As we all know .NET MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms. The underlying architecture transitioned from Renderers to Handlers. The project structure is unified. But for the projects that are getti…
It's done. The first acquisition has been finalized this week! I'm very excited to welcome Pixel (pxl.to) to the Waterglass portfolio. Pixel is a leading short link, QR code and microsite builder for marketers, based in Great Britain (UK). The founder of P…
PHP has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 1995. While it was originally designed as a simple templating language, PHP has evolved into a full-featured…
Lessons from Parcha's Journey automating compliance workflows
[Something I’ve struggled with in my adult life is truly internalizing that I’m exceptionally great at certain niche things and acting on this belief—not just best in my fifth-grade class great, or best in my summer camp great, but actually one of the best in …
random thoughts and posts on tech
When I first started using Emacs I thought it was pretty weird. I had questions like “Why are windows called frames, and tabs called windows?” and “What the hell does C-x C-s mean?“.
I am not a fan of Windows Recall the same way I am not a fan of most AI.
I was catching up with my friend Jeff Ong. He shared the following quote: At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge…
At Toradex we build Torizon OS, which is a container-based embedded system. What do we mean by that? It means that the applications run in isolated environments called containers.
← back ——— Harrison Broadbent, published June 6 2024
David Lattimore - 2024-06-05
My reflections from Local-First Conf and thoughts about the broader movement and IPFS
The initial beta release of the official OpenAI library for .NET is now available.
A map of the roads of ancient Rome, in the style of a transit diagram.
It'll only be Unicode if it's already Unicode.
In the wake of a Microsoft spying controversy, it’s time for an ecosystem perspective
The fundamentals of Akka.NET actor construction and message processing.
Discover what's Prompt Injection and how it illustrates a new technology era, replacing the old SQL Injection
A few weeks ago I posted about the idea of removing the sync APIs from a future version of CSLA .NET. That post included a poll, and this post will summarize the results of that poll.
Using Stateless to build finite state machines in .NET
Yesterday I talked about the Smart Paste UI component which should help to automatically fill out a form using data from the user's clipboar...
Previously in Phi-3-mini in 30 lines of C# with ONNX Runtime GenAI I showed how easy it was to run the Phi-3-mini model locally in just a few lines of C#.
I’m building a small tool (more about it in a later post). What's important to successfully run this tool is that it should be executed with...
The post shows how a PDF can be created from data in an ASP.NET Core backend and downloaded using an API. The data could be loaded from different locations and exported then as a PDF or a docx or w…
Outstanding essay and collection of animated explanations (created using p5.js) by Andrei Ciobanu explaining Fourier transforms, starting with circles, pi, radians and building up from there. I found Fourier stuff …
One of the biggest sticking points of being a solo dev is maintaining motivation. I’ve been keeping a journal entry about how to hack my motivation, what works and what doesn’t. Here are the things that have worked. Convert external sources to moti…