20 October 2024

18 links · Sunday

Discontinuing syncthing-android

Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between har…

How is this Website so fast!?

Breaking down the McMaster Carr website and the techniques they use to make it so dang fast. 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Server Rendered HTML 00:54 - Prefetching HTML 02:02 - CDN Caching 02:36 - Client Caching with Service Worker 03:29 - Preloading Assets 05:33 - C…

QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet

QUIC is expected to be a game-changer in improving web application performance. In this paper, we conduct a systematic examination of QUIC's performance over high-speed networks. We find that over fast Internet, the UDP+QUIC+HTTP/3 stack suffers a data rate re…

Accountability sinks

In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held dire...

Portable typewriter

Writing, for me, is a process ripe for distraction. As William Zinsser said in “On Writing Well”:

Beyond the Wall's Gaze

From that vantage point, I had an unintimidating view of Zuma Rock, and I would go up there to watch the sunset in the evening. On idle days, I whiled away the hours trying to synchronize my heartbeat with the pulsing red light atop a radio mast near our apart…

Are Semantic Layers the treasure map for LLMs?

Semantic layers are not new, they started in 1991, when BusinessObjects patented the semantic layer. It’s a great concept but it hasn’t really taken hold in the enterprise. Now LLMs are generating renewed interest in the semantic layer. Semantic layers really …

Shanghai before the foreigners - Jaap Grolleman

Written: August 2022 — Updated: August 2024 Open any history book or article about Shanghai and you’ll probably read something condescending along the lines of “Shanghai was a backwater fishing village until the foreigners came in the 19th century.” And it evo…

svelte

Cybernetically enhanced web apps. Latest version: 5.0.2, last published: 4 hours ago. Start using svelte in your project by running `npm i svelte`. There are 1639 other projects in the npm registry using svelte.

Should I break rank? • Dylan Fitzgerald

Is it cool if you chat up your boss’ boss’ boss? Likewise, should I grab coffee with the intern even though they’re two or three levels down the ladder? Let’s break it down by org size. Small places: easy and natural At a small org (say, less than 30 people), …

An Introduction to Auctions

Adrian Rivera Cardoso is a researcher and software engineer.

WinUI | Collection Operations Demo | XAML | UWP | WPF | .NET

This is a video just to show a demo app for collection operations like: - Filtering - Sorting - Grouping GitHub: https://github.com/AndrewKeepCoding/CollectionOperationsDemo Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewKeepCodin #winui #winui3 #winappsdk #xam…