21 October 2023

22 links · Saturday

Ultra FP64 – The Worlds First FPGA N64

This has been Five years in the making and written fully by myself. No leaks were used for the production of this core. Only emulators, reverse engineering and a lot of reading of patents. Coffee was overused as well

The boy who cried risk

Accurately gauging and mitigating risk is tough work.

Not Always the Best Idea – view source

In the context of data engineering we have our share of foot guns. One of those foot guns that I run into the most are stored procedures and views. In a team data engineering environment their nature is not conducive to effective work.

Integrating dynamic binaries in macOS apps - Alin Panaitiu

It's morning, 8:01am. A bit cold, as the fire has long stopped burning in the fireplace and the stone has lost its heat. Cora, the dog, is sleeping alone on the floor. Belly up as well, she seems to enjoy the cold. My wife is still snoozing so I have to carefu…

Iterating on a business idea

I’m a man of many, many, many ideas. I have a long list and a variety of interests. I’ve always wanted to start and more importantly run a successful small business. To build a product, get it to market and run with it. I’ve been apart of a few consultancy com…

People Can't Care About Everything

I originally posted an even more snarky response to this, but later deleted it when I realized they were just a teenager. Kids do not have decades of experience with buggy drivers, infuriating edge-cases, and broken promises necessary to understand and contrib…

Why data is hard

What once started as a simple script is now a new Chimera

Blazor Unit Testing – Dev Leader Weekly 14

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! We'll dive into Blazor unit testing in this issue, including how to use xunit and bunit for our tests!

Progress on no-GIL CPython

Back at the end of July, the Python steering council announced its intention to approve the proposal to make the global interpreter lock (GIL) optional over the next few Python releases. The details of that acceptance are still being decided on, but work on t…

CQRS Pattern With MediatR

Today I want to show you how to use the CQRS pattern to build fast and scalable applications. The CQRS pattern separates the writes and reads in the application. This separation can be logical or physical and has many benefits. I'm also going to show you how t…