Rive Renderer — now open source and available on all platforms
Made for Rive and dedicated to our runtimes.
Suspicious discontinuities
If you read any personal finance forums late last year, there's a decent chance you ran across a question from someone who was desperately trying to lose money before the end of the year. There are a number of ways someone could do this; one commonly suggested…
A Primer on LLM Security – Hacking Large Language Models for Beginners
This article provides a short introduction into Large Language Model (LLM) security as well as red teaming LLMs.
TuxTower
Welcome to TuxTower, my personal website where I share my thoughts, experiences, and adventures with you. I am a Computer Science student trying to get somewhere in life.
Moving from Homebrew to pkgsrc
This was not so straight forward also I'm new to MacOS so there are things about xcode and environment variables that I did not know until today. Asking jperkin in #smartos irc channel, he suggested two variables to add to /opt/pkg/etc/mk.conf
This is how the Swedish labour market works
A guide to the role of trade unions, collective agreements, freedom of association and who does what on the Swedish labour market.
Thoughts on WordPress FSE and Block Themes — Asko Nõmm
I've given a good look into the future of developing WordPress websites, and there's no question that the future is Block Themes with Full Site Editing given how much the WordPress team invests effort into that. That said, I have a few issues with the current …
Logging: The Unsung Hero in Developer Security - Here's Why and How — Withstand Security
Believe me there is nothing more fun than working with logging, but knowing what make good logs can go a long way into improving the security of your application
It might not need a label
One hallmark of “programmer UI” is using labels for everything. Here I show why this is often a design mistake, with some examples. I suggest how to identify over-labelling, and how to fix it. Finally I suggest why programmers are biased towards this design mi…
Lessons Learned from Using LLMs to Evaluate LLMs | Traceloop Blog
When and how to use LLMs as a tool to evaluate and monitor the quality of other LLMs
The specialness of groups of 3
There is something very special about groups of three, like Harry, Ron and Hermione, or the holy trinity; threes seem to come all the time. One thing about the number three is that in a collection …
More thoughts on vulnerabilities and misaligned incentives
Mar 20, 2024 Tags: oss, security
UN/LOCODE Function Codes – nghbrs
The UN/LOCODE Function Codes uses a set of function codes in order to make the function or functions of a location extremely clear. The system is somewhat counterintuitive, but this page will explain it.
What the UK Government gets wrong about QR codes
Regular blogging by Terence Eden.
Tiny Model, Massive PDF Corpus: URL Embeddings for 8.3 Million PDFs
2024 March 20
Your Code May Be Elegant
OmniTI Seeds: leaf; This article expresses an opinion or just a downright rant.
Melatonin and Anxiety: Everything Explained
Key Takeaways: Melatonin plays a crucial role in promoting relaxation and helping you fall asleep Some studies suggest that it may help alleviate anxiety
Knee Deep in tree-sitter Queries
tree-sitter is a parser generator. You can use it to parse source code which is the first step of static analysis. For example, GitHub uses it to highlight code, code navigation, and also in CodeQL extractors. TL;DR: Queries are great for capturing text from c…
Open-source is a chainsaw
Open-source is popular among software engineers and has been for decades. But far from a silver bullet that automatically makes everything better, open-source is a double-edged sword. It can make wonderful, sustainable projects or break the teams behind them. …
Eio 1.0 Release: Introducing a new Effects-Based I/O Library for OCaml
The OCaml 5 update brought much-anticipated support for programming on multiple cores. It also introduced support for concurrency via effect…
require(esm) in Node.js
Recently I landed experimental support for require()-ing synchronous ES modules in Node.js, a feature that has been long overdue. In the pull request, I commented with my understanding about why it di
🔬 Rustls: Continuous Benchmarking Case Study
A continuous benchmarking case study for the Rustls project. Learn how they catch performance regressions in CI.
