3 October 2023

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The First Online Writer

Lessons from Justin Hall on rendering your unfiltered consciousness into hypertext

Why Are Query Plans Trees?

Looking at just about any database's EXPLAIN output will reveal that generally, queries get compiled into tree-shaped plans, rather than general cyclic...

Regulation is important – reasoning.page

It is popular among entrepreneurs to talk about how “bureaucracy” and “red tape” is “inhibiting innovation”. It is less popular to recognise why safety regulation is important.

The Marketplace Of Ideals

On Handmade, polarizing Internet debate, rational discussion, controversial personas, tribal conflict, and how they relate to the future of computing.

3 Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2023 [Ultimate Guide]

Fancy watching this as a video instead? Click below: Introduction I have around ~10k GitHub stars. I’ve come up with a bullet-pointed actionable list of how to make open-source projects popular. One of the projects I created had 67 lines of code and had on…

Stable Fiddusion

Frequency-domain blue noise generator

Hey, Computer, Make Me a Font

This is a story of my journey learning to build generative ML models from scratch and teaching a computer to create fonts in the process.

Work/Life Balance

A topic comes up somewhat regularly that irritates me. It's suggested, particularly in the tech community, that people should focus more on their life and less on work. It's suggested there's a regular atmosphere of over-work in this industry. I'm not one know…

Are Modern Games Designed to Waste Our Lives?

It's not just in your head. #gaming #gamedesign Support the channel (and join our Discord): https://www.patreon.com/BadEndFollow Superculture Network: https:...

Weekly 0070

Monday I had a productive day helping a customer with the Graph API authentication in a...

Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 8 - .NET Blog

.NET 8 added some key features for new functionality as well as performance improvements for developers including developers targeting Arm64 devices. In this blog I break down everything you need to know about the improvements in .NET 8.

Weighted Hodges-Lehmann location estimator and mixture distributions

The classic non-weighted Hodges-Lehmann location estimator of a sample \(\mathbf{x} = (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n)\) is defined as follows: \[\operatorname{HL}(\mathbf{x}) = \underset{1 \leq i \leq j \leq n}{\operatorname{median}} \left(\frac{x_i + x_j}{2} \righ...

How I Would Test-Drive a .NET CRUD API (TDD)

⭐️ Use the coupon code GUITDD to get a 20% discount course on my new TDD course: https://dometrain.com/course/from-zero-to-hero-test-driven-development-tdd-c...

If Conversion Within .NET - Part 1

This blog series gives an overview of the recently added If Conversion pass, with part one looking at the optimise bools optimisation.

First Blood Test for Dozens of Hereditary Cancers Approved by FDA

The FDA has approved the first blood test that can help identify dozens of potentially cancer-associated hereditary variants. The Invitae Common Hereditary Cancers Panel detects 100s of DNA variants in 47 genes that elevate risk of developing certain types of …

Symbol Keyword in JavaScript | Devlin Duldulao

JavaScript, as a programming language, continues to evolve over time with various updates, introducing features aimed to tackle the challenges that developers often face. One such feature is the introduction of the Symbol keyword, a new primitive type that was…

A Call for Developers | Jellyfin

Jellyfin needs your help to get better, so join us this October and beyond!

Rolling Forward to Major Versions in .NET

.NET Core has sophisticated policies that allows your applications that are compiled to specific versions of the .NET Runtime can roll forward to newer versions. You can specify what part of the version to roll forward and that generally works well, except for…

A journey into zero-knowledge proofs

My journey into zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) began in university, with me slouching in an amphitheater chair attending a cryptography course. "Zero-knowledge proofs", said the professor, "allow a prover to convince a verifier that they know something without r…