22 February 2024

56 links · Thursday

3D modeling with ChatGPT - Solidified ephemerality

I have asked ChatGPT to generate 3D models. ChatGPT can not generate 3D models directly but 3D models can generated via intermediary OpenSCAD scripts: OpenSCAD provides a scripting language to describe objects which can be combined to form 3D models. ChatGPT u…

No Simple Answers In Stereo

There was some continued back and forth on Mastodon about stereo conversions. Mac Stories contributor Jonathan Reed asked a couple questions: What’s your view on the best converted movies? Do you think they hold up just as well vs (non-bad) native 3D movies? …

Women in mathematics – a case study

The following describes harassment experienced by a woman who is a professor of mathematics, whose words I’m posting here (anonymously and with names changed) with her permission. ===========…

Ruby could use a Heap

If you’re studying for coding interviews, I recommend Python, which is a shame because I am a Ruby programmer. The only major drawback to using Ruby is that ...

In a GenAI world. Only Identity Matters.

I recently had to do some thinking about Identity and with the recent surge of deepfakes, the one thing that is clear is that Identity has become the most critical problem. Obviously identity has a…

i need some hackers

TL;DR - I need money for a non-profit international cybersecurity competition (open-source, too). Donations here, email chris@breadchris.com for sponsorship opportunities. I am running an annual cyber security competition (mcpshsf, soon to be xctf) with my hig…

Subprime Intelligence

Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this Wednesday! Last week, Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how OpenAI's DALL-E turns …

Interesting Uses of Ansible’s ternary filter

Some time ago I discovered an interesting use of the ternary-filter in Ansible. A ternary-filter in Ansible is a filter that takes three arguments: a condition, a value if the condition is true and an alternative value if the condition is false. Here’s a simpl…

Typing A Little Faster

I taught myself to type a bit faster over the course of a couple of months. I’d estimate that I spent 5 hours of effort to gain 10 to 20 words per minute (WPM) in speed. Before I started, I mostly …

CSS-only DVD Screensaver animation

An in-depth look at how I created a DVD screensaver animation without any Javascript, presented with dynamic examples and code snippets.

Water cooling is overkill for Pi 5

tl;dr: 52Pi and Seeed Studio's water cooling solution for the Raspberry Pi 5 can be fun, and works better than any other solution—but at a steep price, and with a number of annoying quirks.

Our Company Is Doing So Well That You’re All Fired

“Paramount Global lays off about 800 employees, a day after announcing record Super Bowl ratings.” — CNBC - - -Thank you for jumping on this last-m...

Bluesky: An Open Social Web - Bluesky

We’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.

WinForms in a 64-Bit world - our strategy going forward - .NET Blog

32-bit components can impose challenges for WinForms developers in a 64-bit Visual Studio environment, but there are options to solve this. Component modernization, migrating to .NET 6+ and a new option to use the out-of-process Designer for Framework are the …

What is .NET Conf?

Continuing our series from the #dotNETConf: So what is .NET Conf you ask? Jeff Fitz shares what kind of content you'll find in the virtual event's pages.Find...

Building with Blazor

Powered by Restream https://restream.ioLet's build new features for our open source web applications TagzApp. You can find it at https://github.com/FritzAndF...

Creating an E-Book OnBoarding screen in .NET MAUI

Hello! 🙋‍♀️ In this article, we'll replicate an E-Book Onboarding UI, a design sourced from Dribbble. This piece will help you strengthen your skills in managing XAML in a quick and easy way. The most fun part is that you'll learn to build it yourself! 😍 Exp…

Stable Diffusion 3 — Stability AI

Announcing Stable Diffusion 3 in early preview, our most capable text-to-image model with greatly improved performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and spelling abilities.

ASP.NET Core Full Course For Beginners

💻Get the source code: https://go.dotnetacademy.io/aspnet8-full-courseLearn how to build a complete web application backend, step by step, using ASP.NET Core...

C# for Beginners – 5 Simplified Concepts in C#

Considering C# as you get started on your programming journey? This article is focused on C# for beginners, and I've included 5 concepts from C# with code!

Azure Functions Extensibility - Runtime Scaling

This post explores how the Azure Functions extensions participate in scaling activities through runtime scaling and target-based scaling features.

Useful Uses of cat

When I write shell one-liners that transform the contents of some file, they often look something like

Circle STARKs

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Is GitHub Copilot the new rubber duck?

#dotNETConf 2023 introduced .NET 8 and much more. We're highlighting some of the conference's golden nuggets in this new series.This series of One Dev Questi...