Lunar reflections during SLIM landing – Daniel Estévez In my previous post, I looked at the Doppler of the SLIM S-band telemetry signal during its landing on the Moon. I showed some waterfall plots of the signal around the residual carrier. In these, a reflection on the lunar surface was visible. The followin...
Making a Booklet Recently I was compiling a booklet of devotions for a mission trip. My goal was to make a simple booklet using standard paper, printed double-sided, and folded down the middle. I looked online for options and kept finding web-based tools that looked like ...
Chat with your PDF Build a simple streamlit app using LLMs and vector databases to answer arbitrary questions from a PDF document
Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spending the d...
Somewhere There’s Cheese | A Grand Day Out (1989) This is what makes Wallace and Gromit’s take on space travel so revolutionary: to go to the moon, outer space, a place of infinite interest and possibilities, with the simplest goal in mind: to eat some cheese.
Creating an alternative browser engine for iOS Apple will soon be allowing alternative browser engines on iOS, so I built one.
The Use Case for Mac Virtual Display I’ll be honest, I still think Mac Virtual Display (MVD) for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) is lackluster. Though I think I have a better understanding of why some reviewers or tech bloggers/enthu…
Piano Transformer Language models are useful for more than just natural language. I train a model to generate piano music.
Loosing the ability to read and think deeply I'm losing my ability to read deeply and understand what I'm reading, and I'm not alone. I used to be able to sit with a book for hours at a time, fully …
Fashion starts as a Sketch I don’t like how long it takes for me to figure out ideas. Too much code is written before I figure out what I wanted is not what I made. There is a bookstore near me that I frequent and on the shelf was the book Drawing Ideas. Through this book, I have c...
Notes on 1ML In dialects of ML, every value has a type. Modules are values in 1ML, so they too have a type.
Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft? This is a story about the messy state of Microsoft’s DirectX shader compiler, and trying to wrangle it into a nicer experience for game developers. In some respects, building the DXC compiler better than how Microsoft does.
Converting a Razor Pages website to Blazor - Part 16 Powered by Restream https://restream.ioFritz works on the TagzApp open source application. You can find it at https://github.com/FritzAndFriends/TagzApp
I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker’s Death When Amazon worker Magda Malinowska spoke out about a coworker’s death at a warehouse in Poland, Amazon fired her. Now a court has ruled that Amazon committed illegal union busting. Malinowska tells Jacobin why Amazon is so afraid of its workers organizin...
Entity Framework Core in Blazor – Dev Leader Weekly 30 Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dive into how we can use entity framework core in our Blazor application!
Introduction To Data Types And Variables (For Absolute Beginners) Data Types and Variables are a fundamental topic of programming in general. If you are e beginner, this video is the last one you need to watch about data ty...
Different Ways to Validate an Uploaded File in ASP.Net Core - Code Maze As developers, we should always validate an uploaded file. Whether the user misclicks on the wrong file or purposely uploads a malicious one.
Microsoft confirms name of the next major version of Windows, and it's not Windows 12 Windows 11 version 24H2 will be the name of the next major Windows OS update.
The Power of Open Telemetry with Dr. Sally Wahba Open Telemetry plays a pivotal role in monitoring, tracing, and understanding complex distributed systems. From practical applications to real-world examples, Scott and Dr. Sally break down the how and why of Open Telemetry, offering a perspective to harn...
Manage secrets by using Bicep - Azure Resource Manager Describes how to manage secrets by using Bicep and Azure Key Vault.
Why .NET's Most Ambitious Feature Might Fail Use code MODULAR and get 20% off the brand new "Getting Started with Modular Monoliths" course on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/getting-started-mod...
Getting the Current User in Clean Architecture The applications you build serve your users (customers), to help them solve some problems. It's a common requirement that you will need to know who the current application user is.
Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023 Ransomware attackers broke records in 2023, pulling in over $1 billion from victims. Learn how and get the trends you need to know for 2024.