4 December 2024

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.NET 9 🚀 💥 - Open API Document

In this video we will discuss the replacement of Swagger with OpenApi document Support me on Patreon to access the source code: https://www.patreon.com/mohamadlawand Let us connect: 🌍 My website - https://mohamadlawand.com 📸 Instagram - https://www.inst…

No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4

Near the beginning of November, nixCraft posted this challenge on Mastodon, daring people to take the No NAT November challenge and disable IPv4 for the month, relying only on IPv6:

What’s New in .NET MAUI 9 – Window TitleBar

Window TitleBar is one of the two prominent enhancements in .NET MAUI 9, the recently released major version of the cross-platform App UI framework. The other new feature is HybridWebView, consult …

Don't use MediatR by default on all .NET projects

The .NET ecosystem has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with MediatR becoming almost synonymous with Clean Architecture implementations. This library, designed to implement the mediator pattern, has found its way into countless tutorials, templat…

[Monkey Conf 2024] DrawnUI for .NET MAUI

Getting acquainted with an open source UI rendering engine for .NET MAUI powered by SkiaSharp. By Nick Kovalsky. Become a channel member to enjoy benefits and access more content. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKnuLHRlK_zhrpaTWvNOdMA/join

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Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.

Mastering the Decorator Pattern in ASP .NET Core applications

Unlock the power of the Decorator Pattern in .NET applications! This comprehensive tutorial covers everything you need to know about implementing and leveraging this versatile design pattern. Learn how to enhance object functionality dynamically, properly regi…

The Job Is Not To Build

Startup CTOs or founding developers are the first technical people in the business. It is natural to think your job is to write code and build software. This is backwards. Your first job is not to build software. Your role is to use your technical expertise t…

Recent Trends with Text Embeddings: Decoder-Only LLMs

Introduction Fine-tuned BERT-style bidirectional encoders, such as E5, have long dominated text embedding models, delivering state-of-the-art performance for many sequence-level tasks at an accessible cost. However, currently, many of the top performing models…

I like rocky road

Pseudonymous researcher Gwern had a fascinating interview on the Dwarkesh podcast. He is very optimistic on AGI in the next several years and given that timeline believes that we should only do things in one of three categories: 1. Things we enjoy because we…

Modern Work Fucking Sucks.

It’s Monday morning. The first thing you see (yes, before you see your kids, your partner, even your coffee) is a Slack notification. That Slack notification leads you to a Confluence document, which is supposed to prepare you for the upcoming Zoom meeting. …

ML for related posts on Hugo

After reading the technicalwriting.dev post on embeddings I thought to myself - this seems like something that I can implement quite quickly and would serve as a good starting point for some hands on experience with machine learning. I want to start small, so …

Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM

I recently wanted to experiment with ChromeOS Flex but didn’t want to install it on a physical machine. I also was doing this without a USB key, which complicated things slightly.