I bought two of the original Loog guitars, little 3-string acoustic guitars intended for new learners and especially children. There’s a lot to like about them: they’re inexpensive, cute, and have surprisingly good sound and volume. The larger one gives a teno…
Using SKIP LOCKED to distribute work across machines in a distributed system is a popular pattern. We explore why, the alternatives, and a real world example from our own codebase.
Exploring the benefits of doing your own blog from scratch
In Spring 2020, during IAP, the MIT Rocket team launched multiple rockets at the FAR site in the Mojave desert in California.
It's time for some #binchat
A swords-and-sorcery programming environment for building and counting mathematical structures
Imagine this: You’re driving down the road when a Very Good Idea springs to mind. You need to capture it quickly without fumbling through screens or
Why Reading https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/ and we're done... we fall firmly into scope, and I have no way to dodge it. The act is too broad, and i…
To make daily updates feel different from one day to the next, I generated a unique color combination for every day of the year.
If you regularly check your website’s analytics, you may have noticed something weird in the past year or two. None of your visitors use Windows 11, and nobody upgraded their computer past macOS 10.15 Catalina. That can’t be right. So what is going on?
It was only a matter of time.
What might essays look like in the age of AI? (🌱 First draft.) In the 1970s, decades before computers began to compete at the highest levels of chess, a new variant of the game was invented, called Advanced Chess. The idea was that instead of a human player c…
Learn practical strategies for innovation, prototyping, and creating data-driven products from AWS experience. Explore the Working Backwards framework and real-world examples of successful prototyping.
OpenTelemetry is not perfect, but the value of having one shared standard for instrumentation and telemetry is huge
In grokking experiments, the unregularized network’s complexity rises and remains high as it memorizes the training data, never generalizing. The regularized network’s complexity similarly rises, but as it groks and generalization occurs, the complexity falls.
You’re at dinner with your friends. The bill arrives. You’ve been there. Everyone got something different, and the restaurant cant split by seat. What do you do? Its simple. Use this app I made.
Time again for a rant adjacent post, on this occasion, about building applications following some domain-driven design ideas.
Discover how to use Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData to implement semantic search using Qdrant and Azure AI Search
Back in 1999, a group of developers lead by Jorge Arellano Cid forked the Gzilla/Armadillo code originally developed by Raph Levien, and began working on what is now known as the Dillo web browser.
Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant. Contribute to XiaoMi/ha_xiaomi_home development by creating an account on GitHub.
In this edition of #tech on ice, I deliver a little #javascript rant. Why is it so hard? I really need to know :) #technology #developer #programming #coldplunge
A new survey suggests that Apple Intelligence matters to iPhone buyers, but the majority say that the initial features add...
Turn your videos into live streams with https://restream.io Fritz is working on adding a plugin system to SharpSite https://github.com/FritzAndFriends/SharpSite
After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.20.
Hi there! Today we are going to see how we can use WireMock with Testcontainers for our Integration Tests. #csharp #dotnet #wiremock
Final part in the series on containerizing IdentityServer, fixing logout challenges, and finalizing the IdentityServer setup.
Fresh outdoor air all year round.
En esta sesión, compartiré mi experiencia desarrollando una herramienta llamada Xamlify, que me permite convertir diseños de Figma en código XAML para .NET MAUI en solo unos segundos, reduciendo el tiempo dedicado a la creación de interfaces gráficas entre un …
Smart TVs are great, but dumb TVs have even more going for them.
Inspirational Mapping. Contribute to anvaka/map-of-github development by creating an account on GitHub.
Simple Steps to Bounce Back
The open source project I work on for the longest time is KDE and there more specific Kate. This means I look at user bug reports for over 20 years now.
Technological advancements have empowered engineers to focus on creativity and strategy. AI will similarly elevate human insight, generating growth and innovation.
On the implications of defining the architecture after you build the product
Building a company in your 40s hits different. Older bootstrapped SaaS founders are evaluating their energy, and reevaluating their priorities.
“Clean code” is so over: all the cool kids are switching to CRISP code . I’ll show you how to achieve it in five catchy, T-shirt-friendly slogans.
When I started learning about loss functions, I could always understand the intuition behind them. For example, the mean squared error (MSE) for regression seemed logical—penalizing large deviations from the ground-truth makes sense. But one thing always bothe…
… or at least more upstream. Recently I tried to migrate our home NAS from our good old (TM) Intel Celeron N3150 to a more modern Radxa Rock 5 ITX. The new board fits perfectly to the needs of our home: Small, enough peripherals for what I need, low-power yet …
Hacking cars through the cloud to steal footage from YOUR car and even track your location! Critical vulnerability found in popular smart car apps. Learn how to protect yourself NOW.
Nuance about AI and the 'danger' of datasets
Inside the mind of Karthik Uppu.
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A discussion of AI and LLM often hits an impenetrable wall: “But it’s just a statistical model, and thus it cannot really …”. The variations of the “stochastic parrot” arguments assert that being trained on a language, LLM can capture only the surface aspects …