13 December 2023

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Your Supplements are a Lie

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Running a LLM on a M1 Mac 8GB

Run these commands step by step in the terminal. 1. Brew install LLM brew install llm 2. Install llm-gpt4all llm install llm-gpt4all 3. List the models llm models list You should see an output like this: OpenAI Chat: gpt-3.5-turbo (aliases: 3.5, chatgpt) OpenA…

On the Importance of Writing

Writing is an essential skill to develop if you want to reach “the next level” in your Knowledge Work career. Here's why.

Don’t rely on Big tech

Utilizing major providers’ services might seem like a smart idea when you’re getting started, but you’ll come to realize it’ll feel like punching the air. Conceptually it ma…

SMERF

Project page for SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields for Real-Time Large-Scene Exploration.

Personalizing Emacs Doc Navigation

TBH, I’ve long had a love/hate relationship with the documentation modes (e.g. Info, Help, Man, Shortdoc) provided by Emacs. While I’m grateful for their existence, I’ve never been enamored of...

Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader

There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of…

Primary Constructors in .NET 8

One of the new changes to the C# language is the primary constructor. Now, there has been some confusion around this topic, about why it exists, what purpose...

Github Language Stats

This website shows the popularity of programming languages on GitHub over time.

ELON FSD TIMELINE

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JetBrains accounts compromised

Just received this email from security@jetbrains.com ​ Dear user, You are receiving this email because you are a user of a JetBrains...

Every engineer should understand git reflog

s a software engineer, you’ve probably wondered how Git’s reflog works under the hood. That’s where this guide comes in.

Christmas Countdown: #11 Dependency Injection is not as easy as it seems

Dependency Injection is an extremely useful pattern. It has been used with EPiServer CMS for years - and with .NET Core it has truly become the go-to method of coupling your business logic together. However, once you start having services depend on other servi…

5 Things You Need to Know About Aspire and .NET 8

Each November, Microsoft unveils a major version of the .NET framework. And this year, the 2023 .NET Conference introduced .NET 8, the most significant upgrade yet. From its humble beginnings over two decades ago, .NET has been steadily moving toward a vision …

Dynamic Strategy State Pattern

This pattern helps activate and deactivate strategies within a state when switching to another state, depending on whether the other state contains that strategy or not.

What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024?

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2024 here.