21 March 2023

63 links · Tuesday

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How to Make a Great Conference Talk

Are you an aspiring conference speaker looking to improve your presentation skills? Check out my guide for tips and tricks to help you make great talks that engage your audience.

Navigating the Future of AI: Strategies for Survival

Lately, reading the news and following updates about advancements in AI, specifically in Generative AI and chatGPT, gave me mixed feelings - on one hand, we are on something big and impactful, but at the same time it feels like a potential threat to the future…

Contributor Stories: Fiyaz Bin Hasan

If you have ever taken any training modules or learned something new by going through the official documentation, the material you used was probably written or co-authored by one or many contributors. These individuals often are volunteers who offer their time…

Bean Machine Retrospective, part 9

I wanted to implement concise “pattern matching” in Python, a language which unlike C#, F#, Scala, and so on, does not have any pattern matching built in. Logically a pattern is just a …

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought

If you are reading this article, you are most likely using a web browser, and you have some expectations or beliefs about online privacy and security. For example, I do not know what you are reading on other tabs on your web browser, and you would like to keep…

zkSummit - Zero Knowledge Summit

Join us for the next upcoming Zero Knowledge Summit. This edition bring together best thinkers and builders in the space to learn about the latest in zero knowledge research, SNARKs, STARKs, cryptographic primitives, privacy and maths.

DataTable Class in C# - Code Maze

In this article, we are going to learn about DataTable class in C#. We'll see how we can use it, and what methods and properties it containts

Caching in .NET with MemoryCache

In this blog post, we will discuss how we can "cache" entries from the database. We will talk about why we would do this in the first place and how to achieve that. Also, we will talk about some implications and what "cache invalidation" is.

Release v7.4.0 · JasperFx/alba

New Features Route Auto-Complete in supported IDEs Visual Studio & Rider developers will see API routes when typing URL parameters. (@Hawxy in #138) OpenTelemetry Support Alba has OpenTelemetry su...

Paging Data in T-SQL - Simple Talk

Sometimes when working with very large sets of data, you may not want to return all of the data at once. I discussed using TOP in my previous article,

Testing Part 2: Unit Tests

Unit tests will most likely be the most in number in your codebase.

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The End of Front-End Development

Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advanc…

Platform APIs

Platform APIs are a set of building blocks for platform teams to deliver self-service infrastructure to engineers within their orgs. They are a way of delivering the required dependencies for applications without the need for direct interaction with cloud infr…

I Hate Typeforms

I hate <a href="https://www.typeform.com/">Typeforms</a> and I hate the fact that they have become so popular.

sqlelf and 20 years of Nix

If you want to skip ahead, please checkout the sqlelf repository and give me your feedback. 🎉 We are celebrating 20 years of Nix 🎉 Within that 20 years Nix has ushered in a new paradigm of how to build software reliably that is becoming more ubiquitous in th…

Why venture capital should be consensus-averse - Credistick

In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes wrote about investment through the metaphor of a newspaper contest to select the six best looking people from a group of photos, with the prize being awarded to the contestant whose choice most cl…

Using mmap to share data between processes

As part of my recent experiments with mmap1 I have learned how to share data between processes using a memory-mapped file. Here I’ll show how to do it between two independent Python processes, …

Thoughts on Editing Posts

Should content on a personal site be edited, or should it be a snapshot in time?