Watching sunsets
Aug 18, 2024
Just use Postgres
by: Ethan McCue
GitHub - rfinnie/blockbuster: Blockbuster Video VHS insert template
Blockbuster Video VHS insert template. Contribute to rfinnie/blockbuster development by creating an account on GitHub.
Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
Microsoft stands out from the authenticator crowd by annihilating accounts when new accounts are introduced via QR code. Despite user complaints for years, no fix has been issued, leaving IT experts wondering, ‘Why would you pick Microsoft?’
The Vital Role of QA: Why Independent Testing is Essential for Software Integrity
In the world of real estate, rigorous inspections are essential for a safe and functional home. Similarly, in software development, Quality Assurance (QA) plays a crucial role in testing software f…
Software development is hard - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
For the past few weeks I've been thinking about how hard it is to develop software.
This week in KDE: System Settings modernization and Wayland color management
Many folks are on vacation right now, but KDE’s tireless contributors still worked hard to bring you a number of improvements anyway, among them some nice System Settings modernization work a…
Why Solve Puzzles in Minutes When You Can Code a Solution in Days?
A deep dive into solving Railbound puzzles programmatically using a brute-force approach and optimizing it with branch and bound.
When Numbers Are Bits: Distributed Representations for Sets
According to the superposition hypothesis, vectors of activations inside a neural network are best viewed as superpositions of "feature vectors"—directions in activation space with specific, interpretable meanings. This hypothesis is related to the classic con…
Should I Close Source my Company? Replying to Supabase | Ben Butterworth
I was reading Supabase's 'Should I Open Source my Company?', and wanted to add some nuance which might be useful for certain companies and industries.
The sentinel toothpaste: a useful programming technique for everyday life
Here’s one programming technique that I found very useful in daily life: the sentinel value. I use it pretty much every day – to manage toothpaste. In programming, a sentinel value is a simple way to keep track of the end of a list of items. Lets say you have …
Hologrammata - Gravity, entropy, and life.
Cosmology, or at least basic cosmology, models the world as perfectly homogeneous and isotropic. Everything in the study of the evolution of the Universe actually works out fine if this is at least true at all times on the largest scales, and observations conf…
Subtitle Shenanigans in SwiftUI’s Menu — featherless software design
Published: Aug 16, 2024
You can't own a pen | Attainable Felicity
Matt Kirkland is a designer. He probably reads too much.
Workspace navigation with tmux+fzf
A brief overview of my workspace management flow
Benchmarking OpenAI LLMs for JSON Generation
A quick experiment to benchmark OpenAI LLMs for JSON generation and analyze the results focusing on error rates, performance and costs.