March 12, 2024, © Leeham News: Loss of confidence in Boeing’s leadership from its customers is growing, according to industry sources. It’s not just with the leadership at Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), where CEO Stan Deal is under... Read More
Being great doesn't mean you have to be perfect.
The personal website of Yusuf Birader
A selection of functional programming concepts that I feel are helpful to all developers.
It almost feels wrong. Maybe it is.
A story of when I walked away from a good project.
What does the NYPD want with the social media data from a police accountability account?
Software people are always all up in the XY problem: someone asks about how to do X when what they’re really trying to solve is Y. I find the YX problem much more frustrating: where software people decide that they want to answer question Y even though what so…
Making a falling sand simulator
Today being the second Tuesday of the month marks the occurrence of Patch Tuesday, signifying the release of a new set of updates. The second preview for .NET 9 is now available in the Preview chan…
In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to set up private channels using Laravel Valet and Soketi. (...) - Ahmet Yusuf
First month on a database team
The first person who ever really explained newsletter monetization to me was James Altucher, and if you’ve seen the Newsletter Engine business model we published at Trends, it was strongly influenced by him.
It’s one of the trends that came with WFH being more accepted (hello, COVID, my (old) friend) in the workplace.
Programmer's blog
I researched the background of the top 100 CEOs on the Fortune 500 (US) Company List; this is what I found.
Making something useful with a graph database, beyond the basic stuff. Creating multiple nodes and relationships and navigating the graph
Exploring the transformative power of setting achievable goals, this blog post delves into the art of breaking down grand ambitions into manageable tasks to foster progress and reduce stress
I learn a lot from talking to large language models (LLMs) like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. Frequently I’ll ask the LLM to quiz me on what it’s taught me, in order to test my understanding of what I’ve learned. I find that doing so helps me learn the material…
This CSS is now part of most websites I make:
Over the course of 2023-ish I wrote two Python frameworks (1) (1)I’d like to avoid a semantic debate, but for clarity’s sake when I say, “framework” I mean a library that holistically and generically targets the way you write applications (or tests in the case…
December 2023.
It’s obvious why knowing English is crucial in today’s world. moreover, the learning process of a second (or more!) language is rewarding on its own. I’ll explain both separately:
I like using one machine and setup for everything, from serious development work to hobby projects to managing my finances. This is very convenient, as often the lines between these are blurred. But it is also scary if I think of the large number of people who…
Introducing Bebop v3 - the fastest data serialization runtime in the world, and your new favorite replacement for Protocol Buffers 🚀 Now supporting: WASM powered compiler extensions 🦾 Python supp...
Display the native splash screen for an extended amount of time, allowing the application to fully load the UI.📄Uno Platform Docs: https://platform.uno/docs...
.NET Aspire preview 4 is now available and includes many improvements and new capabilities
Toyota's strategic pivot from Xamarin Forms to Uno Platform, exploring the intricacies of migrating critical mobile applications within a global enterprise
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. This extension, built upon the C# Dev Kit and C# extensions, gives you a comprehensive toolkit for your Unity development in Visual Studio Code across Windows, …
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database service that offers high availability, global distribution, automatic scalability and…
We’re providing more flexibility for developers who distribute apps in the European Union (EU), including introducing a new way to distribute apps directly from a developer’s website.More flexibilityDevelopers who’ve agreed to the Alternative Terms Addendum fo…
Cohen’s d is one of the most popular measures of the effect size. Unfortunately, it was designed for the normal distribution, which may make it a misleading measure in the non-normal case. And the real distributions are never normal. When we discuss d...
Not very well, thanks to storing the pointer and IID pair in a helper type.
Something missing from this series on estimation, until now, has been a discussion of how to “break down” a project into a well-defined task list. I’d not previously written about this because, to me, it’s largely intuitive. But it isn’t for everyone, so this …
Contribute to openai/transformer-debugger development by creating an account on GitHub.
Recently, I got a new laptop and had to set it up so I could start using it. But I wasn't really in the mood to go through the same old steps which I had explained in this post earlier. I was complaining about this to my colleague, and there came the suggestio…
Tidy your exception handling code with 3 quick clean code tips.💎 Be a Patreon to get the source code: https://patreon.com/gsferreira🎓 Join the Course waiti...
Learn about plugin architecture in C# to create extensible apps! This article provides examples with code snippets to explain how to start with C# plugins.
Trangram is a free one-stop platform to create, animate and share motion graphics.
Ensuring code quality and reliability is crucial in software development. MediatR, a popular library for the in-process request/response pattern, simplifies component communication but requires thorough testing. Unit testing with MediatR offers a swift way to …
Learn how to mock requests made through a HttpClient in C#. Unit testing code that makes external requests is easy using this simple approach.
The team is thrilled to introduce the much-anticipated release of Kdenlive 24.02, featuring a substantial upgrade to our frameworks with the adoption of Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. This significant under-the-hood transformation establishes a robust foundation, s…
Just continuing a loose series about recent improvements in the big Marten 7.0 release: Revisioned Documents in Marten 7 Marten 7 makes “Write Model” Projections Super Recent Critter Stack Multi-Te…
Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz
Learn to integrate WebSockets with React and Node.js by delving into the foundational elements of real-time web applications.
This tutorial aims to give a gentle introduction to diffusion models, with a running example to illustrate how to build, train and sample from a simple diffusion model from scratch.
Learn how to automatically cast between types in C#! Leveraging implicit operators in C#, we can do away with explicit casts to convert between types.
While working on some class library code in C#, I noticed deprecation warnings in Visual Studio for the following NuGet packages: NuGet...
Learn how to configure Azure resources like Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Container Apps with connection strings and access keys in Azure with Bicep.
A reading of the first Don Box tenet, with some commentary.
Ok this post took a bit of inspiration from the C# Markup support that’s available for the Uno Platform where it’s easy to build a template selector (for a ListView for example) using a set of Case statements. This got me thinking that there must be a way that…
Webb measurements shed new light on a decade-long mystery.The rate at which the Universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos. However, a persistent dif…
The original ANSI C standard, C89, introduced the concept of “undefined behavior,” which was used both to describe the effect of outright bugs like accessing memory in a freed object and also to capture the fact that existing implementations differed about han…
I've recorded a video on how the plonk permutation works here, but I thought I would write a more incremental explanation about it for those who want MOAR! If things don't make sense in this explanation, I'm happy to dig into specifics in more detail, just ask…