Hey there, Jordan here 👋. You’re probably familiar with most of my articles being a “how-to” guide. Those guides come from my real-world experience and lessons I learned—usually from mistakes I made. This article is going to cover the 5 biggest lessons
Here's my solopreneur experience from getting SaaS ideas to launching and getting the first customer.
My wife uses Windows and over the years I've helped her move things to new systems. Win8, 10 and now 11. With every change the UI changes. N...
On the controlled burn of online profiles
I've always been a straight shooter. Perhaps it's the Dutch culture or the protestant roots, but mystery, rituals and concepts annoy me. If ...
Riffling from factory order to complete randomness.
From my first desk job working at my college newspaper. My first job was working at a small deli and grocery store in Lake Tahoe when I was 15. It was a job that came full circle some twenty years later when my wife and I bought a place called Tracy’s Drive-I…
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Recently, tsnsrv has been getting a lot of high-quality contributions that add better support for Headscale and custom certificates, among other things. As they always do when things change, bugs crept in, and frustratingly, not in a way that existing tests co…
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The dashboard resource's page subscribes to resource updates. Along with the subscription is a collection of initial data that were cached resources. This didn't work quite as intended. The subscri...
Whether you call it imposter syndrome or simply your jerkbrain acting up, we all have our moments of feeling like a fake and that, someday, everyone will find out. And at it turns out, one of the professions most prone to imposter syndrome is software developm…
In this post I’m going to experiment using ChatGPT and Copilot to help generate the XAML for pages in a Windows application. Since we’ll be using WinUI and the Windows App SDK, the application can be extended to support other platforms via the Uno Platform. C…
Learn how to use Polly in C# to handle faults and retries with ease! Check these 3 code examples showcasing different use cases of Polly in C#!
CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course by Adrian Sampson on programming language implementation. It covers universal compilers topics like intermediate representations, data flow, and “classic” optimizations as well as more research-flavored topics such as p…
How I solved the One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) in Go nine times, from a simple unoptimised version that takes 1 minute 45 seconds, to an optimised and parallelised version that takes 4 seconds.
This PR adds support for: Registering a Seq container dependency as part of a .NET Aspire solution Adding OTLP log and trace exporters to send logs and traces from the .NET Aspire solution to the ...
Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still g…
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Landlords and property managers can’t collude on rental pricing. Using new technology to do it doesn’t change that antitrust fundamental. Regardless of the industry you’re in, if your business uses an algorithm to determine prices, a brief filed by the FTC and…
When you look at others, it sometimes seems like they have everything perfectly sorted out. The reality is that everyone is just figuring things out as they go. So, don't let that hold you back; just go ahead and do your thing.
Modern large language models (like ChatGPT) learn to generate new samples by modeling the data distribution of natural text. However, the underlying methodology has largely remained stagnant over the last century: although different architectures have been dev…
At the end of my undergrad, I realized that I can’t do anything by myself. I don’t like to do things by myself; I don’t ...
TalbeFlip v1.6.0 is released, a free update for direct customers and Mac App Store users. It finally brings resizable fonts, and a first glimpse towards JSON support.
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a long time. Normally I haunt the comment section on Hacker News and whenever an article about GA comes up I post something to the effect of: “GA is okay but it’s not as good as those people say, there’s something…
To start with, there are two personal incidents.
Discover OpenTelemetry with Uptrace, a concise exploration into advanced application monitoring. Learn to implement observability, tracing, and metrics with practical examples. Perfect for developers seeking to boost application performance and tackle monitori…
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DataColada have a recent blog about their groundhog package, intended to aid in reproducible science. This is more from a perspective of “I have this historical code, how can I try to replicate tha…
Since wiping my Github over a year ago I’ve taken a much more, let’s say, impatient approach to my work.
I started a new web app recently and was surprised to see the official React documentation pushes users to Next.js when starting a new project. This is crazy! React is actively moving potential users away from using it directly and onto an abstraction layer on…
My friend Steve, N8GNJ and the editor of the Zero Retries Newsletter has been pitching ideas lately about how to grow the amateur service. It’s admirable and ambitious, but I generally avoid this issue because a) I have no viable solution to offer, and b) I do…