Jack’s return home went better than I expected. There’s anxiety with introducing an infant to pets, especially to a pet that hasn’t met a newborn before. We took it in stages, first letting Jack play with Janice, then showing him some fragrant swaddle cloths.
Why is AWS deprecating a bunch of services all of a sudden, and what does it mean for you?
First impressions using Positron for R (and Python!) package development
Risks of Storing Authentication Tokens in Local Storage
Using Elixir Phoenix Liveview to read data from pdfs or html content
programming | probability | writing | physical culture
<p>Navigating modernity can be tough. Luckily philosophers, poets, and great thinkers over the centuries has developed a number of mental shortcuts, in the form of heuristics, razors, guillotines, and other aphorisms.</p>
It would have to be finstem, a simple command-line program I wrote to reduce Finnish words down to their root form. Finnish is a lot like Latin or Russian in that its words often become lumbering behemoths of rewritten consonants, suffixes upon suffixes, and t…
David Kopec's blog.
I built myself a digital typewriter!
This is a follow-up post to my prior one NixOS Option Inspection. Many thanks to @roberth who followed up on my issue and helped explain it. 🙏 If you are using NixOS, you’ve likely encountered the module system. It’s NixOS’s super-power and what makes it incr…
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My history with password managers I’ve used password managers since 2014, starting with LastPass for a year before switching to Dashlane in 2015. Initially, I was a happy Dashlane user, appreciating its many great features. However, over time, I noticed produc…
Zeynep Evecen's personal website
.NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Jaliya Udagedara
A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.
The W3C Technical Architecture Group explains how third-party cookies reduce users’ privacy and why they must be removed from the web. This blog post introduces the latest TAG finding, Third-party cookies must be removed.
Dear AI Companies, instead of sneakily scraping OpenStreetMap.org, how about a tiny $10,000 donation? We'll even throw in a shiny new download link to our entire planet's geo data! Who knew it was that easy? Start here: https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/don…
Discover how Object Calisthenics can revolutionize your coding practices. Learn 9 essential rules to elevate your software craftsmanship and produce cleaner, more maintainable code.
Microsoft's first significant update to .NET Aspire for cloud-native app development addresses the building of container images and the orchestration of Python code among a bevy of new features and enhancements.
There’s been a definite theme lately about increasing the performance and scalability of Marten, as evident (I hope) in my post last week describing new optimization options in Marten 7.25. T…
Introduction Having a way to evaluate the health status of our system has been around since ASP.NET Core 2.2. In a nutshell, the idea is, you register a number of health checks, and you run them all …
In this session, we will guide you through the process of building a large language model (LLM) from scratch, leveraging the power of ASP.NET, ONNX Runtime,..
Announcing the general availability of Metalama 2024.2: class introductions, constructor overriding and introductions, new ready-made INotifyPropertyChanged aspect, WPF aspects, and dozens of smaller improvements.
When I started working with AWS a little over 8 years ago, one of the first things I did was set up a simple web server. Being a "Windows Guy," I created an EC2 instance running Windows Server, installed IIS, put it into a public subnet in the defaul...
You can now leverage Sign CLI for a more secure, modern way to sign your Visual Studio extensions. Signing your VSIX packages improves security, prevents tampering, and builds trust with your users. This integration makes it easier and more convenient to sign …
Does pattern matching increase readability? Is there more complexity because of it?
A data architecture example in C# and ASP.NET.
Learn how to replace IdentityModel with MSAL.NET for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect flows using support for generic OIDC-compliant authorities.
Modern web applications in pure Python
Designing applications for Windows and the Uno Platform can be difficult if you attempt to start from a clean slate and assume that you have to design everything from the ground up. This would require you to design even simple elements like a TextBox and a But…
The repository provides code for running inference with the Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), links for downloading the trained model checkpoints, and example notebooks that show how to use th...
Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike YOLOed a software update to millions of Windows machines. Or as they put it:
Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! Previous status updates: In 2018, My One-person SaaS Side Project Celebrates its Third Birthday In 2021, Healthchecks Turns 6, Status Update Money Healthchecks…
I had my dream job but felt unfulfilled, so here’s what I did
Or how to sleep your way into a better life. (No, not like that.)
Why this stock is absolutely not going to the moon.
I take a blend of digital and hand-written notes. It’s a bit of a hodgepodge, but it’s working. I used to lean heavily into full-digital notes, but I started drifting towards a mixture of digital and hand-written notes. Initially it was complicated, but I thin…
I feel the need, the need for speed.
Most teams waste time, money, and opportunity.
I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life. It made me reflect on how my career has been defined as much in terms of misogyny as technical excellence (I’ve garnered quite a…
A few years ago I bought an Xbox to play Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS), after not so much time I realized that the experience on Xbox is okay to …
How to stay in the Trough of Discontent
how to feel like you are winning in the early days of a startup
Sharing my experience with a pattern I’ve used multiple times to implement flexible network data preloading in large client-side-rendered SPAs.
Over the years I’ve oscillated between reading quite a bit and reading not much at all. Lately I’ve been trying to read a lot more and the book I’m currently reading is called “System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot”. Well while escortin…
Local-first software is a new approach to building applications that prioritize the user experience and data ownership. It's exciting because it simplifies the development process and makes applications more reliable.