Fat tails are weird
If you have taken a statistics class it may have included stuff like basic measure theory. Lebesgue measures and integrals and their relations to other means of integration. If your course was math heavy (like
KISS high-availability with OpenBSD
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Asking for help is a core developer skill — Rami James
Asking for help is a core skill for a developer. Those who can not learn it will limit their potential.
Toll-free Bridging in Kotlin Native - Alex DeLorenzo
While Kotlin Native supports Objective-C interoperability, it does not support simply casting CF types as NS types, and vice versa, in order to use them. If ...
Automatic differentiation with dual numbers
Differentiation is the heart of most machine learning, but how can we differentiate arbitrary functions? Perhaps the simplest accurate method is using dual numbers.
How to create a blog using Golang
An introductory guide on how to build and develop website with Golang focused on building a simple blog from scratch, ending with a deployable application.
What I Learned About Computers in Nand2Tetris Part 1
Sharing key insights on how computers work, from logic gates and binary arithmetic to assembly languages.
Why is observability so expensive?
It’s no secret that observability costs are top of mind for many organizations in the post-zero interest rate phenomenon (ZIRP) era (see here, here, and here for example discussions, though similar se
I think I enjoy Scrum too much, how can I adopt it to my own life?
Reading, writing, cooking, and maybe some other random explorations.
How to Create a Spoiler Tag in HTML
Using HTML to create a spoiler tag that shows/hides content.
A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages
Sometimes I post in an online community of computer touchers, as one does. When talking flippantly about programming languages, it’s sometimes useful to glob a bunch of them together based on characteristics, whether superficial or not. This started with jokes…
Evolution of Java Usage at Netflix
Stop releasing bugs with fully automated end-to-end test coverage (Sponsored) Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. But how do you get that kind of coverage? You either spend years scaling in-house QA — or you get there in…
.NET MAUI – Styles
This is the third article in the recently started series titled Developer Tips, which offers concise hints to enhance productivity. All the articles in the series can be accessed from here. A style…
Testing Your Native AOT Applications - .NET Blog
MSTest introduces a Native AOT compatible test runner and engine for testing your Native AOT applications.
Eclipse Clouds
reflections on distrusting xz
Was the ssh backdoor the only goal that "Jia Tan" was pursuing with their multi-year operation against xz?
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
Windows debugger trick: Breaking when a specific debugger message is printed - The Old New Thing
A different kind of conditional breakpoint.
NixOS is not reproducible
Okay, sorry for the clickbait. NixOS is not reproducible according to the Reproducible Builds definition. I keep reading people making this claim repeatedly on orange-site, even LWN.net made a similar claim when writing about Nix and Guix earlier this week.1 A…
Examples of Inheritance in C# – A Simplified Introduction to OOP
See examples of inheritance in C# in this introductory guide to object oriented programming. Learn about when to use inheritance in C# and... when not to!
String Performance: Checking for a Character
Developers commonly check for a specific character in a string using methods like “Contains(‘M’)” or “Contains(“M”)”. Benchmark results show that usi…
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🦑 The 14 pains of building your own billing system - Arnon Shimoni
Trying to cobble together your own billing system is like wrestling an octopus that's armed with tax codes and invoices instead of tentacles. It's a beast of complexity that can tangle up everything from customer support to compliance. I have 14 points on why …