24 January 2023

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MIT Reality Hack 2023 Blog Day 1

Day 0 and 1 of my time at MIT Reality Hack. That was insane, the energy amazing, the creative drive unreal, the problems challenging, the learning academic. I have not felt that for a very long time.

Stuck in the Past? Scaling up Academia

A re-occurring impression about academia is how certain processes are stuck in the past, never getting re-examined. For all the progressive views academia has, we academics tend to be unwilling to change or to adopt new processes, at least for a while. There a…

we are all savages

How we will be deemed unworthy of praise by future humanity

3D Printer Nozzle Camera

(please ignore the horrible layer lines, this is just a prototype)

What is a type system, really?

Background This is a question I've been wrestling with for a little bit. My first experience with a type system was with Java, and I didn't like it. It just felt like an annoying constraint on the kinds of programs I could write. I was coming from Perl, which …

K8s ASA: The Storage Interface

Like most API servers, a, if not the, primary function of the Kubernetes API Server is to ingest data, store it, then return it when requested. Today we are going to be focusing on how the API Server stores data. Table of Contents: The apiserver Module (👈 “I …

Keep Some of Your Old Hardware – Andrew McWatters

Whether you’re a professional or amateur software developer, consider keeping some of your old hardware around when you decide to upgrade. It’ll make you a better developer, because when you’re working with constraints you’ll think harder about performance.

High Variance Management

There is a math supplement to this post where I build some intuition on the different probability distributions involved. If you are interested, read that later.Why variance matters

Blazor United prototype

A quick look at some of the experiments we're considering for Blazor in .NET 8

Documents and tool windows unleashed

We’re continuing our video series with tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Visual Studio. This week is all about managing tool windows and documents. There are lots of options to customize how we layout the various windows,

Git Commands You Probably Do Not Need

Ah, git! Love it, hate it. Few things are as central to the modern software development workflow as source-control management (SCM) tools. Although there have been and still are plenty of alternatives to git in the world of SCMs, none other seem quite as preva…

Reactive programming in F#

Functional programming and reactive programming are two paradigms that, when combined, enable you to write highly responsive, composable, and predictable code. Functional programming focuses on the use of pure functions and immutability, while reactive program…

TheJam.dev 2023

TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on how to build modern web applications using Jamstack, serverless and more

Agilean

There are other agile methodologies than scrum.

MAG Z690 TOMAHAWK WIFI

Powered by Intel 12th Gen Core processors, the MSI MAG Z690 TOMAHAWK WIFI is hardened with performance essential specifications to outlast enemies. Tuned for better performance by Core boost, Memory Boost, Premium Thermal Solution, M.2 Shield Frozr,

Leopard tanks would 'make a mess' of Putin's army

"Scholz's Chancellery doesn't really want Ukraine to win. They don't want Ukraine to lose, but they don't want Russia to either win or lose either."German Ch...