5 March 2023

33 links · Sunday

ChatGPT, and the future of search and the web ecosystem

“retroanime style, two monsters fighting like their dancing. colorful” Playgroundai.com Why does ChatGPT fascinate people so much? Why are people so excited?These are the questions that I have been trying to answer the last two months. Studying and working on …

SSH PKI on top of Web PKI

Reading Future Internet PKI schemes need to be bootstrapped through web PKI I was reminded by all the problems I’ve had with SSH (Secure SHell) PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). SSH host verification is trust-on-first-use (TOFU). So SSH is protected from man-in…

Why Open Source ERP Systems are the Better Choice for Your Business

As businesses grow, they require more complex systems to manage their operations. One such system that has become ubiquitous in recent years is the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. An ERP system is a software suite that integrates and manages all asp…

Use secret scopes in Databricks to protect your sensitive credentials

Disclaimer: the following steps apply primarily to Windows users. You can follow the instructions as a guideline for other OS like Linux, Mac etc. Secrets In Databricks, secrets are used to guard sensitive credentials against unauthorized access. Thi...

The ultimate guide to becoming an entrepreneur

You don’t need qualifications, money, a planet-sized-brain or even a particularly good idea. All an entrepreneur ever does is create something that consistently makes money.

Multi-tasking is for robots. And humans. – Unstructed.tech

tl;dr I believe that the best way to achieve as much as possible is to multi-task. But it has to be done properly. And the proper way, from my POV, is having multiple tasks in your backlog and keeping notes on where you are, what is left and what is the curren…

Thoughts about the ethics of Large Language Models

Two weeks after ChatGPT came out and I had my "lol this is fun" time, I decided to use it as fully and honestly as I could for the entire week, as a tool lik...

Build vs Buy: age old dilemma

The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? I’ve asked myself

diziet | Never use git submodules

git submodules are always the wrong solution. Yes, even the to the problem they were specifically invented to solve.

Is a square a rectangle? Liskov substitution principle in action

I will put that simple question in the room: "Is a square a rectangle?" And you might thank: "Well dah, of course!" But wait for a second and let's check it together. We will use the L in SOLID: The Liskov Substitution principle to check if this relationship m…

The World's Smallest Hash Table

This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a usefu…