Terminal Count
Probably the most heart stopping moments in spaceflight occur at the final stages of a countdown to liftoff. Will it go or not? What happens once the engines start? Success or fai…
From 1s to 4ms
So zero-cost abstractions exist?
How to get micro startup ideas and launch fast
Speed is solopreneurs' best friend. Here is how to get micro startup ideas and build them fast.
Love is like Physics
The Force of Attraction
How Expensive Typos Change Stock Prices
While Lyft is not the only company to experience an expensive typo, the mistakes would be minimized if analysts knew Benford's Law.
Plus and Times Set Free
This essay chronicles the liberation of plus and times from narrow notions about what sorts of things can be added and multiplied — and, relatedly, what sorts of things numbers should be. With the …
Anonymous Exits - Pt. 1
It’s a sunny Tuesday morning in London. I’ve just arrived at a café near Waterloo and I’m pleased to see a smiling, exited founder. They arrived first - I suppose they now have time on their hands…? Welcome to the first in our series of ‘Anonymous Exits’. In o…
Running Doom on Snowflake
Have you ever wondered if your favorite Data Warehouse can run Doom? Well, here you go!
Musk's biography: why it's interesting - Byte Tank
Possibilities, eels and hovercrafts, costs, whys and whos, the algorithm
A One Handed Accessible Keyboard, Inspired by FrogPad
A couple of years ago, I was in an incident that reduced the strength in my left shoulder. I’ve been waiting for an operation to restore the function to that shoulder, but we were warned the post-operative recovery period would be several months. So I started …
The future of our fdroid-compatible app repository
Guardian Project has been running its own fdroid-compatible app repository since 2012. Up until now, we worked to ensure that our repository had the same standards of free software as the official F-Droid repository. Therefore, the Guardian Project repository …
productizing health
10 Feb 2024
My Julia Book is in Libraries
December 6th, 2023
Some Thoughts on Jekyll
Jekyll is a static site generator built in Ruby. It’s been powering this site since 2012 but I’m worried that might not be true for much longer. I’m a bit torn on how to feel about this.
A maturity model for data-driven teams
Gathering and presenting metrics is not the end goal. Acting on it regularly is.
It takes about two months to write a technical book | Swizec Teller
Swizec shares software engineering lessons from production in his books, articles, talks, and workshops
Shipping quality software in hostile environments
A story of overcoming technical debt in a startup environment
Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine
The origins of Tailwind and how it is framed against semantic CSS
GitHub - davidfowl/AspirePulumi: A demo showing pulumi and aspire
A demo showing pulumi and aspire. Contribute to davidfowl/AspirePulumi development by creating an account on GitHub.
Blazor WASM Dynamic Component
In this post I will teach what is dynamic component and how to use dynamic component in your Blazor applications. All with live working demo.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
Was chilling then felt the haptic feed back triggering on my watch. Looked at it and someone was scrolling through looking at my fitness and health app and trying to get my personal info. Also they where trying to get into my photos. I stared pressing the butt…
Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip
Playing around with the Representation Engineering paper, I made some interesting control vectors, and a Python package to make your own.
You Didn't Know You Could Do This With C# Anonymous Types
How to Check if a Number Is Positive or Negative in C# - Code Maze
In this article, we will discuss the different ways to check if a number is positive or negative with some simple code example in C#.
How to Store Any Object in the Database With EF Core
AMD and ZPrize using FPGAs to Accelerate Zero Knowledge
Zero Knowledge (ZK) cryptography is an exciting new frontier for blockchain innovation. In 2023, AMD collaborated with ZPrize, putting our FPGAs to work by p...
Windows preview · Ollama Blog
Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, making it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. Ollama on Windows includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and serves the Ollama AP…
Sunk Cost Fallacy & How To Be Unsinkable – Dev Leader Weekly 31
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dive into the sunk cost fallacy, how it affected me, and how it may affect you!
GitHub - davidfowl/AspireEventHub: A sample showing event hubs and aspire
A sample showing event hubs and aspire. Contribute to davidfowl/AspireEventHub development by creating an account on GitHub.
