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...
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 gu...
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.
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 toget...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 detail...
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 yo...
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.
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...
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 ...
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...