I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti. It's a program that displays a badly made ASCII-art animation to punish you for your typing error - and after that magically launches the command you meant to launch. The code is available under …
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Recently, I helped a friend screen a candidate for a software engineering role. The candidate was an undergraduate computer science student, expecting to graduate in a few months. Here is the feedback I sent them after the interview.
Having wired networking is nice! The current iterations of Wi-Fi are admittedly very fast, but I feel a bit iffy trusting that the signal will always work at a good latency, when there's rogue slabs of concrete and surprise microwave sources to deal with. My h…
In my view, prompt engineering is now more about developing end-to-end generative AI systems than it is about editing prompts.
It took me a long time to see past forever projects. I told myself that making promises gave beginnings gravity. I labeled my newsletter a “lifelong project” not long after I started it. I called /mentoring a “movement” the day I announced it. Commit…
When we debug a program with printf() we have to recompile it whenever we add new printf() statements! Right!? Wrong! With gdb we can add printf() statements without recompiling a program and even …
A lightweight library for structured outputs with LLMs.
I recently stumbled upon this exciting problem from XKCD, aptly named as the Nerd-Sniping Problem: True to its name, it successfully managed to derail me from whatever it was that I was doing. The problem itself is quite curious, we have to find resistance bet…
After almost 8 years in big tech engineering leadership1, I’m taking the leap to go full-time on Instapaper (again!)
My last post seemed to garner a fair amount of interest and so I figured it would be good to cover some of the unspecified particulars that I left out of the previous post.
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Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
Explore the meanings of HTTP status codes, from 1XX informational to 5XX server errors, in our concise guide.
Reasons why Windows is terrible: People often wonder why I discourage the use of, poke fun at, say bad things about, or otherwise disparage Microsoft Windows. At any moment I usually can't come up with a big list of reasons, or I can't explain them well. ...
A musician sight-reads a piece when they play it from the sheet music for the first time. Depending on their experience level and the difficulty of the piece...
The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language modelling data set that consists of 22 smaller, high-quality datasets combined together.
Java developer recruitment will accelerate in 2024 as firms target greater efficiency and broader toolkits for teams
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Build a .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid app step-by-step.
This article provides a comprehensive guide on leveraging the Maps feature from the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit in a WinUI 3 App through the robust Embedding feature. The CommunityToolkit.Maui…
Teams Toolkit for is packed with the new exciting capabilities for .NET developers including new AI Bot templates, CodeLens integration, and new Copilot preview templates.
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Just before 17.30 CET, Sweden’s instrument of accession was deposited with the United States Government, as depositary of the North Atlantic Treaty...
A generalization of the ground rules of programming.
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Learn why async void methods in C# can be dangerous with clear code examples. A perfect for beginner software engineers wanting to understand the risks.
TOKYO - Nikon Corporation (Nikon) hereby announces its entry into an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding membership interests of RED.com, LLC (RED) whereby RED will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nikon, pursuant to a Membership Interest Purchase …
Last week, I received the following invitation to a compulsory on-site meeting, following management's repeated engagements with some sort of Agile shaman.
C# 12.0 - shipped with .NET 8.0 - brings us a new experimental language feature: Interceptors. An interceptor is basically the inverse of a goto statement th...
We have new releases for all supported .NET versions! Version 3.6 is here for .NET 6 and 7 and version 4.5 for .NET 8. Let's dive into the details...
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Learn how "The 2038 problem" could impact software, hardware, and more - and what can be done to prepare.
container image to single executable compiler. Contribute to NilsIrl/dockerc development by creating an account on GitHub.
An open source simulator based on the classic game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
Marten 7.0 was released this week with a bevy of improvements and some important new features. One important area of concentration was a series of changes sponsored by a JasperFx Software client to…
In alignment with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, AWS SDK for JavaScript v2 will enter maintenance mode on September 8, 2024 and reach end-of-support on September 8, 2025. Existing applications that use AWS SDK for JavaScript v2 will continue to functio…
Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.4! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of JavaScript by making it possible to declare and describe types. Writing types in our code allows us to explain intent a…
We will learn how to validate user input through HTML forms and provide visual feedback in case of a validation error.
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JavaScript Interop works differently with Blazor Server-side rendering
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In the past I’ve always used Apache Bench , Fiddler or Visual Studio Load Testing to test the performance of my ASP.NET (Core) applications ...
Ten years ago, a bunch of bigoted fascist assholes used false pretenses to terrorize women, queer people and people of color in the video game industry, in games media, and even in academic games s…
We’re happy to announce the release of Dapr 1.13.0! 🚀 🎉 🎈 We would like to extend our thanks to all the new and existing contributors who helped make this release happen. If you’re new to Dapr, visit the getting started page and familiarize yourself with Da…
When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability. Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability.
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.NET Aspire & Dapr - Robin KonradDapr, an establish framework for building secure & reliable microservices, and .Net Aspire, the new kid on the block, can be...