string concatenation benchmarks in .NET 8
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The real question behind 'what do you want?' - Byte Tank
Its influence on the process to build achievable goals
Why it is hard to generate beautiful HTML emails (from Markdown)
Developer-centric products often want to send newsletter with embedded code snippets. Some of them already write their documentation in Markdown. Why not write the newsletter in Markdown too and turn it into nicely formatted HTML email...!?
Ghostty Devlog 002
Hello! Welcome to the second official devlog for Ghostty 👻!
Entity Resolution Challenges
Entity Resolution (also known as Record Linkage, Deduplication etc) is the process of identifying the same entity (person, company, product etc) across one or more datasets and combining them into a single record.
Lessons learned from integrating with GPT in production
For the last ten months or so I've worked on integrating GPT (various flavours) with a large production codebase. It's been one of the most chaotic periods of my career, featuring numerous false starts, changes of direction and rapid improvements followed by m…
Every Phone Should Be Able to Run Personal Website
Back in 2009, anynone with a Nokia could have a personal website running on their own phone. Sadly this amazing piece of tech was never widely adopted. Today’s phone are far more powerful than those Nokias both in performance and battery backup and still we do…
a practical way to detect cargo-cult thinking
Note: sharp readers on Hacker News pointed out that this article seems to talk more about unfalsifiable beliefs and cognitive dissonance than cargo-culting. ...
Just normal web things.
A plea for us to get back to building websites that can do normal website things.
Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 - Slashdot
Bram Moolenaar was Vim's creator/maintainer/benevolent-dictator for life. Early this morning his family shared sad news on the Vim-announce Google Group. "It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023."…
How To Get a Cancellation Token In ASP.NET #shorts
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Terraform best practices for reliability at any scale - Substrate
Multi-account AWS: Solved
NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause
Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.
Value vs Reference Types in C# - In Depth Guide - Code Maze
In this article, we will learn about the categories of C# data types. We will focus on the differences between the value and reference types.
IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
Several people have opined on the recent announcement of Red Hat to change their terms of sales for their software. Here are some thoughts from Jon "maddog" Hall on it.
12 Shorthand Operators in C# Every Developer Should Know About - Coding Sonata
Learn about 12 Shorthand Operators in C#, these are really useful and widely used operators by C# software developers
Word to HTML is an abomination
Word to HTML is an abomination. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
It’s well-known at this point that GPT-4/GPT-3.5-turbo is non-deterministic, even at temperature=0.0. This is an odd behavior if you’re used to dense decoder-only models, where temp=0 should imply greedy sampling which should imply full determinism, because th…
XAML Based Navigation in Windows and Multi-Platform Applications with Uno.Extensions - Nick's .NET Travels
One of the more complex parts of building an application is getting navigation to work. In a Windows application (or in a multi-platform application using the Uno Platform) you can easily navigate between pages using Frame.Navigate and Frame.GoBack but what if…
Introducing Vector Search in Azure Cognitive Search | Azure Friday
Liam Cavanagh joins Scott Hanselman to explain vector search in Azure Cognitive Search. Vector search is a method of searching for information within various...
Kagi Search Stats
Kagi is an ad-free, premium search engine for people who value their time, attention and privacy. With results optimized to serve you and not the advertisers, Kagi is lightning fast and offers advanced features for customizing your search experience.
Modular Monolith Communication Patterns
Modular monoliths are becoming more popular in the software engineering community. The allure of Microservices is becoming less compelling. We also have seasoned veterans of our industry saying you should reconsider: > You shouldn't start a new project with m…