Weekly Update 352
Renovation Updates; Azure API Management Improvements; Zacks Data Breach; Have I Been Pwned Domain Search Announcements
.NET MAUI Community Standup - .NET MAUI Build Recap
Let's review the latest community news for .NET MAUI, and recap Microsoft Build highlights from our first in-person developer conference since 2019.Chapters:...
A Quants Approach to Running
I’ve been training for a marathon and it is a personal habit to let data take over my life for each of my hobbies. I’ve built apps that track my badminton scores, golf struggles, and now I’ve gone all analytical on my running. This post is a summary of how I’v…
Migrating a Live Mastodon Instance With No Downtime – Brian de Heus
This is going to be a pretty technical blog post, that can hopefully help others who find themselves in a similar situation. The situation of having to migrate a live mastodon instance with practically no downtime.
How I use daily notes
An overview of how I use daily notes and how I extract knowledge from those.
Collections: Roman Roads
This week we’re taking a brief look at Roman roads because that was the topic which won out on the latest ACOUP Senate poll and on this blog we conform to the mos maiorum by following the Sen…
5 Things I Learned Shooting Formula 1 on Film
An amateur shutterbug’s takeaways from the Miami Grand Prix.
Making the Resend cube from scratch using Three.js
The final result (code at the end of this post)
NDC Security 2024 | Security Conference for Software Developers
NDC Security 2024 is a 4-Day Event for Software Developers with a focus on Security. 8-11 January 2024 - Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel.
Swedish Researchers Rise Up Against Current Ethical Review Practices
Every country has its own approach to ethical vetting of research. While many countries have no real prescriptions on that, Sweden decided to do it …
What I've learned about data visualization
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.”
Why blogging never worked for me
Why blogging never worked for me
Single Ownership and Memory Safety without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Garbage Collection
this one simple trick language designers don't want you to know
Using ChatGPT for Task Classification
One of the biggest challenges we face at Spryngtime in AI-powered customer support is the wide range of intents behind customer support requests. From "Where's my order?" to "Does your product do X?", the needs of our users can vary tremendously, and the manne…
The Killer Use Case for LLMs Is Summarization
The killer use case for large language models (LLMs) is clearly summarization. At least today, in my limited experience, LLMs are incapable of generating unique insights. While LLMs are good at writing creatively regurgitated text based on certain inputs or wr…
Growth Versus Scale
Growth is more. Growth is when we obtain higher levels than we previously obtained. Sales higher than last year? Profits great than last quarter? Selling more than last season? You are experiencing growth
Cities of Software
Photo by Adrian Schwarz on Unsplash Cities are an interesting way to think about Software. Cities have foundations, like infrastructure for cars, electricity. Housing for people to live and work. Stores to sell and buy goods. Also, Cities are often referred to…
GitHub Quick Reviews
Powered by Restream https://restream.io
Binary Classification Using a scikit Neural Network -- Visual Studio Magazine
Machine learning with neural networks is sometimes said to be part art and part science. Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research teaches both with a full-code, step-by-step tutorial.
Integer compression: Porting simdcomp to C#
In the code of the simdcomp library there is a 25KLOC file that does evil things to SIMD registers to get bit packing to work. When I looked at the code the ...
Configure Visual Studio policies using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) - Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio global policies are now included in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) settings catalog! It’s easier for administrators to configure their organization’s devices now that the Visual Studio software policies are readily accessible in the Devi…
Paging With LINQ Just Got Easier, But No EF Support... #shorts
🚀 Support me on Patreon to access the source code: https://www.patreon.com/milanjovanovicJoin my weekly .NET newsletter:https://www.milanjovanovic.techRead ...
"Clean Architecture" and indirection. No thanks.
Entity Framework Core on the Query Side of CQRS... Or Something Else? Well, a video was posted on this topic, and a member of my channel asked me my thoughts...
Running Large Language Models locally – Your own ChatGPT-like AI in C#
For the past few months, a lot of news in tech as well as mainstream media has been around ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) product by the folks at OpenAI.ChatGPT is a Large Language Model (LLM) that is fine-tuned for conversation. While undervaluing t…
The case of the invalid handle despite being managed by an RAII type - The Old New Thing
The handle remains valid for the object's lifetime, but what is the object's lifetime?
How to Use Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core WebAPI
Rate limiting is the concept of restricting access to an API based on the number of requests. Rate limiting can serve three purposes.1. Improves security2. S...
Microsoft Fixed The "Time" Issue AGAIN in .NET 8
Check out my courses: https://dometrain.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick, and in t...
How to Add a Global Route Prefix in ASP.NET Core - Code Maze
In this article, we'll learn how to add a Global Route Prefix for Improved Routing Efficiency. We will see how middleware can help us do that.
What to Know When Porting a WPF to .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid
WPF apps gain users as cross-platform, but what’s best—.NET MAUI or Blazor Hybrid? Here are the steps involved if the results show Blazor Hybrid.
Material Web in 2023
What's new in Material Design and how does it affect component styling in your favorite framework or library?
How to Implement a Soft Delete Strategy with Entity Framework Core | The .NET Tools Blog
Learn to use a Soft Delete strategy using Entity Framework Core and the latest versions of .NET.
HotChocolate–GraphQL Caching
Caching in GraphQL can be quite challenging. Due to the flexible and dynamic nature of GraphQL queries, caching can become very complex, esp...
.NET Rocks! Building Apps using OpenAI with Mark Miller
How can OpenAI help you program faster? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller about his experiments with OpenAI and CodeRush. Mark talks about the power of building agents to analyze code to write comments and tests - in parallel so that multiple agents can run…