Join Live: .NET MAUI Community Standup
The topic for this June month’s .NET MAUI community standup is VS Code Updates. Of late, VS Code has incorporated many new features, such as XAML IntelliSense and Hot Reload, as the end of support …
From Scratch - Generative Adversarial Networks
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), discovered by Ian Goodfellow in 2014, were an early method in the area of generative AI. I will focus on image generation as set out in the paper Generative Adversarial Nets1. This paper is the focal point of this blog p…
I used to write
Then I stopped.
Creating Smooth Hover Effects for Menu Icons
It's been a while since I worked with stylesheets. I have always been a software developer focused mostly on backend functionality. Recently, however, I star...
A primer on the next generation of antibodies
what's wrong with antibodies? what are some of the potential fixes? how do they work?
Millisecond Scale-to-Zero with Unikernels
A solution to intermittent and unpredictable traffic.
What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! – life at the end of the universe
The Degradation of the Cinematic Experience
This isn’t one of those rose-colored glasses “back in my day” feelings but a genuine technical explanation of the degradation of the cinematic experience. We focus on the topic of image resolution and the impact that has. Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, some …
PHP in 2024: The Age of Laravel and Rapid SaaS Development
As a freelance Laravel and Vue.js developer in 2024, I can confidently say that there has never been a better time to be a part of the PHP ecosystem, particularly when it comes to rapid SaaS…
Why Chatbots Aren’t Working - Plus
Four reasons chatbots are not the right interface for AI
Architectures for Central Server Collaboration
Matthew Weidner | Jun 4th, 2024 Home | RSS Feed Keywords: rebasing, CRDTs, Operational Transformation
SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
In the last year and half, I thought I could stop the distro-hopping, but very recently it turned out it wasn't the case. Since there are criteria and thoughts about my requirements from an OS that I never put in writing, it's time I do it now. This should als…
Hello Micron GDDR7 - PC Perspective
Hello Micron GDDR7 Micron announced yesterday that they are sampling their first GDDR7 to select customers, heralding the next improvement to hit GPUs and HPC
The Ultimate iOS to GrapheneOS Migration Guide and Review
For years Silicon Valley looked to Apple.
How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution?
Explanatory note: This page grew out of one of my investigations for Open Phil, but then I got fascinated and put a bunch of personal time into elaborating certain parts of it, and it evolved into something that I think is pretty cool, but which would take mor…
In Search of the Lost Web
maraoz's personal website.
Debugger.godMode()
Let's bring back the classic tradition of hacking programs with a debugger
In the Know and Not Alone
How rural individuals are making sense of their health with AI
[en] rabbit r1 it's a SCAM
It’s not new that the promise of artificial intelligence capable of helping us and solving a series of problems we don't have has emerged. However, it is onl...
A New Chapter for Bartender
Surtees Studios
Reading awc :: DON’T PANIC
Arther Whitney, the creator of the k language(s), writes C code in a unique style. Some see it cryptic while others find it elegant. I’ve known his implementation of J, and the word “Incunabulum”, from Dyalog’22. But never had I tried to reason about his works…
How I saved a few dozen dollars by migrating my personal projects from the cloud to a Raspberry Pi
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Nomic Embed Vision: Expanding The Latent Space
Nomic expands the capabilities of Nomic Embed to include vision.
Incremental development
Introducing significant code changes to working software is scary. Many things can go wrong. But there’s a way to making changes safer and easier.
Alice in Wonderland: Simple Tasks Showing Complete Reasoning Breakdown in State-Of-the-Art Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are often described as being instances of foundation models - that is, models that transfer strongly across various tasks and conditions in few-show or zero-shot manner, while exhibiting scaling laws that predict function improveme…
MSTest 3.4 is here with WinUI support and new analyzers! - .NET Blog
MSTest 3.4 is available. Learn all about the highlighted features and fixes that will make your testing experience always better.
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month
5 Jun 2024
The First .NET Aspire Book!
My new book on .NET Aspire is available! It covers creating microservices with .NET, utilizing Azure services as well as on-premises deployment. Each chapter introduces key concepts, tools, and tec…
Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
The breaking tech news this year has been the pervasive spread of "AI" (or rather, statistical modeling based on hidden layer neural networks) into everything. It's the latest hype bubble now that Cryptocurrencies are no longer the freshest sucker-bait in town…
How 16-bit Windows cached INI files for performance - The Old New Thing
Taking advantage of co-operative multitasking.
New Signals Proposal Seeks to Formalize Reactive Programming Primitives in JavaScript
The JavaScript language recently added the Signals proposal (currently in Stage 1) to the list of candidate features striving to improve the language. The Signals proposal seeks to provide common primitives primarily for framework maintainers to implement reac…
Blazor in .NET 9 Takes Shape (Preview 4 Highlights)
.NET 9 is shaping up ahead of its November 2024 release. Here are the highlights for Blazor so far.
Get Hands-On with Visual Studio and Azure: Live at Microsoft HQ this August! - Visual Studio Blog
Join us at Visual Studio LIVE! 2024 from August 5-9 at the Microsoft HQ in Redmond, WA. Dive into 71 sessions and hear from 35 expert speakers, including 20 from Microsoft. Explore innovations in Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub. Network with top developers an…
Automate your .NET SDK updates for consistent and reproducible builds with global.json and Renovate
Get reproducible builds locally, in your CI, and Docker builds with .NET SDK maintenance via global.json and automatic dependency updates.
Encryption At Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?
Security engineer Scott Arciszewski talks through the challenges of building a useful encryption-at-rest system for hosted software. Encryption at rest on a hard drive protects against physical access to the …
Why Do Electronic Components Have Such Odd Values? – Digilent Blog
If you’ve been around electronics for a while, you’ve probably noticed that components like resistors, capacitors, zener diodes, and inductors come in some odd values. Looking at the chart below, there seems to be no clear rationale behind the values, but ther…