Breaking the Cycle 🔗💥 by Jennifer Daniel (This article was originally published on Jennifer’s Substack , January 17, 2023. Republished here with minor revis...
Loseless Image Compression Algorithms Delve into the realm of lossless image compression as we analyze and compare various techniques applied to real-world and randomly generated images. Discover insights into entropy, spatial prediction errors, and the application of Exp Golomb encoding, pro...
I'm turning 30 so naturally I'm switching to OpenBSD I’m kidding, I’m switching to OpenBSD because I like security or code quality or something. It’s totally not because the inexorable march of aging is starting to show its effects on my ability to down necessary-evil trivia like me and my friends used to d...
Supply chain attacks and the many (other) different ways I’ve backdoored your dependencies I recently read a blog post with a similar title as this one, which outlined different supply chain attacks on CI/CD pipelines, and largely focused on software immediately related to the deployment and development of products. Although the post contained ...
TeenSaver: Support The Kids In your Life Who have never Seen a Screensaver This spoof commercial aims to raise awareness about teenagers who have never seen a screensaver.
The Best Software Engineers Are Replaceable – Dev Leader Weekly 42 Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss the idea of the best software engineers being replaceable but indispensable.
GitHub - abi/secret-llama: Fully private LLM chatbot that runs entirely with a browser with no server needed. Supports Mistral and LLama 3. Fully private LLM chatbot that runs entirely with a browser with no server needed. Supports Mistral and LLama 3. - abi/secret-llama
Implementing API Gateway Authentication With YARP In this newsletter, we'll explore how you can implement API gateway authentication using YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy), a powerful and flexible reverse proxy library for .NET applications.
sudon't – Tony Finch My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the reasons for using it are mostly bullshit.
Deniable Encryption I ran into an interesting Reddit comment about deniable encryption and decided to spend an evening playing with it. The concept is that we have a way to...
Prometheus 2: The Open Source LLM born to Evaluate LLMs In today’s world, large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving and taking on an increasing number of tasks. However, ensuring these models perform well and deliver accurate, unbiased res…
I've Moved Onchain I posted this on AVC.com today explaining that I've moved here to AVC.XYZ.Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and ...
Cost efficient alternative to databricks lock-in | Georg Heiler Save money 💰 and increase developer productivity 👩💻👨💻 by limiting scope-creep of Spark-based data PaaS solutions: 🌐 turn them into an implementation detail 🔧.
A Few of the Birds I Love The barn swallow’s flight, the mocking bird’s song, the cardinal’s color, and the hummingbird’s character.
So Long, Gitpod I never thought I would write this post “so soon”, because I thought I got super lucky with Gitpod that it would be my first and final start-up. You may judge me as naive for thinking like this, bu…
social media is a terrible business have you seen the state of for-profit social media lately? because it isn't doing very well.
Analyzing poems with llm I recently got into poetry. I started writing but I didn't know if my texts were worth sharing and how to improve them. Because these texts were my "naked truth
Speeding up ELF relocations for store-based systems Since the introduction of Nix and similar store-based systems such as Guix or Spack, I have been fascinated about finding improvements that take advantage of the new paradigms they introduce. Linux distributions are traditionally dynamic in nature, with s...
RSS: how to fix your internet feed RSS can help you create your own internet feed instead of depending on social media
Context is a key ingredient for engineers My tales as a technical founder, manager, and software engineer.
varoa.net | Galo Navarro Once at Last.fm we had an integer overflow in anidentify field. I can’t recall where exactly. But I do remember thatthe inconvenience of having a bunch of Ha...