14 December 2023

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Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography

For photographers and videographers, Apple’s Vision Pro will serve as a catalyst to rethink traditional photography. This technology, when combined with smartphones, represents yet another st…

Interpolation methods

Discussed here are a number of interpolation methods, this is by no means an exhaustive list but the methods shown tend to be those in common use in computer graphics. The main attributes is that they are easy to compute and are stable. Interpolation as used h…

Theming Wikipedia

Earlier this year, Wikipedia got a nice redesign. When it happened, I didn’t notice. I’ve been using a non-default theme for nearly 20 years.

I'm still daily driving postmarketOS

It only takes one person to make a difference.

Programs Are Games, Programming is a Game

In 11th grade, I wrote my first program, Dingo Hopper. In the game, the player controls a png of a dingo as it jumps over gray boxes. Dingo Hopper was not fu...

Making Money by Building a Community

Hello everyone. Today, I’m excited to share my journey and insights from building successful online communities in Garry’s Mod, Minecraft, and beyond at a young age, and also making mon…

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The UX of delivering parcels

I shipped identical boxes, less than a mile, with multiple delivery companies — one was seized by the police. This is the UX of delivering parcels.

Monty Anderson

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The Magic of Chrome's $0

This one weird trick will let you get a reference to a DOM Element in the Chrome DevTools console

The AI trust crisis

Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism. Benj Edwards rounds it up in Dropbox spooks users with new …

Simple sabotage for software

How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA

Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Jodie Burchell

On Saturday, February 17th, 2024, show #97 on C# Corner TV will feature a special guest appearance from Jodie Burchell, Data Science Developer Advocate at JetBrains. The episode is set to discuss t…

Entity Framework - Storing complex objects as JSON

From time to time, it is nice to store complex objects or lists as JSON in the database. With Entity Framework 8, this is now easily possible. But This was possible all along with Entity Framework 8.

Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer

The Home Doctor - Practical Medicine for Every Household - is a 304 page doctor written and approved guide on how to manage most health situations when help is not on the way. My mother has been working for one of the largest banks in the EU since before I was…

htmx is a erlang

htmx, a disciple of hypermedia, available only in hardcover do not look for alternatives, has been manifesting itself into existence recently (recently: after 10 years of work1) and has finally reached critical mass2.

Q&A: How Much Does This Channel Make?!

Today is exactly five years since my first YouTube video upload. It was an Introduction to Dependency Injection in C# video uploaded on December 14th, 2018.M...

Agora | The Search Engine for E-Commerce

Agora is the search engine for e-commerce products. We help merchants sell more by giving users an easy way to search, browse, and buy e-commerce products across the internet.

Kubernetes v1.29: Mandala

Authors: Kubernetes v1.29 Release Team Editors: Carol Valencia, Kristin Martin, Abigail McCarthy, James Quigley Announcing the release of Kubernetes v1.29: Mandala (The Universe), the last release of 2023! Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernete…

Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023 - Finals

Microsoft Excel World Championship is an esports tournament that is based in Microsoft Excel. The tournament has a series of Qualification Rounds followed by...

Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023 - Finals

Microsoft Excel World Championship is an esports tournament that is based in Microsoft Excel. The tournament has a series of Qualification Rounds followed by...

.NET Rocks! Agile Application Security with Laura Bell Main

It's almost 2024, do we still need to talk about securing our apps? Carl and Richard talk to Laura Bell Main about her ongoing efforts to get everyone involved in creating and operating software to be part of making that software secure. Laura talks about comm…