Is This the Ultimate One-Core Workstation? The PDP-11/73 - From Wargames to Zork! Dave takes you on amazing build of a PDP-11/73 featuring a CPU upgrade, math unit, disk controllers, RL02 drives, MFM drives, RX50 floppy drives, a VT220 terminal, and even more DEC hardware! Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinW...
Software is Way Less Performant Today Original video: https://youtu.be/qqUgl6pFx8Q #gamedev #gamedevelopment #caseymuratori
Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR Meta FAIR is releasing new research artifacts that highlight our recent innovations in developing agents, robustness and safety, and architectures that facilitate machine learning.
ChatGPT vs. Advent of Code 2024 Day 14: Restroom Redoubt Will ChatGPT find the restroom as well as the Christmas tree on day 14 of Advent of Code? Let's find out! #openai #chatgpt #python #ai #codeinterpreter #adventofcode Contents: 0:00 - Intro 0:10 - Part 1 0:47 - Part 2 4:55 - Summary
How Do You Test An OAuth Process Without Having To - M.O.W. A post covering: advent, code coverage, csharp, dotnet, mocking, mstest, oauth, test driven development (tdd), testing, tools, unit testing... Hello, and welcome to my blog post for [December 14th of the C# Advent Calendar 2024](https://www.csadvent.chris...
The Vicious Cycle of Helping Other Developers - Principal Software Engineering Manager AMA Why does it seem like the more we're helping other developers the LESS time we have for our own work? Perhaps the answer is found in how you're helping others! In this stream we'll look at two perspectives: - How should junior developers optimize asking...
GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
LangChain vs OpenAI API: When Simplicity Meets Scalability | Aditya Bhattacharya | Blogs Website This blog explores a detailed comparison between the OpenAI API and LangChain, highlighting key differences in performance and developer experience and the low level code for why these differences exist.
Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates The hardest part of advising Ph.D. students is teaching them how to write.
GTD • Ray Wu I got around to building v3 of the Airtable GTD tracker / dashboard template to share. Feel free to make a copy and get started! I run my life on GTD and am a huge advocate for the framework. For the past several years, I’ve recommended it to many... | Ra...
Thoughts dereferenced from the scratchpad noise. Dynamic RAM (DRAM) must be periodically refreshed to maintain its content. If any bit is inadvertently swapped, we can say that the memory doesn’t work as it should. JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council, a body that provides DDR specification,...
Attachment is the Root of All Suffering We all know about the Buddhist philosophy that attachment is the root of all suffering. While this idea is often applied broadly—to relationships, possessions, or desires—I want to explore a very specific type of attachment today: attachment to the self-i...
Implementing a simple object system from scratch in Ruby “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” – Richard Feynman
Inside GIMP 3.0 Discover why GIMP 3.0 is a groundbreaking milestone for open-source image editing. My latest LWN.net article dives into the exciting updates, modern features, and why this release is a game-changer for designers everywhere. Read more: https://lwn.net/Arti...
My take on Web Components Lately, I’ve been trying to learn more JavaScript. I wanted to explore web components. After checking out some frameworks and tools, mainly lit, tonic and facet, I wanted to build my own thing. …
Marketplace Memo #1 - December 15th, 2024 1M Uber rides at the same time, Amazon selling cars, GM slashing Cruise, Service Titan scared of marketplaces and more!
All I want from JSON is whitespace commas Following the recent uptick of JSON-related discussions, here is my opinion on the matter
The Case Against Character Count Line Limit I recently had a discussion with a colleague about whether we should introduce a character count limit per line into our style guide. He believes it enhances readability, while I argue that readability should be facilitated by the editor or IDE, not ...
Remote SSH Access Without Static IP or Domain Name Using Cloudflare Zero Trust: A Step-by-Step Guide During my undergraduate studies, I relied on a gaming laptop for most of my university projects because I needed a powerful CPU and GPU. Carrying it around in my backpack was cumbersome, but at the time, I didn’t see a better option. I couldn’t understand...
Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag | Evan Pratten My life is full of very obscure problems
Displaying Website Content on an E-Ink Display How I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper
Meta says Meta's Llama models are NOT Open Source but Open Weight - Sam Johnston In response to the news that Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft, Yann LeCun's VP & Chief AI Scientist
Dark Mode in Next.js in 5 minutes Simple way of how to add a dark mode to your Next.js app using next-themes and TailwindCSS. If you want to add a dark mode to your Next.js project, but don't wanna waste to much time on thinking or setting it up, this aims to show you how you can set it ...
Windsurf is Better than Cursor My first impressions switching from Cursor to Windsurf, and why I decided to make the switch as a long-time Cursor user.
A high-velocity style of software development Some ideas from my personal style of software development based on exploration, regular code changes and keyboard speed
Internal vs. Public APIs in Modular Monoliths Every article about modular monoliths tells you to use public APIs between modules, but they rarely explain why these APIs exist or how to design them properly. After building several large-scale modular monoliths, I've learned that public APIs are not ju...
Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit Elon Musk’s latest legal filing against OpenAI marks his fourth attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims. However, his own words and actions speak for themselves—in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s propos...