Ever since I got involved with open-source Python projects, Tox has been vital for testing packages across Python versions (and other factors). However, lately, I’ve been increasingly using Nox for my projects instead. Since I’ve been asked why repeatedly, I’…
One-hundred years ago a logician pointed out that naming variables is hard. Programmers can (and must) fix this problem
Recent conversations with the cofounders of QuillBot have changed my ideas about how to make products and manage people in a big way. A great way to advance is to be open to new concepts. At the sa…
Software developer and researcher
Learning a language is hard. But I’m convinced that large language models like GPT could make it a lot easier. I spent the last few days trying to figure out how. The result is Check My Writing. It’s a decent starting point, but I want to do more. After writin…
The first indication I had that anything was wrong at home was my solar panels’s cloud service casually emailing me to say they hadn’t generated any electricity that day. We were on hol…
By Planning Engineer (Russell Schussler) Influential academics as a body are encouraging an energy transition to renewables, discussing remote hopes and ignoring huge obstacles and greater costs, w…
A blog post by Patrick Brosset: (Almost) everything about storing data on the web
Part of “Letters from the Lab”, a series of informal essays on my research written for patrons. Originally published November 2022; made publicly available January 2023. You can also listen to this essay (21 minutes).
EA made a sad attempt to prevent me from reading their files. I’ll explain how I went about breaking their encryption.
This week my team reached an important milestone in our biggest project — the deployment of a new look for English Wikipedia. This was the most significant change to the desktop site in over a decade.
An exploration of real-time reactive web apps using Clojure, Datomic, and websockets
Over the years and at a handful of different companies, I’ve come to recognize what I call “organizational pathologies”. These are ways in which organizations, in theory designed to work toward a common goal, instead internally fray into myriad directions and …
fhur's blog
The endless barrage of goal setting frameworks, process improvements, and life optimizations are increasingly making people miserable
How 1Password protects your sensitive data, and why an attack on 1Password would pose no threat to information stored in your vaults.
This article describes Conway's Game of Life. It also demonstrates an implementation of the game in CLIPS.
Surprising things I find myself missing from before the pandemic.
This is the second breach to hit Mailchimp in six months. It also appears to be almost identical to a previous incident.
Maintaining our security commitment to our customers
McDonald's uses Event-Driven Architecture! Here's a breakdown of all the components and how they all work together and why.
Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3 is out and ready to install! This release continues to bring new productivity improvements for all developers and enhances many of the capabilities that shipped in 17.5 Preview 2. Several of these changes in this preview came …
When you think about C#, game development might not be the first thing that comes to your mind, but C# is used all over the game development industry. In thi...
Announcing the official release of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.1, with better, faster MVVM source generators, .NET 7 support, and more!
The fundamental technique has been studied for decades, thus creating a huge amount of information and alternate variations that make it hard to tell what is key vs. non-essential information.
By David Buchanan, 16th of January 2023
This class aims to bring together students and experts in academia and industry to explore Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP).
Engaging and inclusive digital experience across all platforms: Progress Developer Tools R1 2023 improves design, accessibility, customization and support.
The samples from these chapters are available at:
I already covered the P² quantile estimator and its possible implementation improvements in several blog posts. This sequential estimator uses (O(1)) mem...
Join the ML.NET team to talk about the most recent ML.NET releases and latest happenings in the ML space. Community Links: https://aka.ms/mlnet-standup-links...
Learn How to Create a 'Hello World' Application with Razor Pages and .NET Core: A Step-by-Step Guide
Maximizing Productivity with SharePoint Rules: A Comprehensive Guide to Automating SharePoint List and Library Actions
You're just attacking yourself.
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On today's livestream, Layla is joined by James Eastham (https://www.youtube.com/@serverlessjames) to deploy a .NET serverless function to AWS Lambda using S...
