16 November 2024

30 links · Saturday

Twitter is the worst global social network—except for all the others

It seems 'bashing Twitter' is the new countercultural trend. I grew up in Spain in the 90s, and many people either don't remember or nostalgically idealize the credibility of traditional media. Like many 90s kids, I discovered role-playing games,

Boy Girl Paradox

The most liked comment answers 1/2, but the user got worn down by others until he recanted and agreed that the answer is 1/3. Many other comments give lengthy explanations as to why the answer is 1/3.

I spent millions building a product with no revenue

For the last decade, I've neglected my personal relationships. I was heads down working on my company, and it always felt like taking time to socialize and talk to others was "not getting any work done". That mindset was... incredibly stupid, and it became obv…

Thoughts on Django’s Core

To tie-in with the upcoming elections for Django's Steering Council, I wanted to think again about Django's Core, let's call it Batteries Included Revisited....

Reverse Engineering a trojan Telegram Clone

Telegram is one of the largest platforms where individuals can commit digital crimes without being noticed, unless someone reports their content. You can easily find related material with a simple search through channels. On channels managed by Iranians, in pa…

e/acc as a Religion

An article by Avid Fayaz about e/acc as a Religion

ByeBye "Expert": Refactoring Prompts

When using AI to generate code, I keep running into the same frustrating problem: it tends to split my code excessively. A single function gets broken into multiple smaller ones, and a single file becomes a collection of scattered files. It seems to believe th…

Next-Gen PDF Interactions with IronPDF, C#, and Blazor!

Dive into the future of PDF management! In this video, we explore how to leverage IronPDF, C#, and Blazor to enable powerful AI-driven interactions with your PDF documents. We'll use .NET Aspire and a new IronPDF container to enable amazing PDF management cap…

Stop Making Me Memorize The Borrow Checker

I started learning Rust about 3 or 4 years ago. I am now knee-deep in several very complex Rust projects that keep slamming into the limitations of the Rust compiler. One of the most common and obnoxious problems is hitting a situation the borrow-checker can’t…

D: Design Specifics 2 (Category Compilation) #09~#18

In Category D: Design Specifics, I talk in-depth about systems and mechanics used in games. There's some occasional crossover with the Planning & Game Design category, but I tend to examine the topics here in greater detail. [Index] 0:00 Opening 0:11 D-09 Map…

Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update

Experience Half-Life 2 all over again, with a brand-new commentary mode, improved graphics and gameplay options, Steam Workshop support, and more. We're also bringing back the art book, and have a new documentary featuring the original development team.

HybridCache in ASP.NET Core - New Caching Library

HybridCache in .NET 9 combines fast in-memory caching with distributed caching, solving common problems like cache stampede while adding features like tag-based invalidation. This guide shows you how to use HybridCache in your applications, from basic setup to…

Maybe Bluesky has “won”

November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to writ…

Boosting WPF Performance - Upcoming Improvements

This talk will focus on performance improvements in WPF DataGrid and other areas in WPF. We will be exploring the work in progress and improvements lined up in WPF for upcoming .NET releases. Join us to learn how to take full advantage of the performance enhan…

How Fidelity uses .NET MAUI for Cross-platform desktop

Kevin and Matthew join us from Fidelity to share their experiences and successes using .NET MAUI to power the next generation of their Active Trader Pro desktop client. We'll get into: Optimizing UI Dispatch for MAUI Applications WebView Pooling and Optimizat…