Black Parrot Labs Blog: When designing an application with JPA/Hibernate, I’ve encountered a common pattern that suggests developers should channel as many of their interactions as possible with their database via their persistence entities and ORM, avoiding w…
I recently upgraded from a Google Pixel 7 to Pixel 8 phone. Nothing earth shattering about this upgrade. Incremental. "Performance smartphones," as the DOJ recently called iPhones and high end Androids, have leveled off in core functionality. The Pixel 8 is sl…
When I am interested in reading tech news, I have a few sites I often visit, such as: https://news.ycombinator.com (aka Hacker News) https://lobste.rs https://www.reddit.com/r/programming
I’ve been sharing this set of notes more and more as time goes by. I suppose you could say most people care too much about what most people think. I don’t expect to be able to change most people’s minds on this. But I’m interested in getting to know the…
The urgency often obscures the fact that incidents cause more incidents. Incidents are not isolated events but links in a chain, each capable of setting off a cascade of further issues. The key lies in resisting these impulses, favoring a methodical exploratio…
Hi everyone, this is my first time writing on the internet, and I wanted to share some of the ideas that I have explored over the past few months at Entrepre...
We introduce OpenVoice, a versatile instant voice cloning approach that requires only a short audio clip from the reference speaker to replicate their voice and generate speech in multiple languages. OpenVoice enables granular control over voice styles, includ…
Have you tried adding a .gif to your .NET MAUI application, but only see a still image and wonder why it doesn't animate? 🤔 Well, today you will discover how to solve this quickly and easily! 🚀✨
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GIFs are made up of a series of images that creat…
On March 21, Redis Ltd. announced that the Redis "in-memory data store" project would now be
released under non-free, source-available licenses, starting with Redis 7.4. The
news is unwelcome, but not entirely unexpected. What is unusual with this situation is…
When I was still working at Faculty, we took on a new client that was not yet named Matter. We eventually transitioned from an agency-client relationship to a startup relationship, where I became the
Jamba is a groundbreaking SSM-Transformer model that offers the best of both worlds, addressing the drawbacks of traditional Transformer architectures while maintaining their powerful capabilities.