22 June 2023

43 links · Thursday

Dart Sass and Hugo Themes

Quick notes on variables, dart-sass and hugo Background Recently I decided that it was annoying for me as a user to not know which links on my site were internal and which led off to an external site. Figure 1: The desired end-result, blue for internal links, …

Critter Stack Multi-Tenancy

To go along with the Wolverine 1.0 release, I should probably be blogging some introductory, getting started type content. To hell with that though, let’s jump right into the deep end of the …

Cultural Hints - Mark Loves Tech

BACK TO TOP Too Long; Didn’t Read Try Three Things Dates and Goals Focus on your unique value first before helping others too much AAA – Anticipate, Analyze, Answer DDD – Dates, Dates, Dates Brilliant and Well Intentioned Unclear Commitments are the Root of a …

The principle of minimalism

Learn about the principle of minimalism in engineering, where your default should be the lowest-common denominator of what you actually need. Everything you need to know about securing the software supply chain.

Based-30b

https://huggingface.co/ehartford/based-30b So, as I was working on Wizard-Vicuna-30b-Uncensored and WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-7b, I came to the realization that these models, despite being trained with no refusals, were still refusing. How could thi...

You don't take enough risks to be lucky

I quit my job a month ago, which will probably end up among the best turning points of my career. To be clear, there was nothing wrong with that job, the alternative is just that much better. My social and professional networks have grown dramatically. I have …

Developer Brethren, its Time to Embrace Boring!

So this morning I was listening to one of the Linux related podcasts, Coder Radio and the hosts read feedback from a listener who claimed that he was "bored" with PHP and ready to try something else. Now to be fair, in this particular case, the writ…

6 Reasons You Don't Need an SRE Team

The last several years have seen a huge upsurge in the popularity of the DevOps/SRE/Production Engineering model, with companies large and small adopting some of the practices and mindsets. One of the principal lessons many of these organisations (hopefully) l…

Why use Azure OpenAI when you have OpenAI?

In addition to the ChatGPT application, OpenAI has also released APIs that allow you to integrate it in your products. Confusingly, Microsoft has also released something called Azure OpenAI Service, which appears to be doing the same.

Azure Logic Apps Community Day 2023

On June 22, 2023 (Pacific Time) the Logic Apps Product Group will host a full day of learning where you will be the start! The Logic Apps Aviators is a free ...

What's next for Entity Framework Core Power Tools?

In this episode of Open at Microsoft, we see a quick demo, and the maintainer discusses plans for a command line version of the tool and looks for your feedb...

Apizr v5.0, resilient api client manager - What's new

The goal of Apizr v5.0 is still the same: getting all the things ready to use for web API client requests, with the more resiliency we can, but without the boilerplate. It's still based on Refit, so what we can do with Refit could still be done with Apizr too.…

Code Review & Refactoring to a better design

It's code review and design time. Recently I recorded a video providing my thoughts on some code attempting to illustrate persistence ignorant for queries. I...

Alexandre Nédélec - Vue.js CI/CD: Continuous Integration

When working on a project, you typically focus on a specific feature at a time, making changes on a dedicated branch for that feature. When it's time for you to integrate these modifications into the project's code base, the code base has likely evolved since …

Dev Home Preview 0.2 Release

Welcome to our second release of Dev Home! This release updates Dev Home Preview to version 0.2 and the Dev Home GitHub Extension to version 0.2 as well. You can install Dev Home from