The year of exploration: My Journey to Founding Quesma
Debug, simplify and execute.
Fairness and kindness are not weaknesses
You are much closer to sleeping on the streets than sleeping in the mansion of a billionaire. And the envious desire to sleep in the mansion of the billionaire is what is destroying our environment. We have allowed the greedy and cruel to dominate and their in…
How to avoid picking terrible metrics
The only sure fire way I know to change something, is to start by measuring it. That’s true at a personal level for things like a 5k time as well as in a professional setting for SMART goals, OKRs or whatever variant is currently in fashion. While wanting to
Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element - localghost
A very frustrating brownie recipe illustrates why a semantic element may actally NOT be the right tool for the job.
How I'm Writing CSS in 2024
Notes on the state of the CSS ecosystem and tooling.
The browsers biggest TLS mistake
Much like a previous talk of mine at Chaos Computer Congress this blog post is a direct write-up of a talk, if you prefer to consume this kind of content in video form you can watch the video here:
Building a Personal Internet from Markdown Files
How Truly Random are Random Numbers?
How random numbers or bytes are generated in programming languages
GitHub - buybackoff/1brc
Contribute to buybackoff/1brc development by creating an account on GitHub.
7 lessons from building 9 startups as a solopreneur
1. Don't marry your idea 2. Ditch free plans 3. Subscriptions headache is real 4. Swap vitamins for painkillers 5. Emotions sell 6.First impressions matter 7. Food + Sleep + Workout = Psychiatrist
Attacks on machine learning models
With all the hype surrounding machine learning whether its with self driving cars or LLMs, there is a big elephant in the room which not a lot of people are talking about. Its not the danger of ChatGPT taking your jobs or deepfakes or the singularity. Its inst…
5 Strategies to Avoid Keyword Cannibalization in SEO
Explore the intricacies of keyword cannibalization in SEO with this comprehensive guide. Delve into effective strategies for identifying, avoiding, and resolving keyword overlap to enhance your website's search engine performance.
The dream of abundant computing
Popular science has failed.
Popularizing science once seemed like a wonderful idea. Knowledge that would otherwise be privilege of a handful few, would become a c...
Why Not RSS?
What do services offer instead of RSS? They want people to allow push notifications or subscribe by email. The problem is that people actually hate this way. We'd never allow notifications from services and sites…
Manufacturing and Selling Electronic Badges Part 1: Designing and Prototyping the board
I am a lead engineer with a deep interest in the messy stuff that surrounds software development. I’m not attached to any particular technology or tools, and I’m happiest when I can get stuck in with my team to deliver useful things for people. I like making t…
Shipping Fast Requires a High Degree of Trust
It means believing that each member will effectively handle their responsibilities, understanding that collective problem-solving is more powerful when issues arise, and recognizing that fast doesn't equate to reckless.
Low-hanging fruit | artagnon.com
Ramkumar Ramachandra's personal website
Niche Online Tournaments
Designer, tech enthusiast and entrepreneur of sorts
RIP: Software design pioneer Niklaus Wirth
Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89
Nino
Nino is the modular workspace for professionals. It is a collection of software that can interoperate with each other on the block-level from one uniform interface.
Structural Design Pattern - Decorator
In this post I will teach you Structural Decorator Design Pattern in .NET. All with live working demo.
School Mgmt App | Microservices With .NET Aspire & Blazor SSR | Part 4
Powered by Restream https://restream.ioLet's build a microservices app, orchestrated with .NET Aspire and using Blazor SSR on the front end. #dotnet JOIN as ...
School Mgmt App | Microservices With .NET Aspire & Blazor SSR | Part 4
Let's build a microservices app, orchestrated with .NET Aspire and using Blazor SSR on the front end. #dotnet JOIN as a member to gain access to the source c...
TIOBE Index - TIOBE
For the first time in the history of the TIOBE index, C# has won the programming language of the year award. Congratulations! C# has been a top 10 player for more than 2 decades and now that it is catching up with the big 4 languages, it won the well-deserved …
Have you ever used AWS CDK Explorer for VS Code?
Do you know that the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code includes CDK Explorer? This feature will be...
PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file
Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard
AoE is written in Assembly - is this actually TRUE?! :O
Posted in r/aoe2 by u/BendicantMias • 175 points and 146 comments
What is Inversion of Control – A Simplified Beginner’s Guide
What is Inversion of Control? Learn about Inversion of Control (IOC) and Dependency Injection and how it can be applied in real-world scenarios.
Consistent Byte Representation of Strings in C# Without Encoding - Code Maze
Mastering consistent byte representation of strings in C# without encoding issues. Learn a simple method for byte array conversion.
systemd through the eyes of a musl distribution maintainer
Welcome back to FOSS Fridays! This week, I’m covering a real pickle. I’m acutely aware of the flames this blog post will inspire, but I feel it is important to write nevertheless. I volunteer my ti…
The Simplest Way To Build a URL Shortener in ASP.NET Core
Weird things engineers believe about Web development
I wrote most of this post sometime in 2022 but I think it holds up alright in 2024 so I decided to publish it for posterity. I don’t really like doing posts like this—I’d much rather share some innocuous learnings or tips but it turns out I have opinions too �…
The Quiet Genius of ICAO Airport Codes – Cranky Flier
I usually have a couple of these kinds of evergreen posts ready to go in case I’m not able to finish a more newsy post in time, so, here we are…. I’ll have the currently-unfinished post ready for Monday.
a client-side exception has occurred
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).
scheme modules vs whole-program compilation: fight — wingolog
wingolog: article: scheme modules vs whole-program compilation: fight
Comics I Loved In 2023
Reflecting on comics that resonated for me in 2023
Worse than SolarWinds: Three Steps to Hack Blockchains, GitHub, and ML through GitHub Actions
Six months ago, my friend and colleague Adnan Khan started researching a new class of CI/CD attacks. Adnan grasped the significance of these attacks after executing them against GitHub to gain tota…
The Ten Commandments of Refactoring
musings - craig.banach.dev
Craig Banach - Personal Site
Red Tortoise Architecture – Matt Karas Blog
Starting a new greenfield project brings with it a lot of challenges, one of which involves devising an architecture that strikes a balance between being easy to comprehend and being performant. I wanted to consolidate my thoughts on architecture and transform…
Race and Fantasy
Starting the year off right with a reactionary screed. One thing that regularly causes internet squabbles is casting of fantasy and sci-fi c...
Early Stage Startup Handbook
My tales as a technical founder, manager, and software engineer.
Chess-GPT’s Internal World Model
A Chess-GPT Linear Emergent World Representation