IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java | TechCrunch
IBM's new product offering, Code Assistant for IBM Z, leverages a generative AI model to translate COBOL code to Java.
Define the Game
my working theories
Cool Caddy config tricks for your self-hosted domain
The HTML5 Herald
Rethinking the `setup` convention in Neovim. Is it time for a paradigm shift?
In the ever-evolving Neovim plugin ecosystem, the usage and appropriateness of a setup function for initializing plugins has become somewhat a hot topic. This discussion has sparked differing opinions among plugin developers.
Gap
Apprenticing to expand what I can build
AI Human Generator – Generate and Modify People Online
Use AI to generate people online that don’t exist, change clothing and modify face and body traits. Download generated people in different postures.
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Posted on Saturday, 19 August 2023, 15:46
Srikanth Vemaraju
Building software applications that handle millions of concurrent users is hard. Designing such applications need both technical skill and some...
How to set up a development environment in Android
How to set up a development environment on Android so that you can create anything from a simple script to an Android app using only your phone
Reflections on a Stanford Journey
It’s now been almost two years since graduating from Stanford, and I wanted to carve out a post to reflect deeply on how well I spent my time there, now with the benefit of hindsight, and with the additional goal of informing my future self to bias towards act…
Use web components for what they’re good at
Dave Rupert recently made a bit of a stir with his post “If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?”. I’ve been working with web components for a few years now, so I…
How minimal is too minimal? Brainstorming syntax for VisionScript | James' Coffee Blog
Yesterday evening I was thinking about syntax for VisionScript, the programming language on which I am working. My goal is to make the syntax as intuitive as possible while retaining a clear structure. As an aside, VisionScript got to the front-page of Hacker …
On Task Anxiety
The to-do list in my head is a big source of my anxiety. Sometimes, it just so happens that the number of tasks that I have to complete starts to feel impossible and begins to overwhelm me. That in turn kickstarts a negative feedback loop. I find it difficult…
Ergaster - Syncing Notes with Obsidian
I often braindump in bed, before picking up the ideas and fleshing them out on a computer the next day. This means I need to synchronise Obsidian between my computers and phone.
Accounting systems before TigerBeetle
TigerBeetle is an interesting project to follow. It links to interesting papers, it challenges assumptions, algorithms, and architecture of past systems. It satisfies my cravings for low-level programming.
Lewis Carson
In this article I'll give a brief introduction to programming for computer chess. I'll assume some knowledge about chess and how a chess engine operates under the hood. I'm by no means an expert on the topic, but I recently created a chess engine and wanted to…
Use Laravel’s Illuminate Database Query Builder With WordPress
I’ve been working on Smolblog, a social web blogging app. To help me get to a minimally viable product sooner, I’ve been building it on top of WordPress. However, WordPress is built exclusively for the MySQL database, and I eventually want Smolblog to work wit…
An Excruciatingly Detailed Guide To SSH (But Only The Things I Actually Find Useful) · Graham Helton
Welcome We’ve all seen these great diagrams of how SSH port forwarding works but if your brain is anything like mine, these diagrams leave you with a lot of unanswered questions. If you’re on a red team, understanding how to traverse a netw…
String Poaster
I made a tool to cross post my tweets to X, bluesky, threads, mastodon and farcaster.
Sharing Code Between Different Hardware/Prototypes with Meadow IoT
James is joined by Adrian Stevens who shows us how easy it is to share code when building IoT solutions with Meadow when working with different hardware and ...
Microsoft Previews 'Python in Excel' -- Visual Studio Magazine
Integrating the data science darling programming language with the super-popular spreadsheet program means analysts will no longer have to jump through so many workaround hoops or use third-party add-ins.
Episode 470 - News Roundup
Episode 76 - BUILD and Ignite NewsWe talk about the latest Azure announcements from //BUILD and Ignite. Media file: http://azpodcas...Episode 359 - 2020 RoundupCynthia, Cale, Evan and Sujit reminisce about the year that was 2020. They share their highlights, …
Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Cataloging
Posts in this series: * Intro * Cataloging When I talk with folks about modernization, inevitably the question comes up "OK but how much is it going to cost?" This is never an easy question but first we need to understand what exactly our target state is…
.NET Framework August 2023 Cumulative Update Preview - .NET Blog
August 2023 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework
Creating a pretty console logger using Go's slog package
Programming Adventures
Pronunciation
New Video: 'await' Return Types
A new video is available on my YouTube channel: Why do you have to return a Task when you use "await" in a C# method? . The video is a q...
GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.
Safely use secrets in HTTP requests in Visual Studio 2022 - Visual Studio Blog
In the 17.8 Preview 1 version of Visual Studio 2022 we have updated the HTTP file editor in to enable you to externalize variables to make testing your Web APIs across different environments easier. This update also includes support to handle secrets in a secu…
Welk bedrag mag ik maximaal contant betalen?
Op dit moment mag u alle aankopen contant betalen. Bij contante aankopen boven de € 10.000 moet de verkoper een cliëntenonderzoek doen. Maar niet alle verkopers accepteren contant geld. Het kabinet werkt aan een wetsvoorstel om contante betalingen vanaf € 3.00…
On writing loops in PPL and continuation-passing style, part 2 - The Old New Thing
Recursion comes back.
EF Core 8.0 Preview: Raw SQL Queries for Unmapped Types
.NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Jaliya Udagedara
LIVE telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing
ISRO Headquarters, Antariksh Bhavan, New BEL Road Bengaluru-560 094
.NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 7 with Keyboard Accelerators, Fixes and Improvements
.NET MAUI is now available in .NET 8 Preview 7. This version introduces keyboard accelerators and more bug fixes and enhancements. This is the final familiarisation release of .NET 8. With this announcement came further community concerns about the framework.
How to Conditionally Resolve Dependencies in .NET
Explain how to resolve dependencies conditionally with dependency injection in .net including practical code samples
Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Random Is an Insecure Random Number Generator
The article discusses the security risks associated with using the Random class in .NET to generate random numbers and recommends using the RandomNumberGenerator instead, which provides more secure…
Max Goodhart (@chromakode@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Yesterday morning, I pulled open my laptop to send a quick email. It had a frozen black screen, so I rebooted it, and… oh crap. My 2-year-old SSD had unceremoniously died. This was a gut punch, but I had an ace in the hole. I'm typing this…
.NET MAUI Summer Coding Adventure
The .NET MAUI Summer Coding Adventure is a 4-week initiative led by Microsoft Reactor and Microsoft MVPs that aims to help you acquire the fundamental..
Why to Modernize with Blazor? A Winning Strategy
Are you exploring how to modernize existing applications, moving from MVC, Razor Pages or even Web Forms? Take a look at what Blazor brings to the table.
Introducing Microsoft Playwright Testing private preview
Run your Playwright tests easily at scale.
EI021: AI Processing Service (Part 11)
MiniWord - Microsoft Office Word Templating
Using Microsoft Word and mail merge functionality from C# and .NET using MiniWord with OpenXML.
Cleaning up dangling DNS entries for an Azure DNS Zone
Mark Heath's Development Blog
Writing Component Specs
Building reusable UI components is a challenging endeavor. A well-defined spec template and process can help.
Exploring Blazor Changes in .NET 8 - Capture User Input with Forms
Sooner or later you're going to need to capture user input in your Server Side Rendered .NET 8 Blazor components
ACH guide
Learn how US-based businesses can accept payments with ACH Direct Debit.
GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
Developers can now bring their own data to customize GPT-3.5 Turbo for their use cases.