31 August 2023

43 links · Thursday

The myth of Google's plus

No, not Google+ the failed social media service. I want to talk about the + operator that Google Search used to support. People often tell this story: Google used to let you type +foo to search for pages which actually contained the word "foo". ...

Plans for Marten V7 and Beyond

As you might know, the Marten core team is in the process of building a new business around the “Critter Stack” tools (Marten + Wolverine and a couple smaller things…

There is no "bouncing" back - Dan Norris

I used to love my story. But I sit here now after waking up from another painful nightmare, one that has kept repeating for basically 365 days straight, no longer loving my story, trying to “bounce” back. I had my whole identity tied up with being a boss entre…

Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future”

Late last year, this interesting article “Flatpak Is Not the Future” was published to the public, and very quickly grabbed the Linux community’s attention. I want to go over some of the author’s arguments and explain some of the misunderstanding and claims.

Scrum: Failure By Design?

Are we witnessing the first signs of a post-Scrum era?

Loud & Wrong

Bourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.

Time After Time

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. – Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto

Freedom Is in Being Who You Are

I've been toying with a conceptualisation of free will for a while, it's not fully formed but I want to write about it and try to sketch it out and make it more concrete.

What is Yield Return in C#? #shorts

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Data om 186 000 svenska pensionskunder har läckt ut

Namn, adress, personnummer och premieinformation har röjts för närmare 186 000 kunder hos pensionsbolaget AMF. Ett ryskt, ökänt hackernätverk misstänks stå bakom attacken. – Vi tar händelsen på stort allvar, säger Lena Ringström, it-chef på AMF.

Absurd Success

So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft …

The Reverse Red Herring

Our VP of Engineering relates a story where a seemingly innocuous clue turns out to be key - a reverse red herring!

Reasoning Task, Async & Await in .NET

As developers, we often encounter situations where we need to perform tasks concurrently to ensure our applications run efficiently. The…

.NET Rocks! Applied Large Language Models with Brian MacKay

How can a large language model help your application? Carl and Richard talk to Brian MacKay about his work with large language models, including ChatGPT - and others! Brian talks about how LLMs continue to evolve and the limitations they have. But identifying …

Where did AI come from and where is it going?

Where did AI come from and where is it going? John Maeda provides his perspective in the final video in this series. But stay tuned for more in John's upcomi...