27 November 2024

30 links · Wednesday

Microsoft Ignite Announcements

In this edition of #tech on ice, I go over the #microsoft #ignite announcements and the ones that might be interesting for developers. #technology #programming #developer #coldplunge

The Fix For Your Database Performance Issues in .NET

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The weird BLE-Lock

tl;dr; My knowledge in Bluetooth LE Communication got quite rusty over time and i wanted to refresh it with an easy target the other day. I wanted to open up the lock with a simple bluetooth command but ended up having access to their entire backend database w…

Assembly - minichord

Please note that depending on the kit version, you may not have to follow all the steps:

Nested monads

You can stack some monads in such a way that the composition is also a monad.

One Page Websites Make Me Distrust Companies

I have this weird reaction to one-page websites. From a technical and design perspective, they make perfect sense. The navigation is straightforward – just click a link in the header and it smoothly…

Functional programming self-affirmations

Dmitrii Kovanikov writes posts about enterprise software development and functional programming, both entertaining and serious. I never used a functional programming language (such as Haskell or OCaml) at work, but several ideas from functional programming hav…

A Vanity VNC server (or Joke over RFB) - ache

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Calculating GPT-2’s Inference Speedups

I was recently re-reading on transformer inference optimizations, and I wanted to try to implement each of these techniques to see how much we could practic...

Rails is better low code than low code

“We need a very simple CRUD app for managing the reservations.” They1 said. “Don’t spend too much time on it.” They added. They are the stakeholders or the boss or maybe yourself. Whoever is asking for this application. ↩

Client Freedom

On the decline of open protocols.