200,000 Facebook Marketplace user records leaked on hacking forum
A threat actor leaked 200,000 records on a hacker forum, claiming they contained the mobile phone numbers, email addresses, and other personal information of Facebook Marketplace users.
You should listen to The Changelog · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Why you should really be adding The Changelog (and its network of podcasts) to your rotation of tech podcasts.
Getting Things Done with LogSeq
Introduction I was first introduced to the concept of “second-brain” from Tobi Lutke, the founder of Shopify. The topic started because someone asked whether he still codes - now that he is a founder of such a large company. Tobi went on to explain that he spe…
Presence, NULL, and Product Requirements in Rails
A short article why NOT NULL constraints are essential for long-term product health.
Packaging Scrutiny for NixOS
A detailed walkthrough how I packaged Scrutiny, a S.M.A.R.T disk monitoring tool, for NixOS. Includes details of creating a NixOS module and using the NixOS testing framework to validate its functionality.
Personalized arXiv Recommendation Service
Surrendering to FOMO on important AI "breakthroughs", I subscribed to Arxiv mailing list. Like all of the subscribers, I can't read all the submissions in the daily email. To be completely honest, I simply archive the email from my inbox everyday without even …
EFCore.Visualizer - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio - View Entity Framework Core query plan directly inside Visual Studio.
Muse retrospective · Adam Wiggins
The inside story of four years building Muse, a canvas-based thinking tool for iPad and Mac.
Replicate & Fly cold-start latency
Replicate has been my default serverless GPU choice in the past, and I’ve been trying to use it to set up some embedding models, like SPLADE and a Q&A-optimized bi-encoder. On the other hand, I’m a huge fan of Fly for hosting, and they’ve just announced GPUs.
Don't start an analytics company
Business success is mostly about timing. In technology, an underlying innovation drives a decade-long wave of business outcomes built on that innovation. The internet became generally available in 1991 and drove a wave of Internet 1.0 outcomes that accelerated…
My AirPods setup on Arch Linux
Apple AirPods, and most modern Bluetooth headphones, can be paired to multiple devices at once. This is great because Bluetooth pairing is often a lengthy and involved process. However, when multiple paired devices are powered on and in the proximity of the he…
Tech Support Stories Part 2
Since folks seemed to like the first one, I figured I would do another one. These are just interesting stories from my whole time doing IT-type work. Feel free to subscribe via RSS but know that this isn't the only kind of writing I do. Getting Started I gr…
Other Notes on West Africa
I’ve written about Nigeria, Benin, The Gambia, Mauritania, Ghana, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast in West Africa. I also traveled to Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mali, but I…
Australia Consumer Optimized 25 Million Leads | BreachForums
Australia Consumer Optimized 25 Million LeadsHeadersemail,DateOfBirth,FirstName,LastName,Address,...
Soft Skills in Software Engineering
Introduction If you’re running a business, “We need to refactor this module.” is not something you’d like to hear. It doesn’t mean anything unless you come from a technical origin. In fact, it’s a scary statement because that means you need to change...
Game Font Forensics
VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.
How I did the layout for my self-published book
This is a rundown of how I typeset and laid out my self-published book for the web version, the EPUB version, and the printed version.
The Layoff - Xe Iaso
Published on 02/17/2024, 2706 words, 10 minutes to read
Let's talk about the price, baby!
"$175 for two cubic meters, delivered" (that's roughly 0.55 cord) Me: Ask him if he would agree to 160 "Would you agree to $160?" "No. I don't work for free." Wife: Wow. I don't feel like buying firewood from him anymore. The harsh winter isn't over yet, a…
Manually Migrate ZITADEL with PostgreSQL
As you, the reader, found this article, it is likely that you want to manually migrate the ZITADEL PostgreSQL database to a new version. Now, normally this step is being done by the zitadel setup command with the --init-projections=true flag but, as we all kno…
Why are people unhealthy ?
In my observation there are 3 categories of people : Bucket A : Knowledgeable and practitioner Those who have knowledge about health and follow decent health practices. Bucket B: Knowledgeable and …
I can't wait for the autogenerated movies
published on Feb 17, 2024
Linting away manipulation of raw pointers with C++20
Some words, some code.
Your Startup is Slow - Let's fix it
My tales as a technical founder, manager, and software engineer.