Enhancements in .NET MAUI All-in-One Project Templates 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…
The First Acquisition: Pixel 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...
A look at modern PHP 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…
Yes, you too, reader, should believe you may be world-class – Daniel Frank [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 bes...
What Emacs got right, or how I wish modern apps were more like a 50 year old text editor 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?“.
Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable I am not a fan of Windows Recall the same way I am not a fan of most AI.
Enough 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…
How does hardware acceleration work with containers? 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.
Goodbye Netlify, Hello Cloudflare. · Harrison Broadbent ← back ——— Harrison Broadbent, published June 6 2024
Reflections from Local-First Conf - Daniel Norman My reflections from Local-First Conf and thoughts about the broader movement and IPFS
Announcing the official OpenAI library for .NET - .NET Blog The initial beta release of the official OpenAI library for .NET is now available.
Can INI files be Unicode? Yes, they can, but it has to be your idea - The Old New Thing It'll only be Unicode if it's already Unicode.
How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing In the wake of a Microsoft spying controversy, it’s time for an ecosystem perspective
How Akka.NET Actors Process Messages The fundamentals of Akka.NET actor construction and message processing.
The signs of a new era: Prompt Injection - Simple Talk Discover what's Prompt Injection and how it illustrates a new technology era, replacing the old SQL Injection
CSLA Sync API Poll Results 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.
State Machines, Light Switches, and Space Travel with Stateless and .NET 8 Using Stateless to build finite state machines in .NET
Debugging the Smart Paste UI component 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...
Phi-3-vision in 50 lines of C# with ONNX Runtime GenAI 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#.
.NET Core–Check if console app is running with administrative privileges 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...
Creating and downloading a PDF or DOCX in ASP.NET Core 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…
An animated introduction to Fourier Series 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 …
Managing My Motivation, as a Solo Dev 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...