A few weeks ago, I wrote about a new feature we added to the Jetpack plugin: a “Share to Mastodon” button. Nice, right? Mastodon is getting more and more popular, and it makes sense to …
I tried creating a custom ray/path tracing renderer. Featuring: maths, shaders, and cats!This project was written in C# and HLSL, and uses the Unity game eng...
Traditionally, the set of monadic reversing or reflecting primitives, Reverse-First (⊖), Transpose (⍉), and Reverse (⌽) apply to entire arrays and are defined as identity functions on scalar arguments. Dyalog v19.0 extends the definitions to provide equivalent…
What a Time to Be Alive
OpenAI Whisper is one of the best Speech-to-Text models currently available on the market. But what is the cost of hosting such a model?
I know Notion exists, but until now I didn't pay much attention to it. With my recent transition from social media and Pocket to good old RSS feeds, I've been looking for a way to save random internet articles to a single feed, which I could then put to my RSS…
We’ve been using an Amazon Echo Dot in our kitchen for several years, principally for timers and answering basic questions. Lately, it has not been responding as reliably. Also, it never worked well as a Bluetooth speaker for my iPhone because the phone would …
Late-stage capitalism is a phrase used by people who want to imply that capitalism is doomed to fail (usually soon). The phrase is growing in...
By Robert Alexander
Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of the 20th century, people were eagerly
Apr 1, 2023
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I’ve been involved in Rust and the Rust community for many years now. Much of my work has been related to creating infrastructure for building GUI toolkits in Rust. However, I have found my frustrations with the language growing, and pine for the stable, matur…
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In a shocking turn of events, OpenAI has decided to rebrand itself as Cyberdyne - a name that was made famous by the movie franchise Terminator. To ma...
A post-modern modal text editor.
In this blog post, we will explore the use of SIMD instructions to speed up LINQ queries. We will use the Vector type of performing SIMD operations on arrays of data. We will also use the BenchmarkDotNet library to measure the performance of our code. We will …
A gentle introduction to the Janet programming language.
Check out my courses: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick, and in...
In this article, we will look at a feature of C# called null-conditional operators and how they can save us from exceptions.
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