Ups and Downs of A Side Project
Reflections from a 4-year side project journey.
Introducing Helix
This is what free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like. Mockups, economics, and analysis. at andrewchen
Stop the Scroll: How Muting Everyone on Social Media Can Put You Back in Control
Break your social media habit with this technique. Remove the constant stream of updates and notifications to take back control of your time and attention.
Rehearsing a sabbatical · Max Gorin
This fall, I went hiking in the Nepali Himalayas for the first time since the pandemic. A village called Namche Bazar is my favorite place to unwind from work, and usually I need at least a month off to get properly recharged. This time, even though I took a w…
How I spent two months doing nothing
I'm really struggling with being productive these days. As seen on my GitHub contributors activity, I last shipped code two months ago. And only just sitting here writing kind of bores me too. I've reflected on what makes me bored: Am I burned out? Am I just t…
Data Science and Software Engineering (I)
I still remember when I started working as an intern data scientist and I had to open my first pull request. I was very happy with my work, so I just committed all my changes together, opened a pull request, assigned it to my supervisor, and started waiting fo…
Boring work
Success is like an onion.
The Catch-22 of Democracy - Pravesh Koirala
There have been many things written and said about Democracy. I agree with some of those, disagree with the most. Unlike many people believe, I do not consider Democracy as the best system of governance. In my academically (or otherwise) limited opinion, it's …
ReDoS "vulnerabilities" and misaligned incentives
Dec 28, 2022 Tags: oss, rant, security
Sick Day Part 2
Or the miracle that is the love of a good woman, a loyal dog, and the comfiest sofa I've ever sat on for two days straight.
Rack Mounting Home Assistant Yellow
I designed and 3D printed a custom panel for rack mounting the new Home Assistant Yellow and a Raspberry Pi 4.
Steps Lead to More Steps - Can's blog
When facing big problems such as climate change, it can feel like that only steps that have the biggest potential impact are worth pursuing. There are many …
Human-Oriented Automatic Theorem Proving
This is the website for an automatic theorem proving project funded by the Astera Institute. It is based in Cambridge, but we are open to remote collaboration with others who may be interested. The focus will be on traditional programming methods, but we hope …
2022.12: It does matter!
Matter support is here! Beautiful new Tile card features, a full-blown local calendar, shiny new state colors, and use Shelly devices as Bluetooth proxies!
Proving universal machine executions without universal circuits
Srinath Setty, Microsoft Research
The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 | Matrix.org
Life mural Classic T-Shirt by mimoozai
This represents a few elements from my life: the building in which I lived when I was younger (in Lyon), the empire state building with bugs bunny which inspired me to take on drawing when I was a kid (on a trip to NYC), Alice and Bob (cryptographers) at t • M…
TriviaR/Game.cs at 67c3c289600cd04f9c3477fe5eec3f304ad7a497 · davidfowl/TriviaR
A multiplayer trivia game using SignalR and .NET 7 - TriviaR/Game.cs at 67c3c289600cd04f9c3477fe5eec3f304ad7a497 · davidfowl/TriviaR
After importing a TLB, how do I convert from one type of _com_ptr_t to another?
Digging into the source code.
How to Update the Value Stored in a Dictionary in C# - Code Maze
In this article, we are going to see how we can update the value stored in a dictionary in C#, and how to make it less error prone.
RISC-V Bytes: Timer Interrupts
Daniel Mangum's personal website
The Service and the Beast: Building a Windows Service that Does Not Fail to Restart
Windows Services play a key role in the Microsoft Windows operating system, and support the creation and management of long-running processes. When “Fast Startup” is enabled and the PC is started after a regular shutdown, though, services may fail to restart.…
GitHub - davidfowl/TriviaR: A multiplayer trivia game using SignalR and .NET 7
A multiplayer trivia game using SignalR and .NET 7 - GitHub - davidfowl/TriviaR: A multiplayer trivia game using SignalR and .NET 7
Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/RustIsInevitable
December 26, 2022
ML.NET 2.0 Release Contains New NLP APIs and AutoML Updates
Microsoft announced the release of ML.NET 2.0, the open-source machine learning framework for .NET. The release contains several updated natural language processing (NLP) APIs, including Tokenizers, Text Classification, and Sentence Similarity, as well as impr…
.NET MAUI Framework and .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Updated for .NET 7
On November 8th, 2022, Microsoft announced the general availability of their .NET multiplatform framework MAUI for the recently launched .NET 7 major release. MAUI is now supported on both .NET 6 and .NET 7, running on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Tizen. T…
20 Best Cryptography Algorithms Books of All Time
The 20 best cryptography algorithms books recommended by Madison Kanna and Nadim Kobeissi, such as Cryptography and Computer Algebra.
Accelerate your WinUI 3 app with the Windows Community Toolkit | .NET Conf 2022
Not sure how to get started with Windows App SDK and WinUI 3? Not to worry, we have you covered! We'll demystify your common questions and dive into code so ...
GitHub - DimiMikadze/fest: SaaS boilerplate built with Node.js & React.
SaaS boilerplate built with Node.js & React. Contribute to DimiMikadze/fest development by creating an account on GitHub.