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Parsing and all that
A web log. Mostly about computer science-y stuff.
A POI Database in One Line
This week, the Overture Maps Foundation released a handy command-line tool for downloading a subset of the Overture dataset. Usage is simple:
The Illustrated Word2vec
Discussions: Hacker News (347 points, 37 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (151 points, 19 comments) Translations: Chinese (Simplified), French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian “There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It …
Simplifying the xz backdoor
Step by step I simplify the beginning of the xz backdoor so there’s no doubt of what it does.
The Domino Computer
A playable guide to how we built a computer from 10,000 dominoes
Fallout Bullshit
Let me start this with saying that I a HUGE fan of Interplay based Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 games. After some time I also enjoyed slightly criticized (and not without a reason) the Fallout Tactics: …
Oh the Humanity
On the failure of Humane and why you can't build Apple with Venture Capital.
Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir
In my last post, I discussed some work I had done building Nero, the assistant of the future that I’ve always wanted. I ended up creating an end-to-end example which used Nx, OpenAI APIs, and…
EURISKO lives | Paraprogramming Dispatches
Programming blog of Eugene
Distraction Driven Development: Chip Cullen
You're now a distraction filter.
The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
A few months ago I updated my PHP version. PHP 5.4 to 5.5 . I never had any problems updating PHP before. I follow its development closely and try to remove my deprecated functions long before they ar
I Took a Day Off Work for Time Dilation - Adam Grant
I Took a Day Off Work for Time Dilation - Adam Grant
Measuring personal growth
My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth and how to get to the next order of magnitude scale. If they’re making $1M ARR today, they think about how to get to $10M ARR. If they have 1,000 users toda…
Do best practices really matter?
Lately I've been re-examining a lot of what I once thought to be best practices.
Toward inquiry
In *Being Wrong,* Kathryn Shulz addresses the commonly held myth that we should at all times avoid hedging our bets:
Yet Another REST Client?
Why I built Yaak, a new REST client, and what sets it apart from the rest
Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit
Everything I went through to add support for HD resolutions to Halo 2 on the Original Xbox. From patching the game's rendering engine and memory allocator, to hot patching the Xbox OS, to overclocking the GPU and running performance benchmarks. This post cover…
Basic Things Mar 22, 2024
After working on the initial stages of several largish projects, I accumulated a list of things that share the following three properties:
Session: App Service Networking Features for Developers at 2024 Global Azure, Auckland
.NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Jaliya Udagedara
Redis is forked
Hey friends. I need to do a better job keeping this newsletter up to date instead of posting random links on five million social platforms, each of which now...
Announcing: Azure Developers - .NET Day - .NET Blog
Join us on April 30th for a full day of online training and discover the latest services and features in Azure designed specifically for .NET developers.
Meta Llama 3
Build the future of AI with Meta Llama 3. Now available with both 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned versions to support a wide range of applications.
Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 2 - The Old New Thing
First attempt to try to fix the race condition.
Most micromanagers are blind to being seen as one
The diary of a micromanager... Yes, me.
Default Azure Credentials Under the Hood – Tore Nestenius
GitHub - loopj/short-stack: World's Smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs
World's Smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs - loopj/short-stack
Invariance, Contravariance, and Covariance in C# Generics - Code Maze
The role, significance, usage, and differences between invariance, contravariance and covariance in C# generics programming.
Apple Deployment/Distribution for .NET MAUI Apps
Let's explore the many nuances, myths and roadblocks for modern Apple device deployment and app distribution.
Database Subsetting and Data Extraction - Simple Talk
Let's start by defining a subset and why you would require a data subset? When dealing with the development, testing and releasing of new versions of an
What's New in the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET
A guide to the latest features and improvements in the Reliable Web App (RWA) enterprise app pattern for re-platforming to the cloud.
ASP.NET Core - Use factory based middleware with scoped services
Yesterday I talked about a problem we encountered when trying to inject a scoped service into ASP.NET Core middleware. The middleware used...
Eclipse Path Maps
Effort Engine demo
A quick preview of the Effort algorithm - more details on https://kolinko.github.io/effort/
There is always something: Fighting distractions as a software developer - ShiftMag
This article is a distraction. You should get back to your work! Or not?