The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
A revolution against monopolies – castignoli.eth After reading an essay by Étienne de La Boétie called Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, I got a strong sense of living in a world in which we are slaves of the decisions that the big corps impose to us.
Exploring garbage collection in V8 with WebGL Discovering how V8's garbage collection works, then looking into its interactions with WebGL.
Can we lose technology? <p>A few minutes ago I saw a news item saying that <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tsmc-delays-us-chip-fab-opening-says-us-talent-is-insufficient/">TSMC had to delay its microchip fab on US soil due to lack of talent</a>. This reminde...
One for the Science Fiction Fans Guy d'Andigne, the person behind the blog SFSS, recently put together an ebook made up of a handful of classic SF tales. It's a wonderful...
Old Stuff | Awesome Hugo blog Limitations breed creativity. Infinite possibilities mean you become obsessed with the means. Limitations force you to an end.
Building for Failure: Hidden dangers in Event-Driven Systems – Encore Blog We uncover the main hidden dangers when designing event-driven architectures and walk through effective mitigation and remediation strategies.
JuMP, GAMS, and the IJKLM model A recent blog post by GAMS demonstrated a significant performance difference between JuMP and GAMS on a model they call IJKLM. We respond to this blog post by explaining the difference in performance and presenting an alternative JuMP implementation with ...
Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho —at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.
Infrastructure Megaupdate | Gabriel's Blog Over the past however long it's been since my last infrastructure blog post, I've been doing a ton of work across various organisations and my own personal setup to get things up to a more acceptable standard. Rather than do small posts for each infrastru...
Saga Pattern With NServiceBus in C# Navigating distributed systems and microservices in C#? We should appreciate the combination of the saga pattern and NServiceBus.
AI for Enterprise Scenarios and Environments using Azure Cognitive Services AI for Enterprise Scenarios and Environments using Azure Cognitive Services ContainersAzure Cognitive Services offers a suite of artificial intelligence (AI)...
Designing the Espresso Sequencer: Combining HotShot Consensus with Tiramisu DA - HackMD We introduced the motivation, design principles and high-level requirements of Espresso Shared Decentralized Sequencer in an earlier note. In this series of notes, we will dive deeper into understanding the design of the two key components of our sequence...
Announcing TypeScript 3.0 - TypeScript TypeScript 3.0 is here! Today marks a new milestone in the TypeScript journey, serving JavaScript users everywhere.If you’re unfamiliar with TypeScript, it’s not too late to learn about it now! TypeScript is an extension of JavaScript that aims to bring s...
Microsoft's Semantic Kernel AI SDK Adds Java, Integrates with Azure Cognitive Search -- Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft has been busy updating its Semantic Kernel open source SDK for creating AI-infused applications, recently adding Java support and integration with Azure Cognitive Search.
Document your secrets, please TL;DR env-sample-sync automates syncing .env with env.sample It’s available here on Github. The problem If you have a look through any software or infrastructure project you’ve worked on in the past, it won’t take long before you come ac...
pain.001 – blog/knowledge/iso_20022_pain_001 — evrim.zone I briefly referred to pain.001 in my project article for batch2sepa, and there are some overlaps (see: copy-pasted sections) between that article and this one. Nevertheless, the focus for this article is about using ISO 20022 in the real world.
Domain Sins of My Youth Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Totality Recently Eric and I have been chatting with Daan Leijen, of Koka fame, discussing among other things the distribution of effects. Daan estimated that for a typical program written in Koka the distribution of effects would roughly be something like:
Rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure complexity, and the current state of infrastructure as code. This is problem space that many talented people are tackling.
Moving Text Elegantly in Emacs Suppose that you want to edit a list ["a", "b", "c", "d"] so its ordering is ["b", "c", "a", "d"]. How would you...
Compromised Microsoft Key: More Impactful Than We Thought | Wiz Blog Our investigation of the security incident disclosed by Microsoft and CISA and attributed to Chinese threat actor Storm-0558, found that this incident seems to have a broader scope than originally assumed. Organizations using Microsoft and Azure services ...
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