(Type) Checking the LLM
Some environments are better suited for Copilot than others
The Dashboard
Here, all of it! Click the buttons, expand the dropdowns, fill the inputs, multi-select one or two or three onto the graph, with its period in days or weeks or months (your choice), not this tab but the next, the next, or wait no the hamburger. Every insight t…
My QR Code Tattoo - samantha.wiki
My QR Code Tattoo - samantha.wiki
Why I built Slick Deploy
Slick Deploy is a CLI tool to declaratively deploy containers with Caddy
"Default forward": How I write to my clients to avoid getting stuck
As a freelancer (and previously as an employee operating with relatively high autonomy), I communicate daily with clients on various things I need for my work to progress. One of these things is the very basic approval. Here's a deliverable, please say yes or …
.NET 9 Preview — New LINQ Methods
.NET 9 is planned to be released in November 2024, but the preview version is already available. One of the new .NET 9 features is the new…
Flightradar24’s new GPS jamming map | Flightradar24 Blog
Learn how to view areas of GPS jamming affecting aircraft around the world and how GPS jamming affects aviation.
Introducing .NET Smart Components - AI-powered UI controls - .NET Blog
Introducing .NET Smart Components, a set of genuinely useful AI-powered UI components that you can quickly and easily add to .NET apps.
Moon Landing Mission Profiles
Using the DisplayInformation class from a desktop Win32 application, part 1 - The Old New Thing
A little interop music.
Regex character “$” doesn't mean “end-of-string”
This article is about a bit of surprising behavior I recently discovered using Python's regex module (re) while developing SBOM tooling for CPython. Folks who've worked with regular expressions be...
MudBlazor List Items: How To Create Awesome Blazor List Views
See how you can use MudBlazor list items to make awesome GUIs! Properly leverage the MustList and MudListItem controls to get custom user interfaces!
How to Solve 1000 Leetcode Problems in 300 Days?
Learn how I tackled 1000 LeetCode problems in just 300 days. Find out the strategies and tips that helped me boost my coding skills.
Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests
A team of neurologists, stem cell specialists and molecular biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and led by a group at Stanford University School of Medicine has found evidence that the root cause of Alzheimer's disease may be fat buildu…
GitHub - ynqa/jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq
interactive JSON filter using jq. Contribute to ynqa/jnv development by creating an account on GitHub.
General Performance Tip: Logging
Recently, an enhanced logging method for .NET 6 was added, outperforming the existing approach. This utilizes a source generator to integrate LoggerMessageAttribute for improved logging performance…
Conventional Message Routing in Wolverine
I got a little feedback over the weekend that some folks newly encountering Wolverine for the first time think that it’s harder to use than some other tools because “it doesn’t do…
Introduction to Text Parsing in C# using Parakeet
An introduction to building recursive descent parsers in C# using the Parakeet parsing library.
Blazor’s CSS isolation ::deep issue and solution
Fixing the ::deep pseudo-selector for Blazor CSS isolation
Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans
Organizations should prioritize measuring developer productivity using data from humans, rather than data from systems.
NuGet–Change the global-packages cache location
Just before the start of my weekend, I got a message from one of our administrators, the disk space on one of our build servers was filling ...
.Net Aspire - A Brief Introduction
After recently seeing a demo of .Net Aspire, I’ve been playing around with some basics and, I have to say, I’m really impressed. I’m not sure I’d start moving…
LEGO price per part over the years
Has LEGO prices gone up or down? Let's find out.
March 2024: Exploring open source at Microsoft, and other highlights for developers
Explore some of the open-source projects at Microsoft and resources that will help you start contributing to and managing your own open-source projects. And..
A better jittering approach for discretization acknowledgment in density estimation
In How to build a smooth density estimation for a discrete sample using jittering, I proposed a jittering approach. It turned out that it does not always work well. It is not always capable of preserving the original distribution shape and avoiding gaps. In...
App Service Outbound Traffic through VNet Gets 403 When Trying to Access Another App Service with Public Network Access Enabled, but has a Private Endpoint
.NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Jaliya Udagedara