26 February 2024

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Agile Cult

The biggest harm for agile does not come from heretics, it comes from zealots.

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Community website for Apache Superset™, a data visualization and data exploration platform

Au Large

Mistral Large is our flagship model, with top-tier reasoning capacities. It is also available on Azure AI.

Important Change in Prism Pre-Release 9.0.401-pre - ChecoX

Hey Prism Users, I wanted to give you a heads-up about a significant change in the latest pre-release version of Prism (9.0.401-pre). In this release, Prism has renamed the method OnAppStart to CreateWindow. You might notice this change when updating your appl…

Home Screen Advantage - Infrequently Noted

Cupertino's attempt to scuttle Progressive Web Apps under cover of chaos is exactly what it appears to be: a shocking attempt to keep the web from ever emerging as a true threat to the App Store and blame regulators for Apple's own malicious choices. By hook o…

Mastering Tuples in .NET

This article explores the use of tuples in .NET, highlighting their lightweight nature for grouping multiple values of different types. It discusses creating tuples with the Tuple class or shorthan…

String Performance: Comparing Strings with Globalization

In the String Performance chapter of the code performance book, the author demonstrates the usage of string.Compare() with StringComparison. Benchmark results are provided, along with a recommendat…

nekoweb

cuz internet is for the cats

A Swag at the Critter Stack Road Map for Early 2024

From some notes that Oskar, Babu, and I banged out this past week, so keep your expectations for the quality of prose here! Notes in bold are my updates since this original document was banged out …

Chaotic Thoughts About Order

“The law demands that we atoneWhen we take things we do not ownBut leaves the lords and ladies fineWho take things that are yours and mine.” Anonymous (17th century) “Moloch whose love is endless o…

Framing is Everything

We're framing differently, and living in different worlds because of it

Designing Personal Software

I've been thinking a lot about the type of software I want to build and use. I spend so much of my screen time using large feature-heavy software, which are one-size-fits-none at best or outright hostile. I'm left frustrated, distracted, and wanting so…

That will never change. Not here.

I remember starting my first job, excited that this hobby I had as a kid could pay so well. 55k, more than double what my parents had ever made. Diving into code written by other people for the first time was exciting. Hundreds of thousands of lines of hastily…

AAC and Debian

Currently, in a default installation of Debian with the GNOME desktop, Bluetooth headphones that require the AAC codec1 cannot be used. As the Debian wiki outlines, using the AAC codec over Bluetooth, while technically supported by PipeWire, is explicitly disa…