nateraw.com - Why and How I trained MusicGen Songstarter
Explaining the motivation and process behind training musicgen-songstarter-v0.2, a model that generates useful song ideas for music producers.
"Run Your Own Mail Server" Kickstarter Update - Michael W Lucas
Pessimism is the path to happiness. Either you have the pleasure of being correct, or you are delightfully surprised.
The state of Vulkan apps in 2024
The Vulkan did not exploded (yet?)
Thoughts on PHP routing strategies · Prahlad Yeri
Routing is a tricky business in PHP simply because there is no one standard way of doing it. Starting from the most simple and benign (but inflexible) routing strategy of handling every incoming request in the index.php script to the highly flexible (but arcan…
Achieving a 100x speedup of DELETEs on PostgreSQL
"How did it get late so soon?" Photo by Murray Campbell on Unsplash Performance I recently had a query from a colleague regarding a slow DELETE query on PostgreSQL. On the face of it, it was simple enough. It had no CASCADE, and they were only deletin…
Marc Andreessen wants you to stay in school - Jonathan Garelick
Marc Andreessen isn’t always known for his good advice, but he was right in one memorable exchange: When asked by a Stanford student if they should drop out of college, he responded, “Stay in school. Because if you’re going to drop out, you won’t listen to me …
A New Architecture for a GUI Framework
If I had the time to make a GUI framework, this is how I would design it.
OpenTelemetry from 0 to 100
The story of how we adopted OpenTelemetry at NAV (Norway's largest government agency).
"Web components" considered harmful
"Web components" (the term) can be inaccurate, misleading, and yes, harmful.
So, you want to install Caddy
Here are my findings installing the latest version of Caddy on Ubuntu. If you don't know what Caddy is, it's a modern, standalone, single-executable webse...
High Variance Management
How should you manage a team that is trying to achieve results out of the ordinary?
Personal Algorithms - FFSR
Personal Algorithms - FFSR
Middleware doesn't belong in the router
In most server-side web apps/APIs we’ll often use some form of middleware to enhance how our apps work. Typically, this is achieved by registering a special form of request handler upstream of our endpoints. This middleware is assigned to a specific route patt…
Complexity Analysis
Opinion: Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance
Uncompromised encryption is the backbone of cybersecurity. And yet Bill C-26 would allow the federal government to secretly order telcos to undermine that encryption – which would make us more vulnerable to malicious threats
Introducing Kino
Today we're excited to launch Kino, a powerful filmmaking app for beginners and experts alike. As say they say in screenwriting, "Show, Don't tell," so let's walk through a few of the tent-pole features in our huge 1.0 release.
I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business
Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I've sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
F# developer stories: how we've finally fixed a 9-year-old performance issue - .NET Blog
Some bugs carry exciting narratives — attempting to resolve them lets you trace the history of the repository and the community.
Codestral: Hello, World!
Empowering developers and democratising coding with Mistral AI.
A graphical depiction of the steps in building a C++ executable, basics - The Old New Thing
A high-level overview.
Building .NET apps for Linux from any operating system
Unlock the potential of .NET for Linux development with Uno Platform. Learn about .NET support for Linux, building .NET UIs using Uno Platform, and IDE options for cross-platform development. Discover how to create performant applications for Linux using .NET …
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once
A University of Washington team has developed an artificial intelligence system that lets someone wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds to “enroll” them. The...
Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Exercise Caution When Employing ContainsKey() with Dictionary Types
The article highlights the potential performance issues of using ContainsKey() with Dictionary types in Microsoft .NET, advocating for the adoption of TryGetValue() instead. By employing TryGetValu…
GitHub - openkoda/openkoda: Open source business application platform for fast development
Open source business application platform for fast development - openkoda/openkoda
Snake draft sorting in SQL Server, part 4 - Simple Talk
In the previous posts in this series (part 1, part 2, part 3), I described how I have optimized a long-running set of routines by processing databases,
Small Language Models with Phi-3 Cookbook: A Guide
Are you interested in learning about small language models and how they can be used to generate text, images, and more? Look no further than the Phi-3..
A beginner's guide to the Shenandoah garbage collector | Red Hat Developer
Learn about the Shenandoah garbage collector, including basic features, use cases, basic troubleshooting, and more.
re: Secure Drop protocol
I just read this (excellent) introduction to the Secure Drop protocol, meant for journalists to have a way to safely accept anonymous information from source...
VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.10: Debug your extensions with the Diagnostics Explorer - Visual Studio Blog
Discover the power of VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.10! Learn how to enhance your development workflow with custom Visual Studio extensions and plugins. Dive into the latest features and boost your productivity today.
OWASP Dependency Check - Improve update speed
Yesterday I introduced you the OWASP Dependency check tool as a way to scan your projects against known vulnerabilities. I showed how to add...
Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars
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Your API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
Instead of redirecting API calls from HTTP to HTTPS, make the failure visible. Unfortunately, many well-known API providers don't currently do so.