15 July 2024

13 links · Monday

SCALE documentation

SCALE is a GPGPU programming toolkit that allows CUDA applications to be natively compiled for AMD GPUs.

How To Know When It's Time To Go

I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at which they

How not to benchmark!

I came across a recent LinkedIn post about the let statement in LINQ and it's performance implication. And in typically influencer fashion it out right claimed that using let in LINQ is a bad idea and should be avoided. But is it a bad idea?

"Very Bad Idea" prototype v0.1

One day, a couple years ago, Jeremy had a Very Bad Idea... A wearable keyboard for on-stage presentations. Here is the prototype in action...

Create a Windows Hello login app - Windows apps

This is the first part of a complete walkthrough on how to create a packaged Windows app that uses Windows Hello as an alternative to traditional username and password authentication systems.

Git–Dubious ownership

Today I had a strange Git error message I never got before. When I tried to execute any action on a local Git repo, it fails with the follow...

Local AI on Windows: Explaining the Audio Editor app sample 

Building Windows apps that leverage on-device AI models can seem like a daunting task - there's a lot of work that goes into defining your use case, choosing and tuning the right models, and refining the logic surrounding the models. While there's n