Can You Get Root With Only a Cigarette Lighter?
By David Buchanan, 7th October 2024
What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 | AppSignal Blog
Let's explore everything that Rails 8 has to offer.
.NET, Kubernetes, and Minikube - Part 2, A Load Balanced Web API Deployment | no dogma blog
In my previous post I showed how to run a single instance of a Web API application in Kubernetes using Minikube. In this post, I will show you how to deploy the same application, but this time there will be 3 instances of the application, with a load balancer …
Recap of Experts Live 2024 in Budapest: Three Days of Cloud, Code, and Connections
In a previous post I wrote why it's important to join events and especially, in this case, Experts...
Interesting links of the week 2024-41
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (September 30, 2024 - October 6, 2024). Enjoy!
AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted!
How a modern AVX instruction shares a similar design with a 1985 blitter chip, by Arnaud Carré
Centralize your packages in .NET with NuGet
A feature that isn't really new but still didn't get my attention until recently is: "Central Package Management". So let's have a look at this in this blog post.
Ted Benson
Google's NotebookLLM is the first AI podcast I'd actually listen to. Give it a web page or document, and it will generate you a podcast about it.
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sq data wrangler
From .NET 6 to .NET 8, my migration experience: Entity Framework Core 8
Introduction We finally migrated our web applications to .NET 8 from .NET 6. (And yes...
~200GB Free Cloud for Your files [ENG 🇬🇧] – Tomasz Dunia Blog
-> Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post
Purity is Great for Collaboration
Personal blog of Marc Coquand.
llamafile for Meltemi: the first LLM for Greek
I have published a HuggingFace repo with llamafile and gguf file format models for Meltemi 7B Instruct v1.5, the first Large Language Model (LLM) for Greek. Meltemi was trained by Athena Research & Innovation Center. You can read about its technical details he…
When LLVM scalable vector meets RISC-V
And a mistery constant called "RVVBitsPerBlock"
How to completely bypass authentication on RushOrderTees
Just don't enter a password lol
Observing | ruiper.es
Beware UserDefaults: a tale of hard to find bugs, and lost data
Excuse the alarmist title, but I think it’s justified, as it’s an issue that’s caused me a ton of pain in both support emails and actually tracking it down, so I want to make others aware of it so they don’t similarly burned. Brief intro For the uninitiated, U…
SVG cursors: everything that you need to know about them
SVG cursor themes is a new feature in Plasma 6.2, which we are really excited about. In this blog post, I would like to provide more background behind what motivated us to add support for them, wha…
Personal reflections on moving from Canada to NYC – Daniel Frank
I’m moving from Canada to New York City this week, and I’m having a mini-existential crisis. There are the personal reasons I feel torn—what if I’m lonely, what if I don’t fit in, what if New York doesn’t magically fix the frustrations I had in Toronto, forcin…
Implementing PCA and Dual PCA on CIFAR-10
This post was adapted from a paper I originally wrote and extended for a school project. The full notebook can be found as a .ipynb file on my GitHub. The post assumes some background knowledge of linear algebra and eigenvalue decomposition. If you don’t have …
Why I Interview Once a Year (Even When I'm Not Job Hunting)
In this blog post, I discuss the benefits of conducting annual job interviews, even when you're not actively job hunting. Regular interviewing helps with market awareness, skill benchmarking, networking, and boosting confidence. It also prepares you for unexpe…
Building a Streaming Service — Varun Chopra
Can one person build a movie and TV streaming platform from scratch? Probably not, but I’m giving it a try—one step at a time.
Accidental Cartesian Products – Return Zero
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tools are widely used in modern web development for their convenience in database interactions. However, they can sometimes lead to unexpected and severe performance issues. One such issue is the generation of queries that resul…
The Magic Kernel
The Magic Kernel
Software That Changed Me
A personal reflection on software. From Google Maps to Excel, here are some programs that have had an impact on my life.
Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency
Introduction When modeling a Postgres database, you probably don’t give much thought to the order of columns in your tables. After all, it seems like the kind of thing that wouldn’t affect storage or performance. But what if I told you that simply reordering y…
WordPress vs. ACF
The WordPress drama has not dried up. Since I wrote last, Matt Mullenweg has done a number of interviews, WP Engine sued Automattic, the structure of the WordPress organization has become clearer, and over 150 employees left Automattic in a buy-out deal. Now i…
Stay in the gap | everything changes
The work is the work.
Effect polymorphism fixes dependency inversion
TL;DR: Local programmer is inconvenienced by error-handling boiler plate, writes uninformed article about experimental programming language features. More at 11.
Social Parasites
We’ve recently witnessed a perfect example of this parasitic behavior. A startup, freshly minted by a once-respected incubator, had the audacity to...