The Atom of Intelligence
A short story of how intelligence evolved from the very first single celled organisms and how common patterns reappear on various scales. A story in search of an atom of intelligence.
How I use social media mindfully
browser extensions are your friend
Welcome to Peter's DevLog - Wrapping C libraries in Nim
As we discovered in my last article, Nim will by default generate C code and then call on a C compiler to actually produce a binary. This might seem like an odd choice, especially in the age of LLVM. However it’s actually not uncommon for languages to compile …
Build things that surprise you
From an early age, I have been captivated by surprises. The thrill of a well-crafted plot twist in a novel or an unforeseen turn in a game made me feel invigorated. As I matured, I realized that "Building Things That Surprise You" became the core principle gui…
UserModeScheduling in Windows
User mode schuduling in Windows is such a hot topic that there is about 3 total post about it on the internet. The stakes are high! First things first - I already described its mode of operation at DConf 2018. So here I’ll just show some working code from impl…
The 10X vs. 0.1X Mindset: Balancing Growth and Sustainability for Success
Discover the 10X and 0.1X mindsets and their potential drawbacks and benefits. Learn how to balance growth with sustainability, set achievable goals, and embrace mindful living for long-term success and happiness.
Notes about Technical Debt
Sharing life and geek notes from Philadelphia.
Forex Trading for Fun and Luckily Profit
In college, my first programming side project involved writing foreign exchange (forex) trading programs. This is an introduction to forex trading and the story of my brief stint as an amateur currency trader.
Self-Modifying Prompts
In some sense, LLMs have long-term and short-term memory. Long-term memory is the model itself and short-term memory is the current input. When using chat.openai.com, the model only remembers the last 4K tokens. To bypass this limitation, I prompted ChatGPT to…
Delete Your Dev Environment Regularly
I have recently had the opportunity to muse about process and how we maintain a system. One of the things in particular that I have been thinking about the most is onboarding new people into your project.
Recapping a wild few months for llms
Speculations about Transformers and Compositionality
Warning: Speculative Content. Expect that parts of it will be proven wrong.
Technology and Moral Responsibility - Christopher Butler
As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago. Yesterday, I re-read a series of posts I wrote
Make It Memory Safe: Adapting curl to use Rustls
As I mentioned in my post about attending Real World Crypto 2023 and the Open Source Cryptography Workshop, I’ve given a talk discussing Rustls-FFI and the work to allow curl and libcurl to use the Rust-based, memory-safe Rustls TLS library in a talk called Ma…
Data Driven Detection Engineering
In which I argue for stronger software engineering skills in cybersecurity, and a focus on data engineering. My initial foray in the world of detection & response occurred in the mid-2000s, when the field of cybersecurity was still nascent and white hats were …
.NET Migration Overview [1 of 18] Migrating from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core
In this video, Mike introduces the ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core migration series that will walk through the process of migrating an ASP.NET .NET Framework app to ...
Preventing iOS Textbox Auto Zooming and ViewPort Sizing
If you've build mobile Web applications that need to run on iOS Safari and on an iPhone you might have run into the problem of input fields 'auto-zooming' the display when the input field and popup keyboard get focus. The view zooms and doesn't return back to …
Microsoft Intros Native AOT for ASP.NET Core -- Visual Studio Magazine
In the new .NET 8 Preview 3, Microsoft introduced initial support for native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation in the framework's web-dev component, ASP.NET Core.
Require user consent before sending any telemetry · Issue #176269 · microsoft/vscode
VSCode doesn't ask for consent from the user when sending telemetry, it's an opt out. Even if you disable telemetry after installing VSCode, some data will already have leaked out, which is inconve...
Running non-root .NET containers with Kubernetes - .NET Blog
Learn how to run .NET containers in Kubernetes as a non-root user.
Multinomial Naive Bayes Classification Using the scikit Library -- Visual Studio Magazine
A full-code demo from Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to predict the type of a college course by analyzing grade counts for each type of course.
mjg59 | Booting modern Intel CPUs
CPUs can't do anything without being told what to do, which leaves the obvious problem of how do you tell a CPU to do something in the first place. On many CPUs this is handled in the form of a reset vector - an address the CPU is hardcoded to start reading in…
Looking into Corax’s posting lists: Part III
We looked into the internal of Corax’s posting list and in the last post I mentioned that we have a problem with the Baseline of the page. We are by n...
