Apple debuts iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Apple today introduced iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, featuring Apple Intelligence and innovative pro camera features.
ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan's final professional match fails to mention Alex Morgan
Alex Morgan played her final professional soccer match Sunday but you'd never know that from the ESPN Generative AI Services game recap.
Lab-grown diamonds - Works in Progress
Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.
Why GitHub Actually Won
How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
Why is F# code so robust and reliable? - .NET Blog
F# is not just for math and big data, it's a general purpose language that will greatly reduce the amount of bugs in your code.
Visiting Legoland Windsor 2024 - M.O.W.
A post covering: family, lego... My family and I recently visited Legoland Windsor, so I thought I would write up my thoughts about the visit. We went on the very last day of the School Summer Holidays here in the UK (which is not consistent across the countr…
GitHub - damn/core: Experiment - can videogame development be simple?
Experiment - can videogame development be simple? Contribute to damn/core development by creating an account on GitHub.
What's New for OpenAPI with .NET 9
A look at the new Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi package in .NET 9 and comparing it to NSwag and Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.
QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet | Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024
Authors: Xumiao ZhangXumiao ZhangUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Shuowei JinShuowei JinUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Yi HeYi HeUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Ahmad HassanAhmad HassanUniversity of Southern California, Los …
LINQ Joins on multiple columns in Entity Framework
I came across a very annoying "issue" with LINQ joins (left joins) in Entity Framework where the compiler drove me nuts!
Reclaim the Stack Documentation
We spent 7 months building a Kubernetes based platform to replace Heroku for our SaaS product at mynewsdesk.com. The results were a 90% reduction in costs and a 30% improvement in performance. We also significantly improved developer experience with reduced de…
Serving AI From The Basement: 192GB of VRAM Setup
Dedicated LLM server powered by 8x RTX 3090 Graphic Cards, boasting a total of 192GB of VRAM.
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
The FBI is warning the public that cyber criminals are using search engine advertisement services to impersonate brands and direct users to malicious sites that host ransomware and steal login credentials and other financial information.
Refit in .NET: Building Robust API Clients in C#
Discover how Refit simplifies API consumption in .NET applications, turning your HTTP API into a seamless, strongly-typed interface. This comprehensive guide covers everything from basic setup to advanced features, helping you build robust, maintainable API cl…
HTMX, Raku and Pico CSS
This post is kind of part 3, coming off last week’s thrilling episode. I am a simple sole, I want to reduce the cognitive load in my web projects. The general idea is to go back to the halcyo…
Samuel Pass Blog
For the past thirteen months, I've been building a portfolio of trading strategies from start to finish (from research to production trading). I was a researcher, developer, and trader. This job ended just a few days ago, but the search for alpha must live on!…
You're Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever
STAY STUPID FOREVER, BY HERE NOW! OPTION 1 If the people in charge are smart, I want to be stupid. The world is pretty fucked, and it's the supposedly smart people who've largely gotten us here. They are the people in the government, the ones in charge, th…
Top-N queries: fetch only the first N rows
LIMIT, TOP, or FETCH FIRST abort an SQL query after finding a number of rows. Use the right index.
Exploiting CI / CD Pipelines for fun and profit – Razz Security Blog
In today’s world of fast-paced development and continuous integration, security vulnerabilities can be easy to overlook. Recently, I discovered a severe exploit chain, starting from a publicly exposed .git directory, which led to a full server takeover. This b…
Synchronous vs Asynchronous vs Concurrent vs Parallel - What is the difference and why does it matter?
Photo by Edurne Chopeitia on Unsplash We developers like to throw around terms that feel natural to us, but are technical terms that most non-developers don’t use in the same way. This article is aimed at all the poor souls who have to deal with us, e.g. produ…
Minimal cross-platform graphics
Exploring how to use 2D graphics in various desktop operating systems, the old-school way. In this part we learn how to create an empty window under Linux, macOS and Windows.
Are We Living in a Simulation?
I posit that it’s statistically unlikely for an engineer to get a job working on a system that isn’t either imaginary or legacy software. There is no middle ground.
A Bicycle for the Mind – Prologue
“When man created the bicycle, he created a tool that amplified an inherent ability. That’s why I like to compare the personal computer to a bicycle. …it’s a tool that can amplify a certain part of…
Fuzzing picom - yshui --log-level=trace
I don't know if you know this, but X programming is not fun.
GNU/Linux Sandboxing - A Brief Review
An incomplete review of the sandbox solutions on the GNU/Linux operating system.