Where are all the women?
Exploring large language models' biases in historical knowledge
Is Signal App Killing My iPhone Battery?
I have been trying to find the culprit of the excessive battery consumption of my iPhone. Signal app may be the one to blame.
Rhodes wildfires - Andy Bell
You’ve probably already seen that Rhodes is currently being hammered with wildfires on the news. We’re currently, at the time of writing, in Rhodes on a family holiday and we’ve been affected by the wildfires. I’m going to note down our story and I’ll start by…
Why Can't America Teach Writing?
A blogger's lament
Why dream?
This world To what may I liken it? To autumn fields lit dimly in the dusk by lightning flashes —Minamoto-no-Shitago (911-93 AD). Source: Yoel Hoffman, Japanese Death Poems. I write down all my dreams, and I dream vividly. Why do we dream? There is no widely ac…
Old Roblox Data Leak Resurfaces, 4000 Users' Personal Information Exposed
Malicious actors have recently used an allegedly old data leak affecting Roblox developers
Dynamic vs. Static Config for My Tiling Window Manager
For the last few years I have been writing and maintaining a tiling window manager for Windows that has steadily grown in usage and popularity. My first exposure to tiling window managers was on macOS with kwm (which was succeeded by chunkwm and later yabai). …
Why Do Code Review at All?
Describing the benefits of code review.
Combining data with multiple fetch requests
Published on 25th July 2023
ChatGPT has been great for my mental health - Adam Grant
ChatGPT has been great for my mental health - Adam Grant
How I jailbroke the language learning app that sucked
A story about German, covid, and man in the middle attacks
The Power of Being New: A Proven Recipe for High Impact | Hazel Weakly
When starting a new job as a software engineer, it’s natural to feel the pressure of delivering immediate value and meeting the expectations of your role....
What it means to want it badly enough | Peter Piekarczyk
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Support small businesses (internet ones too) • Cory Dransfeldt
I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I enjoy hanging out with my beautiful family and 4 rescue dogs, technology, automation, music, writing, reading and tv and movies.
How To Check A Make Dependency For Existence Rather Than Newness
Today I learned about order only depedencies in make
MVUX or MVVM? Choosing the Right Pattern for Your .NET Projects
Pixel-Perfect Multi-Platform Applications with C# and WinUI for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux
The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor ($T_c \ge 400$ K, 127$^\circ$C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure. The superconductivity of LK-99 is proved with the Crit…
Four main books on robust statistics
Robust statistics is a practical and pragmatic branch of statistics. If you want to design reliable and trustworthy statistical procedures, the knowledge of robust statistics is essential. Unfortunately, it’s a challenging topic to learn. In this post...
Alice GG • Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions.A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price dat...
Azure Traffic Manager
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OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool - Decrypt
Dashing the hopes of liberal arts professors and teachers, OpenAI decommissions its AI content detector due to poor accuracy.
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Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - Nature Communications
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the climate system. Here, data-driven estimators for the time of tipping predict a potential AMOC collapse mid-century under the current emission scenario.
.NET Framework July 2023 Cumulative Update Preview - .NET Blog
July 2023 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework
Tracking HackerNews' Shifting Preferences for Remote Jobs Over 5 Years
In the previous post, we shared the reasons for the deception of a universal remote work environment. Many creative collaborations happen outside the scheduled interactions, and collocation speeds up the collaboration exchange. In real life, collaboration ofte…
Debugging .NET Containers with Visual Studio Code Docker Tools - .NET Blog
Use the Docker extension for Visual Studio Code to build and run containerized .NET applications easily
What We Know About LLMs (Primer)
Will Thompson
The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem
An article detailing the massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem; encompassing a lack of validation by the public registry, package manifest inconsistancies & assumptions about package managers & security products
Invoice Dragon - Create PDF Invoices and Receipts for Free
Create professional Invoices and Receipts effortlessly with Invoice Dragon and download as PDF for easy sharing and record-keeping. And it's all for free!
Deploy a website with Azure virtual machines - Configuring CI/CD pipelines
This post is about how to deploy an ASP.NET Core web application in Azure Virtual machines. This is part of series where we will be discussing about setting up web server, configuring custom domains, creating and installing SSL certificate in web server and fi…
Rock Your Debugging Game: Parallel Stack Window Tips You Need to Know! - Visual Studio Blog
In Visual Studio 2022 17.6 and 17.7 we added a ton of new features in that can take your multithreaded debugging to the next level. Understanding how your code behaves in a parallel environment is crucial as multithreaded programming becomes the norm. Luckily,…
Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing - The Old New Thing
If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.
Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed
There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and…
Clean Architecture | A Practical ASP.NET Core Implementation
💻Get the source code: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86323601🔥My Free .NET Backend Developer Roadmap: https://go.dotnetmicroservices.com/roadmapLearn how to...
5 ADVANCED xUnit.net Features You Must Know
Let's explore 5 xUnit.net advanced features that many don't know. 💎 Be a Patreon to get the source code: https://patreon.com/gsferreira🚨 KEY LINKS🤝 Suppor...
All You Need To Know About IHttpClientFactory in ASP.Net Core
When it comes to working with the HttpClient in Asp.Net Core, using IHttpClientFactory is the preferred way to go. But what does this even mean? How many ap...
Creating Dashboards with .NET 8’s New Metrics!
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 ...
What journalists should know about the atomic bombings
As we approach the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings, we're going to see a lot of journalistic takes on them — many of them totally wrong.
Common pitfalls in Go benchmarking
Go programmers have the good fortune of excellent testing and benchmarking tooling built into the standard library - in the testing package. However, benchmarking is hard. This isn't Go specific; it's just one of those things experienced developers learn over …
Paco Hope #BLM (@paco@infosec.exchange)
@regehr@mastodon.social Back in the day, I got called to a professor’s office (I was IT support in the CS department) and the professor was complaining his Sparc4 was running slow. First thing I did was minimise a window and there was just this black square. B…
Xml Deserialization in C# - Code Maze
In this article, we will learn about XML Deserialization in C#, what are the benefits and best practices for it.
The Fall of Stack Overflow / Ayhan Fuat Çelik | Observable
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Understanding HTTP host header and SNI
Learn about the difference between SNI and HTTP host headers. It is sometimes confusing.
Dr Seuss on Constructors
In the vibrant town of Bugville, known for its thrill, There lived a brisk coder named Sam, climbing up a skill hill. One day, he embarked…
How to set global setting for XUnit tests - Event-Driven.io
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Up and running with WebSocket
WebSockets best shines in situations where real time communication is important, you can see notable examples in chat applications and even Multiplayer gaming. In this piece I will be showing you how to create your own WebSocket server and client.
Code Coverage Metrics
This post looks at code coverage metrics - how they're generated, how to view them, and what they're useful for
Version Controlling Database Schema
In this post, I’m going to lay out the basis of version control when dealing with databases. Before starting, it’s worth pointing out that some systems don’t…
EI010: AI Processing Services (Part 4)
In this session, we will be discussing validations logic for AI Processing Service.
Pre 2013 Data Breach - Forum Thread
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How Cloudflare is staying ahead of the AMD Zen vulnerability known as “Zenbleed”
Zenbleed, tracked as CVE-2023-20593, is a flaw in the software that allows for the theft of data at a rate of 30kb per core, per second. This is more than fast enough to intercept private data as it passes through the processor
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
Women in Cryptography
Women in Cryptography