1 May 2023

65 links · Monday

How I made Tracy 30× faster

Let's take a deep dive into how to make software go brrr.

Ranking Anything with GPT4

I’ve been fascinated by this paper: Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agent and have been trying out the ideas with success in a few personal projects. They essentially found that GPT4 is excellent at ranking things. …

Think Excel Can’t Handle PDEs? Think Again

Did you know you can solve 2D PDEs in Excel without resorting to macros? In this post, we’ll look at how to solve Laplace’s Equation, $latex abla^2 f = 0$, in two dimensions using not…

The right to encrypt

It can be hard to find your bearings in the discussion about online communication and end-to-end encryption. The current rhetorical focus on crime is a red herring, given that the police already has plenty of powers to track down and spy on criminals. What is …

Be a “Big-Picture Developer”

Be a What? A Big-Picture Developer is a dev who understands the vision of the product they are building. They know the context of the feature they are working on and how it fits into the product as…

Code Your Future

🔥 Give Away, Only Today 1st of May 2023, International Worker's Day 🔥

Desktop setup

An exhaustive (and exhausting) description of my desktop Linux setup.

The bar has been raised

Malik's blog on programming, design and product development.

Open Dashboard - Pankaj Tanwar

Pankaj Tanwar : A self-taught developer, writer & creator who loves to read, write and learn about tech.

Shaping LLM Responses · Way Enough

It’s necessary to pay attention to the shape of a language model’s response when incorporating it as a component in a software application. You can’t programmatically tap into the power of a language model if you can’t reliably parse its response. In the past,…

Counters and Stones

HTML&CSS-only gomoku game? Binary logic in CSS via counters? So many combinators, Edge stops to understand what is even going on? All of this and a bunch of other weird CSS stuff in the experiment that I started back in 2013.

The Future of DevOps: Emerging Trends and Technologies

In recent years, DevOps has emerged as a key practice for modern software development, helping organizations to achieve faster delivery of high-quality applications. However, as the technology landscape continues to evolve, DevOps itself is undergoing signific…

Radical Incrementalism

Some companies enter the market with a mission of challenging existing products with sustainable replacements. Their strategy is radical from the start. Others, typically larger established firms, gain momentum in sustainability innovation by building upon inc…

.NET MAUI Logo Redesign

.NET MAUI Branding ?!?!? Last weekend our team at H3Y decided to join a virtual design jam. We were brainstorming ideas for a brand or product redesign. We wanted to work on a project in the tech spac

How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese

Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It's got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss chees...

The Most Confusing C# 12 Feature Yet

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How To Write Parameterized Tests With xUnit #shorts

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356: Sunsetting software, libraries, & APIs

When is the right time to sunset software from the app store? How about a library up on NuGet? What is the right way to do it for your customers and folks using your software? We discuss in this weeks podcast.

Application security context models

This article looks at a new concept for creating application security context models for modern solutions using best practice security. By using security context models in projects, a qualitative a…

Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext.

“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.” – Charlie Munger, American billionaire investor.

SlotView.Maui 🎰 spin me right 'round

I’m currently working on a side project where i need a custom view that can animate multiple images like a slot machine reel. The project is based on .NET MAUI and i couldn’t find any existing control