Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand, we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy years aside from the very obvious (exercise, don't smoke, don't be fat); on the other hand, by the time we have…
"Frequency of skier triggering increases strongly with slope angle."
Effective communication is an essential ingredient for success in both personal and professional life. It is a two-way process that involves both speaking AND listening.
Just long press.
Over the past few years, there’s been an under-discussed, but consequential vibe shift in the SF tech scene.
I share and analyse my DNA sequencing results. Furthermore, I discuss what it feels like to get your genome sequenced.
October 04, 2019
Recently I tried to use LLMs for test data generation out of an OpenAPI spec and use them for test purposes. This post gives insights and ideas for further improvements.
It’s pretty much the way of the world: beyond the basic enshittification story that has been so well told over the past year or so about how companies get worse and worse as they get more and more …
Aka, how to not accidentally become a jerk.
Embeddings are a really neat trick that often come wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. If you can make it through that jargon, they unlock powerful and exciting techniques …
Document-first approaches solve for the “why” and answer business questions. Demo-first approaches solve for the “how” and focus on the specifics of execution. You should selectively deploy one or the other method of building depending on the core constraints …
Cracks on the surface to actually see what’s behind
For a long time I’ve struggled to find a simple and good expense tracker. I’ve tried several different apps, most recently Wallet and before that, Settle Up. All of the apps I’ve tried worked fine, but usually felt too complicated, lacked some fundamental feat…
If your cache is shrinking your cash quicker than your response times, consider a hybrid approach.
Every once in a while, things become too much. Nature demands more energy from the big and bold things to survive, but less so from the small ones. As with the seasons, music and fashion, software isn’t exempt from this phenomenon — many apps hit the reset but…
There is spectrum on how easy it is to integrate a C (or C++ for that matter) library into a project. The issue is that the C ecosystem does not have a standard dependency manager, so each project big enough to require the use of external libraries needs to fi…
A friend and I were in an argument a few days ago, and I think there is a very important lesson to take away from it. The problem goes like this:
Conversational artificial intelligence is poised to change the nature of how all humans interact with computers. In this week's episode, community MVP Swamy ...
In this case, 'safety' doesn't refer to cybersecurity concerns, but rather unsafe images and text that AI developers in the Azure cloud might run across in various content categories and languages.
I've been writing tests for all sorts of different C# applications for many years. These include console applications, services, WPF apps, and even old-schoo...
As mentioned already at the end of the 3.0 announcement blog post (and repeated here), we are making some big changes for the V4 version of the library: We are changing the root namespace from Micr...
✅ Register for the Student Zone: https://aka.ms/netconf23/registration🔎 Event Page: https://aka.ms/netconf23/studentpageThe .NET Conf Student Zone is beginn...
Here's how I use rclone for offsite backups, which only costs cents
Protomaps is an alternative to Map APIs that you run on your own cloud storage.
In this post, I describe how to customize the behavior of the record copy constructor to clone an instance when using the with keyword.
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Become a Patreon and get special perks: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody, I'm Nick, and in this video, I'll show you some really questionab...
Another post that hopefully may come in handy to someone!Some APIs, but not all, notably older ones, allow passing a timeout value for the maximum allowed duration of its completion. What for those …
The latest release of .NET 8 Release Candidate 2 brings a lot of additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. This release is planned to be the last one before the final version of .NET 8 is released. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core ar…
Discover the easiest programming languages to learn in this beginner-friendly guide. From Python to JavaScript, let's see what options we have to work with!
Mastering platform-specific XAML in .NET MAUI: Customize your app's look for each platform and device type. Explore code-behind and XAML-based approaches.
How AutoMapper handles null value mapping. The consequences of incorrect null value mapping and how to ignore null Values with Automapper.
James found an iPhone on the ground completely destroyed and unable to turn on, what happens next will blow your mind!
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Read the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023 to gain the latest cybersecurity insights into the digital threat landscape and learn how you can empower your organization's digital defense
Lean Software Development is an agile project management and product development framework that originated from Lean manufacturing principles. It focuses on delivering value to the customer by optimizing resources, workflows, and processes.
October 23, 2023 is the 15th anniversary of Small Basic. Happy Birthday!!
The Event Sourcing pattern is functional and immutable. It handles the state of an application as a function of immutable sequences of…
An important lesson for a software architect is to design the system for the requirements you have today not for what a possible future coul...
Functional Programming in TypeScript through Algebra, Numbers, Euclidean Plane and Fractals
Vertical Slice Architecture is a design pattern that emphasizes high-cohesion and low-coupling at feature level
Full series information: https://aka.ms/learnlive-get-started-with-csharpMore info here: https://aka.ms/learnlive-get-started-with-csharp-Ep6Follow on Micros...
Azure is a cloud platform that offers a wide range of services for the development, deployment and management of applications and data.