Detecting Dark and Light themes in a WPF application - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to detect if a WPF application should use the light or dark theme.
Why Upgrade to .NET? [2 of 18] Migrating from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core
In this video, .NET program manager Olia Gavrysh explains why you might want to upgrade to .NET 7. What benefits does .NET provide? When does it make sense t...
How can I find the invalid class when C++/WinRT tells me that the class may not be final? - The Old New Thing
It's in the error details.
Getting Started With MediatR and Vertical Slices in .NET
Check out my courses: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello, everybody, I'm Nick, and ...
[patch 00/37] cpu/hotplug, x86: Reworked parallel CPU bringup
Topics for a Senior Developer to Become a .NET Solution Architect
Topics that a senior developer can study to become a .NET solution architect.
Resource-Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core - Code Maze
In this article, we discuss use cases and methods to achieve resource-based authorization of requests in ASP.NET Core.
A Journey through Color Space with FFmpeg
For those who want to understand color spaces, transform videos from one color space to another, or read how I almost went crazy working…
.NET MAUI 8 Preview 3: UI improvements, Memory Management, and NuGet Versioning
Microsoft has recently released the third preview of the .NET MAUI framework in .NET 8. This latest release includes UI improvements, focusing on memory management also. In addition, Preview 3 also brings support for NuGet package versions of the app. This mea…
354: .NET Native AOT Apps Fit on a Floppy Disk!
With Microsoft Build and .NET 8 right around the corner, the team is hard at work optimizing the runtime to fit full Native AOT apps down under 1.44MB! That is right, it fits fully on a floppy disk! We discuss all things AOT and what you need to know.
Covariance and Contravariance in C#
Let's talk about Contravariance and Covariance in C# using .NET Framework examples! Contravariance and covariance are essential concepts in C# when dealing with generics, enabling us to have more flexibility when assigning generic types. So let's have examples…
What do Solution Architects do?
What solution architects do, what skills they need, and how they work with other professionals to create successful solutions.
Privacy Awareness Week 2023 (1 – 7 May)
Privacy Awareness Week is held annually in May and is a great reminder about the importance of protecting and respecting personal information.
Provision Azure IoT Hub devices using DPS and X.509 certificates in ASP.NET Core
This article shows how to provision Azure IoT hub devices using Azure IoT hub device provisioning services (DPS) and ASP.NET Core. The devices are setup using chained certificates created using .NE…
Mastering Azure AI: #30DaysOfAzureAI Week Two Recap
Looking Back: Week 2 Recap Week two is complete and thank you for joining us on this journey. We hope you've enjoyed the second week of #30DaysOfAzureAI and have learned a lot about building intelligent apps. Here's a recap of week two. Here are the high…
New Azure Extensions in VSCode.dev!
We are excited to announce the release of 3 Azure Extensions to vscode.dev! These extensions are Azure Static Web Apps, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Resource Groups. vscode.dev is a development tool that is a lightweight version of VSCode that runs fully …
Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, is Now Generally Available | Amazon Web Services
Today, Amazon CodeWhisperer, a real-time AI coding companion, is generally available and also includes a CodeWhisperer Individual tier that’s free to use for all developers. Originally launched in preview last year, CodeWhisperer keeps developers in the zone a…
Testing a periodic worker
I came across somebody that was asking about how to test their code. They had a function that would do certain work at short intervals and t...
(The Futility of) Keeping Secrets from Yourself
Many interesting problems in software design boil down to “I need my client application to know a secret, but I don’t want the user of that application (or malware) to be able to learn …
GitHub - DolphyWind/Electra-Lang: Electra is an esolang where you code like an electrician.
Electra is an esolang where you code like an electrician. - GitHub - DolphyWind/Electra-Lang: Electra is an esolang where you code like an electrician.
Water Cooler GPT
Michael Outlaw is a father, husband, and software developer based out of Atlanta, GA. A fan of gadgets and all things technology, when he isn't found behind the clickety clack of his favorite mechanical keyboard he's usually found on a bicycle or tennis court.…