Understanding Timings in Distributed Systems How we combined logging and tracing to make life much easier.
Top 10 Reasons to Have a Board Discover the top ten compelling reasons why establishing a board can significantly boost your company's performance and governance.
Why No One Reads Full Articles Anymore Summarize this articles in 10 bullets point !. ELI5, conclusion of this article in 5 bullets points. This is how we read long articles now. Meanwhile, the writers also use the same prompt technique…
Why don't you move abroad? | Himanshu Mishra (@OrkoHunter) An Indian's answer from the Heart instead of the Mind
Skin in the game: Fixing higher education’s student debt problem » Anand Sanwal Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy and require universities to underwrite loans
Failing at an Elasticsearch ‘full’ phrase match Elasticsearch doesn’t have a straight-forward way to match the ‘full’ field (all the tokens as a phrase).
Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era We are at a major inflection point in our internet journey: transitioning from earning and packaging attention to summarization and automation of content and tasks.
Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine: a high performance caching library The other day, while perusing a tech post, I stumbled upon S3 FIFO, a method claiming to outperform LRU (Least Recently Used) in terms of cache miss ratio. Intriguingly, notable companies like RedPandas, Rising Wave, and Cloudflare have already implemente...
appimaged, where were you all this time? TLDR: There is a daemon appimaged you can install that watches for new AppImage files in /bin and ~/Downloads and automatically installs them.
Thoughts on Bluesky - Can's blog Let’s talk about Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging application that’s currently eating Twitter and Mastodon’s lunch. Or so some say. In …
n times faster than C, Arm edition · Luna’s Blog The other day I read a two-parter blog post by Owen Shepherd, {n} times faster than C. In it, he takes a simple algorithm, and optimizes it as much as he can, dropping down to raw assembly along the way.
Not All Problems Are Great Fits for LLMs | Dylan Huang Many startups are racing to find product-market fit at the intersection of AI
Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance Q: In retrospect, wasn't the decision to trade off programmer efficiency, security, and software reliability in exchange for runtime performance a fundamental mistake?
PET Cemetery: SuperPET Resurrection Dave rescues two rare Commodore SuperPETs. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM For Rudy's Retro Intel and PET Repair: https://www.youtube.com/ @RudysRetroIntel Dave's Attic - Friday 4PM Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@U...
.NET AI Community Standup - Level Up with .NET 9, AI, Aspire and Azure! 🚦 Join Bruno and Emiliano in an exciting session as they upgrade the AI Traffic Cam Jam Analyzer solution to the latest .NET 9. Together, they'll explore the newest AI libraries and supercharge the deployment process using .NET Aspire. From generating a...
Gamedev In-Depth | How I Implement a New Feature Devlog video about "Homegrown", a casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine. A more technical devlog this week, showing step-by-step how I implemented the tree feature in my farming game. Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the g...
What is .NET Aspire? [Pt 1] | .NET Aspire for Beginners In this first session, we will learn about **.NET Aspire**, an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications with .NET. This session covers its key features, including simplified service discovery, configuration, and telemetry, as w...
I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option. The bulk of this blog post still stan...
NET Aspire is a Game Changer In this edition of #tech on ice, I am back from Prague and Update Conference, and I wanted to talk about .NET Aspire, one of the best things to happen to .NET developers in a long time. The productivity boost is just plain awesome! #dotnet #aspnet #techno...
Central Package Management Transitive Pinning I have been using the super nice Central Package Management feature, enabled by the ManagePackageVersionsCentrally property in many of my .NET projects for quite a while. What it allows you is to define the package versions of the NuGet packages you are r...
Reviewing TagzApp Turn your videos into live streams with https://restream.io Let's talk about TagzApp, the application we built to support .NET Conf '24
We are shutting down Ondsel | Ondsel After operating for almost two years, Ondsel has made the difficult decision to cease operations and close down.
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? - The Old New Thing Simplifying the problem to an earlier problem.
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The C# Feature You Didn't Know You Needed Join me in this video as I show you how to implement IFormattable to customize and format your class’s ToString method for more advanced and flexible output. Join my mailing list: https://mdbouk.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/mhdbouk Don’t forget to...
Introducing PowerShell Utility Scripts While organising my Second Brain in Notion, I stumbled across an old idea I had forgotten about:...
A quick look at Telerik controls for .NET MAUI In this video, we explore the controls that Telerik offers for .NET MAUI. https://www.telerik.com/maui-ui Become a channel member to enjoy benefits and access more content. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKnuLHRlK_zhrpaTWvNOdMA/join
How to assert assumptions in code that might not be true? Sometimes we have to make assumptions in our code. For example, that a certain property or variable has a specific value. On top comes, we have a specific idea but we are not 100% sure if they are correct. Let's meet Debug.Assert.
Release v1.0.0-victorialogs · VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics Released at 2024-11-12 This release is identical to v0.42.0. VictoriaLogs gained all the planned features since the initial v0.1.0 release 1.5 years ago, and is ready for production!
Sometimes, asking the right questions is half the job done | Mikołaj Biernat Or how ideas are like hidden treasures.
Being the Third Engineer I was the third engineer hired by my company, not counting our technical co-founder. I like that position, and it seems to play to my strengths. Who is the...
Why Ember is Different: Running Browser Tests in a Browser Ember's default test runner is unusual, and it's for a good reason. We believe that since your app runs in a browser, your tests should run in the browser. To debug a test, you should be able to pause the test and then directly inspect it using the dev to...
Scan on FreeBSD Some time ago I covered how to Print on FreeBSD and I was really surprised that it was not that hard in the end. Recently my wife wanted to scan some logical puzzles … and as it seems we had …
rebeccapurple On the proposal to add the named color rebeccapurple (equivalent to #663399) to the CSS specification.
An appreciation of the “mark all as read” button – Manu Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days. Platforms are doing their absolute best (worst?) to …
Rapid Prototyping with ChatGPT: OAS Pension Calculator Part 1 Discover the initial steps of using ChatGPT to rapidly prototype an OAS pension breakeven calculator. This first part covers the problem definition, business rules, and the creation of core calculations and visualizations, offering insights into the impac...
Glassdb: transactional object storage I was frustrated by the gap between stateless and stateful applications in the cloud. While I could easily spin up a stateless application as a “serverless” function in any major cloud provider and pretty much forget about it, persisting data between requ...