People often ask me, how am I able to read and share so many articles and videos. I use RSS for more than 16 years since the days of Google Reader and until now I have not found a better way to access the internet. Social network tried but went broke pretty fa…
Why I'm building a Home Lab using Raspberry Pis, Kubernetes and 3D printing.
Numerical code needs to carefully balance accuracy and performance. A new DSL, MegaLibm, makes this easier by checking for numerical correctness and offering flexible compilation to efficient code.…
On escaping the dogma of competition and rethinking the constituents of excellence.
Meet people. Have fun. Save the world.
I recently read a post on Marginal Revolution discussing why we stopped building beautiful buildings. I have a very simple theory that I think explains part of why we stopped building beautiful buildings, and why many other things are much worse than you’d oth…
Glab is an open-source tool that allows you to work with GitLab from the command line, eliminating the need to switch to a browser to create or approve merge requests, start a pipeline run, or view issues. Glab can work with repositories hosted on gitlab.com a…
If you’ve never heard of NIST SP 800-108 before, or NIST Special Publications in general, here’s a quick primer: Special Publications are a type of publication issued by NIST. Specifica…
Chorex is a brand-new Elixir library for choreographic programming [3]: Chorex provides a macro-based DSL that lets you describe how processes communicate to perform a computation. This top-down description of interacting processes is called a choreography. Fr…
Why I decided to research algorithmic trading despite evidence showing how active funds underperform their benchmark indices.
I have a few beliefs. Things that even if they aren’t true, I wish they were and I try to act accordingly.
A proposal for a better Terraform: terraform plan -light. Faster plan times without breaking up state.
There are two types of knowledge: knowledge of ‘that’ and knowledge of ‘how’. The first is called declarative knowledge, which is concerned with facts. The latter is called procedural knowledge, which is concerned with how to perform a task. Knowing what the c…
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
EF Core 8 introduces support for mapping typed arrays of simple values to database columns so the semantics of the mapping can be used in the SQL generated from LINQ queries.
Because that's how many bits were available for reporting the lock count.
Amazonbot, please. It's too much.
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis).
Leetcode-style interviews do not reflect real world software engineering problems.
We would like to thank Kathy Jang, David Wu, Cam Allen, Sam Toyer, Eli Bronstein, Koushik Sen, and Pieter Abbeel for discussions, feedback, and technical support.
Optimize your .NET development workflow with contract testing and Pact. Explore the transformative impact of contract testing on testing cycles, reliability, and integration. Unlock the potential of seamless software development.
Learn how to understand HRESULTs in .NET exceptions. HRESULTs can help debug errors by highlighting error codes not available in the message.
This is continuing a series about multi-tenancy with Marten, Wolverine, and ASP.Net Core: What is it and why do you care? Marten’s “Conjoined” Model Database per Tenant with Marten (this post) In t…
Discover the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator – your key to a smooth, cost-effective local development experience. This guide equips you with everything you need:..
Explore highlights, news, and announcements from Build, and find out what’s new with .NET.
Learn how string interpolation can be used for efficient structured logging in C#, and how to create a custom string interpolation handler to keep argument names and improve performance.
We have redesigned the Visual Studio Resource Explorer! Now you can manage all your localizations from a single unified view.
Let’s explore the concepts of micro-frontends and monorepos, their pros and cons, and how they can work together.
Microsoft announced last month, the .NET Smart Components, an experimental set of AI-powered UI components that can be added to your .NET a...
Beating another dead horse.
In this post, I describe how to create a multi-arch Docker image for a .NET application. The image will be built for x64 and ARM64 architectures.