Mastering RabbitMQ Quorum Queues: Why, When, and How They Differ from Classic Queues
1. Introduction
Android Asset Packs for .NET & .NET MAUI Android Apps - .NET Blog
Introducing a new way to build and deploy Android Asset Packs using .NET for Android and .NET MAUI. If your app has allot of AndroidAsset items this feature will make your life easier.
Review: IFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy
Like many people who solder regularly, I decided years ago to upgrade from a basic iron and invest in a soldering station. My RadioShack digital station has served me well for the better part of 20…
Feeld dating app - Your nudes and data were publicly available
Discover critical Feeld app vulnerabilities from our pentest. See how flaws in security controls expose personal data and learn key fixes.
Konty | Sketch your app ideas without stress
Make hand-drawn style wireframes quickly and easily.
Performance Improvements in .NET 9 - .NET Blog
Take an in-depth tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 9.
# Holy smokes, I just released a MiniGolf game for Palm OS in 2024
This is a follow up to my previous post:
The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here. So far, we’ve enjoyed the contributions of users who are happy to be living on the edge with …
The First HTML LSP That Reports Syntax Errors
The story of how I gained two world-firsts, somehow.
Creating an electromagnet and sound wave learning environment · ./jm
Wed, Sep 11, 2024
The 4 Kinds of Software Engineers you’ll find at a startup
Software engineers are not a monolith. Some don’t even like bouldering.
An easy mnemonic for the number of days in each month
Programmer & *nix aficionado.
Originality Dies When Being Average Is Easier
So much writing is boring now, and juiceless. There used to be a kind of charm to even the worst writing, because it came from someone just as flawed as you. Now, everything is airbrushed and edited so that we no longer see the real face of things. We see a ti…
If Everyone was a Billionaire
We'd have nothing
Fact-Checking Is Killing Us
Moderators fact-check the debate and we’re worse off for it
Un colorante alimentario vuelve transparente la piel de un animal vivo - La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
El titular parece imposible, pero la idea es sencilla. Una jarra de cristal llena de bolitas de hidrogel con el índice de refracción del agua (n = 1.33) es opaca, […]
How to Encourage Community Contributions
Ming and I started ParadeDB a year ago. ParadeDB is an open-source database project that adds BM25 full-text search and fast analytics support to Postgres. We witnessed Postgres users be frustrated...
The disposable web
Paul is a Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google and loves to help make web development easier.
How we verify the correctness of a spreadsheet engine
Discover how property-based testing can ensure software quality in complex systems like spreadsheets. Learn key strategies, including blackbox testing, invariants, and crash testing, to efficiently catch hidden bugs and improve software robustness.
Writing a Home Assistant Core Integration: Part 1
Part 1 of a micro-series of blog posts that outlines my journey toward authoring a Home Assistant Core integration for the Roth Touchline SL heating system. This first post covers the design and build of a Python API client for Roth’s upstream API that control…
Staff engineers exist in a system of patronage
In reality, staff engineers aren’t about ‘company wide’ impact but a system of patronage where managers reward behaviors they value
The LLM honeymoon phase is about to end
It all began because one of the New York Times' professional opinion-havers didn’t like how chatbots were describing him. Of course, his take was not the sharpest: My theory about what happened next — which is supported by conversations I’ve had with research…
The Integration of Hardware, Software and Services
An unpopular opinion that my past self would strongly disagree with, and perhaps my future self might too: The days when we needed to integrate hardware, software, and services are over. Apple has sh
Good software development habits
This post is not advice, it's what's working for me. It's easy to pick up bad habits and hard to create good ones. Writing down what's working for me hel...
What’s in an e-graph?
This post follows from several conversations with CF Bolz-Tereick, Philip Zucker, Chris Fallin, and Max Willsey.
Making a game for my friend's retro console — Nick Girardo
I’ve recently finished work on a small game called “A Very Hard Game.” You can play AVHG here. AVHG is heavily inspired by an old flash game, “World’s Hardest Game”.
How to minimize the cost of context switching
How to minimize the cost of context switching
An ideology-induced bug in Mypy
Mypy is a typechecker for Python. It’s not the official typechecker for Python. There is no official typechecker. But Mypy seems to be the official-est. I use it, and it’s mostly pretty great.