17 September 2024

18 links · Tuesday

JavaScript™

Oracle, it's time to free the JavaScript trademark. Join us in asking Oracle to release the trademark, and helping us file a Petition for Trademark Cancellation with the USPTO.

Void

Void is an open source Cursor alternative. Full privacy. Fully-featured.

🚀 TrueForAll in C# 🚀

We often encounter scenarios where we need to check if all elements in a collection meet a specific...

Evolving Existing Code through TDD: A Password Case Study

In Week 4 of our Summer Craft Book, which Yann Courtel and I created, we focus on Test-Driven Development with the exercise below. The Initial Challenge In this exercise, our task was to create a program that validates a password following Test-Driven Devel…

The HTTP QUERY Method

This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.

How I Lie to You

You may have noticed that I relay many stories about clients, and it’s amusing how many people react with what-looks-like earnest alarm upon encountering this.

Fine-tuning YOLO for Custom Object Detection

A step-by-step guide to fine-tuning YOLO for custom object detection, including data generation, labeling, and training on a MacBook.

Remote Book Scanning with 1DollarScan and Optimizing Scanned PDFs

Last month, I got interested in a textbook recommended by an online open course I happened to find. However, it’s quite old and not easily available for international shipping. Plus, since it’s a reader meant to be read non-sequentially and piecemeal, carrying…

You have 10 seconds to nixify your .Net project

Figure 1: Don “The Gun” Syme, now officially part of the “Nix Gang”. While this is a click bait title (maybe I’ve also farmed some zoomer credits out the OC), I’m pretty sure that’s how Don Syme feels when looks at a Result type like Result<'T,string> in an F#…