Money is backed by everything - jaysoncoomer.com
Money is backed by everything, and by nothing, and by whatever you want. It's the piece of string whose length is as long as you want it to be. That's a good thing.
Data Imperialism
Imperialism as in "computer science imperialism" or "economics imperialism". Data as in "code is data" or "data type". Data might have connotations of numbers or tables, but the economic methods that the economics imperialist applies to subjects that belong to…
Certified Human-Made
For weeks I’ve been disgusted by the recent AI developments, despite how I like how AI can improve much of our lives. Recently I cleared up my feelings about it.
Writing the most reliable driver ever (Part 1)
DISCLAIMER: This article is as an entertainment piece NOT expert advice. See full disclaimer at the bottom of this article. I’m an avid diver and Engineer and love tech. So in my spare time I’ve been slowly cracking away at building my own dive com…
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
Linux Desktop Environments and window managers: the missing APIs - Julien's notes
Linux Desktop Environments and Window Managers made a lot of progress in recent years. They sustain by far the comparison with other systems like MacOS or Microsoft Windows. However, we can expect a bit more, and there is an elephant in the room that no one se…
Data validation in Python: a look into Pandera and Great Expectations | endjin
Data validation is a vital step in any data-oriented workstream. This post investigates and compares two popular Python data validation packages - Pandera and Great Expectations
Reduced Distortion Eye-Ware | Lorenzo Venneri
Spherical Eye-ware Concept
Climate Tech Checklist
Cross posted from blog.terraformindustries.com. Over the last 18 months developing our clean natural gas technology, we’ve developed some heuristics to help us assess our progress and the gen…
Cedric Charly's Blog
Software engineering, the realm of bits, has long been organized around the idea that developing software is an expensive endeavor. Not only are software engineers costly, but code itself carries a certain weight. Once code is written, it must be maintained an…
C4 at scale: make it efficient, then make it ambient
Introduction C4 (Context, Containers, Components, and Code) is a powerful and flexible approach to visualizing software architectures. In a previous article I explained how I created a DSL to describe my C4 as data thanks to the CUE language. In this article, …
Private Comments, or Why I’m Down On Webmentions
The bulk of existing social media is about interacting in public, but there is a huge value in exploring what these systems look like if commenting is a private affair
ASP.NET Community Standup - Blazor and Data API Builder
Learn about Data API Builder and how it can be used in Blazor app development.Community Links: https://www.theurlist.com/blazor-community-standup-2023-04-11F...
Black Basta ransomware group extorts Capita with stolen customer data, Capita fumble response.
There’s an interesting piece in The Times today, where the CEO of Capita declares Capita’s response to the hack “will go down as a case…
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Announcing .NET 8 Preview 3 - .NET Blog
.NET 8 Preview 3 is now available, with changes to build paths, workloads, Microsoft.Extensions, and containers. It also includes performance improvements in the JIT, for Arm64, and dynamic PGO.
Rethinking Type I/II error rates
Introduce a curve that shows the dependency of the positive detection rate on the actual effect size
Check out new C# 12 preview features! - .NET Blog
The first set of C# 12 features are here in preview including primary constructors, using aliases, and lambda expression parameters.
.NET April 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.5, .NET 6.0.16 - .NET Blog
Check out April 2023 updates for .NET 7.0. and .NET 6.0
Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 3 - .NET Blog
.NET MAUI makes it's way to .NET 8 Preview 3 and is full of new quality improvements for developers across the entire framework. In addition, we are introducing NuGet packages even greater flexibility going forward.
Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4
The new wave of AI systems, ChatGPT and its more powerful successors, exhibit extraordinary capabilities across a broad swath of domains. In light of this, w...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 3 - .NET Blog
.NET 8 Preview 3 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update.
How can I convert a WIC bitmap to a Windows Runtime SoftwareBitmap? part 1: Via an encoded stream - The Old New Thing
We'll start with the hard way, but it gets easier.
Let's Learn .NET - Azure
Let's Learn .NET is a 2-hour event to learn the basics of cloud computing by building an ASP.NET Core web app and deploying it to Azure. Come to learn someth...
Homeowners Associations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses homeowners associations, the surprising power they have, and how to tell if a tree is “tree-shaped.” Connect with Last Week Tonight onl...
How we're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
“How is the SerenityOS team making such good progress on building their Ladybird browser, when we've heard for years that it’s impossible”? I've seen this question a few times on sites like Hacker News and Reddit, and I thought I’d offer my own personal take o…
Why my WireMock mocks aren't working?
How to troubleshoot WireMock.Net problems + four common problems
Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming With C# and F# – Recording Available | The .NET Tools Blog
Thanks to all who joined our free live webinar, Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming With C# and F#, with Software Architect at Calitime AG, Urs Enzler is now available on our YouTube channel –
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary) [2023 Remaster] {Full Album}
50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' celebrated with new box set available March 24. Out now: https://pinkfloyd.lnk.to/DarkSide50th*T...
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Twitter API
C# Tip: Access items from the end of the array using the ^ operator
Shorter code is often easier to read. Not always, but often. And the ^ operator can make your code easier to read and less error-prone
How to Round Down a Number to a Nearest Integer in C#
C#, .NET, round down a number to the nearest integer, Math.Round, Math.Truncate, Math.Floor, Convert.ToInt32, casting to int, modulo division
Normalize and compare URLs with C#
This post will show you how to simplify URLs to better compare them and to implement uniqueness checks across URLs with multiple parameters.
Trying out What ChatGPT Knows About XML Doc Comments
Back in 2003, I started a Visual Studio add-in called “GhostDoc” that used some simple heuristics to create basic XML doc comments as a starting point for writing the “real” documentation (remarks on …
11 API Security Best Practices to Secure Your Business
API security is the practice that involves techniques implemented to harden APIs, and patch underlying vulnerabilities to mitigate any form of threat.
Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming With C# and F# – Recording Available | The .NET Tools Blog
Thanks to all who joined our free live webinar, Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming With C# and F#, with Software Architect at Calitime AG, Urs Enzler is now available on our YouTube channel –
Tips for handling localized ranges in regular expressions | Red Hat Developer
Ranges and localization together can cause issues with regular expressions that are difficult to fully appreciate. Explore current and upcoming solutions.
Running .NET Console Apps in Azure Container Instances
Mark Heath's Development Blog
Six Labors : Announcing ImageSharp.Web 3.0.0
ImageSharp.Web 3 - A Helping Hand
Using Step Functions to Orchestrate a Series of Lambda Functions | no dogma blog
See how to use AWS Step Functions to control the flow of a series of Lambda functions. In this example, the Lambda functions execute quickly, return a result, and trigger the next step.
Triggering a .NET Lambda Function from an Amazon SQS Queue | no dogma blog
.NET Lambda functions can be triggered when messages arrive in an SQS queue. There are a few steps to set this up, read on to see how.
Anagrams kata as a one-liner
A futile exercise in code compaction.
We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
ChatGPT lies to people. This is a serious bug that has so far resisted all attempts at a fix. We need to prioritize helping people understand this, not debating the …
Binding Generator Preview Release
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Start your AI and .NET Adventure with #30DaysOfAzureAI - .NET Blog
April AI #30DaysOfAzureAI is a series of daily posts throughout April focused on Azure AI. See what is in store for .NET Developers
The Brillant Paula Bean
Heidi S and Michael Hanson's employer was building an enterprise shipping/warehousing system but didn't have enough in-house resources to do it. One of the contractors they brought in to help fill the gaps was Paula, an "experienced Java programmer with strong…
OpenBSD 7.3
OpenBSD 7.3