14 May 2023

23 links · Sunday

Ubuntu gesture volume control

I don’t like Windows much, but I loved Windows 11 sound volume control via three-finger touch pad gestures, so I ported that behaviour to Ubuntu 22.04. The script [TVC] listens to events from…

Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies

Please, let me monetize my hobbies. After all, what’s the point of doing something purely for fun when I could be making money off it? Please, let me turn my relaxing gaming sessions into hig…

Prompt Engineering is for Transactional Prompting

I've noticed a consistent point of confusion whenever prompt engineering is discussed and I believe the confusion stems from two distinct ways of using a language model: interactive prompting and transactional prompting. Prompt engineering is primarily about t…

Idea for a Watch Dogs and Predator like tangiable vision

Like others, I emjoyed playing the 1st Watch Dogs game, and it’s UI that could remotely hack or utilize it’s facial rec system. So, I started thinking about how such a thing could be made possible by using OSS projectors which already has facial rec tech and t…

Map of GitHub

This website shows a map of GitHub. Each dot is a project. Two dots within the same cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users frequently gave starts to both projects

A Well-Architected Monoliths

The story of the monolith application or architecture begins with the rise of the web in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During this time…

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Welcome to Developer Week 2023

It is an incredibly exciting time to be a developer. We couldn’t imagine a better time to be kicking off Developer Week here at Cloudflare

Azure SQL input binding for Azure Functions

This post is about Azure SQL input binding for Azure Functions - this feature is preview right now. The input binding helps us to read data from SQL Server in Azure Functions. To write to SQL Server we need to use the Output binding. Azure function now offers …