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mjg59 | What the fuck is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
Short version: Secure Boot Advanced Targeting and if that's enough for you you can skip the rest you're welcome.
The role of the activation factory in the Windows Runtime - The Old New Thing
The activation factory represents the class itself.
An unordered list of hidden gems inside NixOS — kokada
After using NixOS for the last 5+ years as my main OS, I end up with a configuration with many things that are interesting for one reason or another, but it is not listed anywhere (well, except if you are the kind of person that reads man 5 configuration.nix o…
Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
Today marks 6 years since Valve decided to change everything, especially for Linux fans, with the announcement of Steam Play Proton. Thanks to it, the Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming have continued to thrive.
🎉 Celebrating 11 Years as a Microsoft MVP: A Journey of Perseverance and Gratitude 🌟
Introduction to the Microsoft MVP Program The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)...
I’m Tired of Fixing Customers’ AI Generated Code
(Not an anti-AI post — Copilot is great, I use it all the time.)
Host Protomaps as static files on Cloudflare Pages for free with Service Workers
This blog post is about experimenting with hosting PMTiles as static assets on Cloudflare Pages. I'm working on a simple pmtiles styling project (pmtiles-styling.pages.dev), and I wanted to be able to host the entire project on Cloudflare Pages (without having…
How To Scale Payment Systems With The Saga Pattern
What a database paper can teach us about scaling payment systems beyond a single relational database
The Easiest Way to Stand Out With Your Work
It's not what you think
Async hazard: mmap is secretly blocking IO
Memory-mapping a file is convenient, but it's a hazard when used with async/await concurrent code: it means a "simple" memory index does blocking IO.
OpenAI Forks GPT-4 into Separate ChatGPT and API Models
OpenAI has split their GPT-4 model into two distinct versions: one optimized for ChatGPT and another for API use. This change was announced on Twitter, where OpenAI stated they now offer in the API…
video to css
Can you convert any video to pure css? Yes, yes you can. And this is how.
Running an LLM on a simple Raspberry Pi
With the current enthusiasm for AI and especially LLM (Large Language Model), I was seduced by the idea of directing one of these models on an unplanned platform for this: a Raspberry Pi.
Quitting My Job For The Way Of Pain — Ludicity
Engineers are not just builders
Some of the things that product owners do can, and should, equally be done by engineers.
Thoughts on coding with LLMs
I’m actually starting to change the fundamental workflow of how I write code.