people off the platform and onto more fledgling alternatives. Mastodon in particular has seen huge spik…
Bean Machine Retrospective, part 1
As I mentioned in the previous episode, the entire Bean Machine team was dissolved; some team members were simply fired, others were absorbed into other teams, and some left the company. In this se…
Introducing C#11: Required properties
Introduction C# 11 improves the initialization of objects and struct. Marking one or more properties...
C++ template parlor tricks: Using a type before it is defined
You can talk about hypothetical things, hoping that a real thing shows up later.
Microsoft 365 banned in German schools over privacy concerns
Problems for Microsoft 365 due to GDPR
Code Maze Weekly #150 - Code Maze
Issue #150 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Top Picks How to Create and Publish a NuGet Package with dotnet CLI [dotnetthoughts.net] In this article by Anuraj Parameswaran you can learn how to create and p…
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HTML/CSS: How to (Maybe) Prevent the Text of a Time Display from Jiggling Around, Part 2
In my previous blog post, I described how to deal with text output of time codes (e.g., hours:minutes:seconds) in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) when using a font where not all digits take up …
.NET 7 - The StringSyntaxAttribute
With the release of .NET 7, a new attribute was introduced; the StringSyntaxAttribute . What does the StringSyntaxAttribute do? The Stri...
Add docker-compose project to run all apps by LuizFDS · Pull Request #41 · davidfowl/TodoApi
With docker-compose we now setup it as startup project and run it from Visual Studio. It will spin up both apps todoapi and todo-web-server plus jaeger and prometheus.
What was Microsoft's first Integrated Development Environment (IDE)? #Shorts
For #AskAnArchivist Day, we thought we'd ask our archivist Amy Stevenson about Microsoft's first IDE. Find all the docs on our latest IDEs right here: https...
On Thomas Achord
Thomas Achord is the headmaster of a private classical Christian school, the co-author of the 2021 book Who is My Neighbor? An Anthology in Natural Relations, and is co-host of the Ars Politica pod…
Solving wire:click not working - Jorge Colon Consulting
If wire:click not working there's several steps you should take. We're going to go through them and hopefully resolve your problem.
Solving a Murder Mystery | Paul Osman
A coworker asked me if I ever write about difficult bugs I’ve encountered. I hadn’t thought about doing that before, but I like the idea. The conversation made me think about a bug I ran into at Honeycomb that I want to document before I forget the details. So…
What is External Validation And When It Becomes Unhealthy
Learn more about external validation. Why we crave it. Why it can be a good. And how to heal from constantly needing external validation.
Robotic DAOs
Picture this future scenario. It’s a busy Monday morning, the streets are buzzing and the robo-taxi you called has barely found some space for a temporary stop. Wow it’s real: no driver, as your friend Mark told you. You jump in the back seat and shout your de…
Is Agile a welfare program for developers?
How do you make developers comfortable? You could implement Scrum. Just don't expect to get anything done anytime soon.
Mutual Recursion in Language
This is not a programming post.
Ripoff or bargain?
Imagine a horrible world where the only internet connection (laptop or phone) is from the inflight wifi beaming down from Southwest flights criss-crossing overhead – basically dialup. Then one day Google Fiber announces that 2Gbps fiber is coming to your neig…
Company, team, self.
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This company/team/self framework proved itself a hel…
Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
Posted by Jeffrey Vander Stoep For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulne...