Beautiful temples of Wat Arun in Bangkok, Thailand
Beautiful temples of Wat Arun in Bangkok, Thailand
Building the Linux kernel in under 10 seconds with Firebuild - Obsessed with reality
Russell published an interesting post about his first experience with Firebuild accelerating refpolicy's and the Linux kernel's build. It turned out a few small tweaks could accelerate the builds even more, crossing the 10 second barrier with Linux's build. …
The burden of complexity
Complexity is present in any project. Some have more, some have less, but it’s always there. The manner in which a team handles complexity can pave the way for a project’s success or lead towards its technical demise.
Why writers use platforms
Platforms offer a number of benefits over self-hosting your writing. One is the network effect. Us writers, the little parasites we are, latch onto a big whale platform and benefit from its marketing department.
Entity-Based Reinforcement Learning
Deep reinforcement learning is a powerful technique for creating effective decision-making systems, but its complexity has hindered widespread adoption. Despite the perceived cost of RL, a wide ran…
Why Poland matters
A review of God’s Playground: A History of Poland (Volumes I and II) by Norman Davies
Jeremy A Boyd | Sunsetting HN Notify
When I launched HNNotify a few years back, I had grand plans. Well, every time I launch an MVP, I have big plans. Kanban boards are FILLED with features and designs and, well, lots and lots of bugs. And like every responsible product developer, I test my produ…
Why I quit being a tech "influencer" | Blog | Jack Domleo - Frontend & UX Developer
Throughout 2020, I gained popularity on Twitter. I had a good run but it's time I accepted what I became and what I'm going to do about it.
An Over-Engineered Travel Blog
Kevin Hughes' blog
I Think I Found a Privacy Exploit in ChatGPT
Either ChatGPT is good at hallucinating, or I found an exploit in their API that can expose private information
3 Scalable Next.js Architecture Boilerplate
A collection of Next.js boilerplates for building scalable web applications.
Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting
"Prompt Engineering" emerged from the growth of language models to describe the process of applying prompting to effectively extract information from language models, typically for use in real-world applications.
My Thoughts on ChatGPT - Cal Newport
In recent months, I’ve received quite a few emails from readers expressing concerns about ChatGPT. I remained quiet on this topic, however, as I was ... Read more
Handling fraud orders in Shopify when the fraudsters won't quit
Shopify stores are experiencing a new form a fraud orders, incurring transaction massive fees for merchants, and the fraudsters wont quit.
Curiously Confused
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Emacs as a Shell
My current understanding of Emacs
LLM Programming Loops: Giving the Model an IDE
By giving LLMs the same resources as human programmers, they can use more sophisticated, iterative programming workflows, and write more reliable code.
Lessons From Billions of Breached Records
Security flaws, hackers and data breaches are the new normal. It’s not just those of us in the industry facing these foes every single day; it’s everyone. Whether you’re online or offline, you simply cannot exist today without your personal information being d…
Remote Development with JetBrains Rider
JetBrains provides access to Remote Development Beta. The tool works by locally running a thin client and connecting to the IDE backend which gives a fully functional user interface. It can be handled by JetBrains Rider or JetBrains Gateway. The workflow of th…
Looking into Corax’s posting lists: Part II
In a previous post (which went out a long time ago) I explained that we have the notion of a set of uint64 values that are used for document IDs. We build a ...
MS Build 2023: Must-See Sessions
A blog about dev: web and mobile, especially .Net, OSS and CI.
Upgrade Analysis with .NET Upgrade Assistant [5 of 18] Migrating from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core
In this video, Mike uses the .NET Upgrade Assistant's analyze command to understand what changes are needed to upgrade a solution before diving into the upgr...
How can I convert a WIC bitmap to a Windows Runtime SoftwareBitmap? part 4: Handing it over - The Old New Thing
Just take the whole thing.
Linguistics Gossip
Code Maze Weekly #169 - Code Maze
Issue #169 of the Code Maze weekly.
Different Ways to Split a String in C# - Code Maze
In this article, we will look at different ways to split a string in C#. We'll see how to use different Split method overloads for this.
Episode 120 - Inside Avalonia's Cross-Platform UI Toolkit and the Quest for Quality Documentation with Mike James
Mike James, the CEO of Avalonia, shares insights on its inception over a decade ago and its journey to becoming a community-driven project, boasting over a thousand contributors worldwide. James discusses the challenges of web development, and the team's focus…
Converting Strings to .NET Objects – IParsable and ISpanParsable
A new feature of C# 11 allows abstract static members with interfaces. This makes it possible to define class methods to be used as a contract with a generic class implementation, e.g. using + and …
Journey to Containers
The technology: what is a container? According to the Cloud Computing Dictionary a container is a standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another. I…
TLS 1.3—What is It and Why Use It?
This blog post covers TLS specifics, the benefits of TLS 1.3 and the newly added support for the encryption protocol in Fiddler Everywhere.
How to secure legacy ASP.NET MVC against Cross-Site (CSRF) Attacks - Simple Talk
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks are widespread, and even some BigTech companies suffer from them. Netflix suffered in 2006 with CSRF
An introduction to generative AI with Swami Sivasubramanian
The VP of database, analytics and machine learning services at AWS, Swami Sivasubramanian, walks me through the broad landscape of generative AI, what we’re doing at Amazon to make large language and foundation models more accessible, and how custom silicon ca…
An example of LLM prompting for programming
Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.
Google's decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice and free formats
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