Why Hiring a SharePoint Consultant is Essential for Your SharePoint Project Success
Building Minimal API Endpoints in ASP.NET Core (.NET 7)
Building Minimal API Endpoints in ASP.NET Core (.NET 7)
Visual Studio Debugging Mastery: 5 Techniques for .NET Developers with Step-by-Step Examples
On today's livestream, Layla is joined by James Eastham (https://www.youtube.com/@serverlessjames) to deploy a .NET serverless function to AWS Lambda using S...
What Is the Mediator Design Pattern and When to Use It in C#?
Another new C# 12 feature might drop soon and makes its debut with the next iteration: Primary Constructors. The blog post will talk about what a Primary constructor is, why we already have it, and what the proposal tries to change. Exciting times are ahead of…
Kubernetes is comprised of a variety of components, yet most end-user interaction with the system flows through the API Server. It is the entrypoint to many of the features that the project has built up over its lifetime, and can be extended to support arbitra…
If you need to run async code in response to use input, .NET 7 has your back with its new bind modifiers.
Once data is in a table it needs to be maintained. New records will need to be added, and existing records will need to be updated, and/or deleted. To keep data maintained, the insert, update or delete actions may need to be performed. This article will show h…
Building a multiple-file upload HTML element for use in ASP.NET Core apps
Learn how containers and recent .NET features make systemd easy to run a service under Linux in this demonstration.
Working with secure keys in .NET has always been a delicate balance of convenience and safety. It’s easy to add a production database connection string to your application’s configuration for quick te
At one of my customers, we have been using NHibernate for a really long time. And although I think that with the latest Entity Framework Cor...
AZ-204: Implement Azure Functions
Chiseled Ubuntu Containers are new and exciting. You'll see how easy it is to switch to using them with .NET and what the benefits are. We'll show using them...
By default, integral values (such as int, uint, and long) do not throw an exception when they overflow. Instead, they "wrap" -- and thi...
Priority Hints are used to indicate to the browser the relative priority of a resource. I take a deep dive into how you can improve your Largest Contentful Paint by using fetchpriority.
Intersects technology / systems / probability.
Some thoughts on the Threema analysis carried out by a student at ETH Zürich.
The personal site of Allen Lee
I think it was in 2017 when I first stumbled upon It was an intriguing mixture of an encyclopedia and a new agile framework. Having done SCRUM for more than a decade, I was searching for something …
This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stag…
Here, I provide an in-depth analysis of GPUs for deep learning/machine learning and explain what is the best GPU for your use-case and budget.
libSQL “server mode” (sqld) enables access to SQLite-based databases using Postgres and HTTP network protocols.
Set up a Vite.js app that depending on the route, it either serves static content or fallbacks to server-side rendering.
The Metapict Blog
I've built safecyclingmap.com, an open-source proof of concept map that renders cycleways and streets down to the individual lanes, to assist cyclists picking safe routes in cities with little dedicated cycling infrastructure.
Automated testing of software is great. Unfortunately, what's commonly considered best practice for how to integrate testing into the develo...
Array.reduce() is a left fold. It's left associative. Array.reduceRight() isn't right fold,. It's not right associative.
Truthfully, the reason is straightforward. I tried to Push my project on GitHub through Sourcetree but constantly got an error 403. And when I tried to
Feature flags are a great tool for helping software development; they provide controlled feature rollouts, facilitate A/B testing, and help decouple deployment from release. So when it comes to building our software, why do we treat the CI pipeline without the…
As organizations continue to adopt infrastructure as code (IaC) practices and tools like Terraform, it becomes increasingly important to maintain a consistent and predictable state of the infrastructure. However, managing Terraform at scale can present several…
An extensive, step-by-step case study about how to work together as a team to develop and implement a Product Strategy.
With advancements in machine learning, screenshots are quickly becoming a universal data format. It's now (relatively) easy to extract meaning (image-to-text), layout information (object recognition), text (optical character recognition, OCR), and other metad…
We like stimuli, for an uneventful life is not worth living. However, when is it too much?
Do you remember the avocado toast guy? I read Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus recently (you should read it, it’s great), and I learned that someone1 has come up with a name for this sort of modern reinterpretation of “let them eat cake”: cruel optimism. Cruel optim…