Links for the day (2024/06/13)

Print Your Photos: storage volatility, the impermanence of the cloud, & life after death💀

Introduction I take a lot of pictures, and I mean a lottt of pictures. If you’ve read my past blog posts you’d know that. I want to be able to remember such a critical part of my life. I want to be remembered. And I want to capture these memories in as mu...

The GIMP name controversy, explained

GIMP was named after a character in Pulp Fiction. More than 20 years later, the name remains controversial and could be holding back the project.

5 Archetypes of Knowledge-Intensive Applications -

I write about ML and software engineering

Optimal SQLite settings for Django

Requires: Django >= 5.1a1 (currently in alpha)Last updated: 2024-06-12 There’s plenty of information out there on how to scale Django to handle numerous requests per second, but most of it…

LLM Prompting for Software Development - Mykel Nahorniak

Mykel Nahorniak's personal website

Indian Startup 3D Prints Rocket Engine in Just 72 Hours

Agnikul’s successful launch is a step toward “on-demand” rocket launches

Using PostgreSQL with .NET and Entra ID - .NET Blog

Getting started with .NET and PostgreSQL, and using Entra ID to secure your app.

Lock-free reference-counting a TLS slot using atomics, part 2 - The Old New Thing

Getting it is easy. Getting rid of it is hard.

iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm

AMD’s MI300X Outperforms NVIDIA’s H100 for LLM Inference

Discover if AMD's MI300X accelerator can outperform NVIDIA's H100 in real-world AI workloads. Early results are in!

Mark Oliver's World

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

A Blog post by Maxime Labonne on Hugging Face

My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust

Last year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I …

Absolute positioning with CSS grid

Overlapping elements with CSS grid is incredibly handy!

Comparing Unit Testable Code with Maintainable Code

Writing maintainable code should be a goal in most software engineering projects. Although definitions and especially hard measurements of what maintainable means with regard to software may vary, it can be useful to compare maintainable code to the much ...

Build AI Applications with ease using Semantic Kernel and .NET Aspire | Semantic Kernel

Hello, everyone! Today, we are featuring a guest author from another team at Microsoft on our blog. Today’s topic will explore how we can build AI applications with ease using the Semantic Kernel and .NET Aspire. So, if you’re excited about creating intel...

Catch up on the latest Git tooling features in 17.10 GA - Visual Studio Blog

The Visual Studio Version Control team has delivered new features in 17.10 GA, streamlining your inner loop and code review experiences.

Blazor Basics: Blazor Render Modes in .NET 8

Learn about the new render modes in .NET 8, including ServerInteractivity, WebAssemblyInteractivity, AutoInteractivity and static server-side rendering (SSR).

Keeping your AI out of trouble

One thing is true for most AI Applications - it's easy to get yourself in trouble if you're not careful. In this guide, you will find common..

TypeScript 5.5 Adds ECMAScript Set Support

Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more.

Simpler encapsulation with immutability

A worked example.

Weak Events in C# - Code Maze

Weak events in C# are used to prevent memory leaks in event-driven applications. Let's explore weak events and how to implement them.

Japan enacts law to curb Apple, Google's app dominance

Japan's parliament enacts a law to promote competition in smartphone app stores by restricting tech giants Apple Inc. and Google LLC from limiting third-party companies from selling and operating apps on their platforms.

Broken Model

Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob. Please

Correction: Throughout this article, I attribute Chapter 2 of Clean Code to Robert Martin, however I was recently informed that this particular chapter was actually authored by Tim Ottinger. That s…

the Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi algorithm explained as simply as possible

The GJK algorithm is a weird way to do a simple thing.

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