Loog Piano: My review 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...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SKIP LOCKED in PostgreSQL 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.
Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips In Spring 2020, during IAP, the MIT Rocket team launched multiple rockets at the FAR site in the Mojave desert in California.
An invitation into Droste's Lair A swords-and-sorcery programming environment for building and counting mathematical structures
‘Dictate a Note’ is my new favorite shortcut (and that’s saying something) 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
LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) 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, ...
A color for every day To make daily updates feel different from one day to the next, I generated a unique color combination for every day of the year.
The problem with User-Agent strings – Hello my name is Niels Leenheer 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?
Advanced Essay 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 pla...
The power of prototyping 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.
On OpenTelemetry and the value of Standards | Jeremy Morrell OpenTelemetry is not perfect, but the value of having one shared standard for instrumentation and telemetry is huge
The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking 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 f...
The Right Way to Split a Bill – betterchurn.com 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.
Care about the domain, not about implementing all the patterns and principles under the sun Time again for a rant adjacent post, on this occasion, about building applications following some domain-driven design ideas.
Exploring Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData with Qdrant and Azure AI Search - .NET Blog Discover how to use Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData to implement semantic search using Qdrant and Azure AI Search
25 years of Dillo 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.
GitHub - XiaoMi/ha_xiaomi_home: Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant. Contribute to XiaoMi/ha_xiaomi_home development by creating an account on GitHub.
Javascript Rant 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
Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far A new survey suggests that Apple Intelligence matters to iPhone buyers, but the majority say that the initial features add...
C#, Web Dev, Accessibility and reviewing YOUR contributions! 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
Alexxcon's Software Development Blog After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.20.
WireMock With Testcontainers Hi there! Today we are going to see how we can use WireMock with Testcontainers for our Integration Tests. #csharp #dotnet #wiremock
IdentityServer In Docker Containers – Handle Logout (Part 4) Final part in the series on containerizing IdentityServer, fixing logout challenges, and finalizing the IdentityServer setup.
[Monkey Conf 2024] De Figma a .NET MAUI: Transforma tus diseños en código XAML en segundos 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 entr...
GitHub - anvaka/map-of-github: Inspirational Mapping Inspirational Mapping. Contribute to anvaka/map-of-github development by creating an account on GitHub.
Over 20 years of bug squashing 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.
We’ve Been Here Before Technological advancements have empowered engineers to focus on creativity and strategy. AI will similarly elevate human insight, generating growth and innovation.
Post-Architecture: An Open Approach to Software Engineering On the implications of defining the architecture after you build the product
What's happening with founders over 40 Building a company in your 40s hits different. Older bootstrapped SaaS founders are evaluating their energy, and reevaluating their priorities.
Don't write clean code, write CRISP code — Bitfield Consulting “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.
Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Loss Functions 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 ...
ARM needs to become more mainstream … 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...
Hacking Car Cameras Through The Cloud 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.
Can LLMs actually represent meaning? / Getting over the impenetrable wall 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 asp...