Constellations are Younger than Continents — LessWrong
At the Bay Area Solstice, I heard the song Bold Orion for the first time. I like it a lot. It does, however, have one problem: …
I love my Ioniq, but I would never buy another Hyundai | Digital Trends
Hyundai makes great cars -- when they work. Despite loving my Ioniq, the automaker's sketchy support has made me reluctant to buy another.
The joys of holiday coding
MP 73: If you're writing code today, you're not alone.
Fixing my Yamaha Electone ME-50: An FM Synthesizer Home Organ from 1986
The home organ is, at least in my home of North America, a dead market, mostly because synthesizers can do pretty much anything the old beasts could. Neverth...
A Christmas Story
From the archives, the story they don't tell you.
The future vision of Ruby Parser
RubyKaigi 2023, #rubykaigi
std::print in C++23
Available for beta testing: Zotero for Android
We're happy to announce the beta of Zotero for Android. You can install the app from the Google Play Store:
Markdown Tables Suck
Microblog Tables are arguably the worst part of Markdown.
Sending free transactional emails with Cloudflare Workers
Learn how to send free transactional emails with Cloudflare Workers, with minimal setup and a simple workers API.
It's pretty cool to find out what stuff others use, and why people love lists of tech
It's pretty cool to find out what stuff others use, and why people love lists of tech
GTA 5 Source Code Leaked on Christmas Eve - GTA 6 and Bully 2 Hinted - Cyber Kendra
GTA 5 Source Code Leaked on Christmas Eve - GTA 6 and Bully 2 Hinted
A hard look at Certificate Transparency, Part II: CT in Reality
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face
Pro EP 97 : JSON Naming Policy Updates .NET 8
JsonNamingPolicy includes new naming policies for snake_case (with an underscore) and kebab-case (with a hyphen) property name conversions.
EP 38 : How to use Guard Clauses in C#
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APIs That Don't SUCK - Collections & IEnumerables In DotNet
Writing methods in C# and dotnet is easy, but writing APIs that don't suck takes some thought. This is especially important when dealing with iterators, IEnu...
The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close - Byte Cellar
I’ve been buying a copy of Maximum PC magazine at the airport newsstand on every long-distance trip I’ve taken over the past two decades. I’m primarily a Mac user but Maximum PC, which started life as boot, bought at these … Continue reading →
You don't need analytics on your blog
Dec 24, 2023 Tags: meta
Hydrothermal Vents
"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
05 Dec 2023 10:14
GTA 5 source code leaks online, giving Rockstar a huge blow on Christmas: Report
After Insomniac Games’ recent leak, it seems that GTA 5 developer Rockstar Games has been targeted next by leakers.
Measure and Visualize Metrics Correctly in .NET
Use code CLEAN20 and get 20% off the brand new "Deep Dive in Clean Architecture" course on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/deep-dive-clean-architectu...
That time the Word team sent presents to the children of WordPerfect's executive vice president - The Old New Thing
No, it wasn't creepy.
Weak events in C# - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to create weak events in C#.
Regular servicing makes all the difference
Minimised clearances, active hoods, new materials, new drive technologies – surely modern cars have reached their pinnacle?
Using Separate Read and Write EF Core DbContexts?
Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets
Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets
Ruby 3.3.0 Released
Posted by naruse on 25 Dec 2023
390: Goodbye 2023
We close out 2023 with some lightning topics including our favorite editor features, Tesla robots, AI Updates, Transcribing Scrolls, and plenty of holiday hacks.
5.0.2 Reboot
Life is long. A series of chapters as you move from one scene to the next. Childhood, becoming a young adult, possibly a parent at some point, and more.
Best engineers are focusing on helping others
My top insights on how best engineers are helping others + 🎁 additional tips from the LinkedIn and Substack community!
Did English ever have a formal version of "you"?
Off the top of my head, Danish "De" (practically never used), German "Sie", Chinese "您", French "vous", Spanish "usted" are formal ways of addressing
generals.io
Protect your general, command your army, take control of land, and capture other generals in this fast-paced multiplayer strategy game.
From Zero To IDE with Emacs and LSP
Using Emacs' built-in functionality to get code completion and more
Issue 40: The Holiday Edition Pt. I
Father Christmas carries a BIG BAG (of baggage)
How to survive in a Chinese company - Jaap Grolleman
I’ve now been working in Shanghai for over 5 years, and 14 months in a Chinese company using Mandarin as the main working language. So here I list the lessons I took from the past year — many things I should have done better, or things I’ve seen happen in othe…
JSON Constructors
Combining some obscure features of Go lets us ensure we never decode invalid objects, keeping our APIs and systems safe.
Security at Startup
In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until it’s too late. Even though at least
How I Reverse Engineered Vercel's v0.dev Prompt and Code Optimization Logic
Discovering Vercel's v0.dev project sparked my curiosity due to its exceptional output quality.
Seagin - Building Golang Projects in Public
Join me on Seagin as I embark on building unique projects like a Golang interpreter and an analytics app. Discover insights and stories from an indie hacker's journey of building in public.
CI Dream Dec 24, 2023
This is more of an android dream (that one with a unicorn) than a coherent post, but please indulge me. It's a short one at least!