Sub-pixel Distance Transform
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
String Matching. Beginning
Andrey Gein / 2024
Fine-tune classifier with ModernBERT in 2025
Modern updated guide on how to fine-tune BERT models for classification tasks in 2025.
Everything I Know About Driving in NYC – Things We Make
It’s Christmas here in New York, my favorite day of the year. It is the one day I get to enjoy the most favorable driving conditions this city has to offer. The streets are mine, and mine alone. Free legal parking as far as the eye can see, paired with zero tr…
My horrible career — Bitfield Consulting
Dev advocate Zack Proser grilled me lightly about my career, and why I haven’t taken any of my own advice. Read the full interview, but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
The Trap of "I am not an Extrovert" | Himanshu Mishra (@OrkoHunter)
Being an extrovert at work and introvert in friendship
Android 16 will include a terminal and full Linux VM support
Android 16 introduces a built-in terminal with support for running a Linux VM with full GUI and GPU acceleration, alongside sysadmin features
ND JavaScript Demo
A demonstration of the proposed application/nd-javascript MIME type
Tailscale LocalAPI
Context I use Tailscale to secure network communication, and I wanted to authenticate users coming from the Tailscale network. The goal was to reproduce the behavior in the golink application. When users come from the Tailscale network, the application should …
Ghostty
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
Most developers know about WebSockets, but Server-Sent Events (SSE) offer a simpler, often overlooked alternative that deserves more attention
Finished Course: iPhone Apps for Complete Beginners with Swift, SwiftUI & iOS17 (PacktPub)
I recently finished the online course ‘iPhone Apps for Complete Beginners with Swift, SwiftUI & iOS17 (PacktPub)’. This course is part of my journey to learn the Swift programming language.
GitHub - blackcandy-org/blackcandy: A self hosted music streaming server
A self hosted music streaming server. Contribute to blackcandy-org/blackcandy development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub - drk1wi/portspoof: Portspoof
Portspoof. Contribute to drk1wi/portspoof development by creating an account on GitHub.
How to Migrate 1 MILLION Database Records in ONE MINUTE!
In this session, I'm going to walk you through an amazing tool I've come across that can help software engineers doing data migration work in a *very* short time. Azure Data Factory is a cloud-native tool that simplifies migration work, data synchronization …
Sun Avoidance
I Thought I Found a Bug…
So I was working on improving a DOS emulator, when I found that something seemingly trivial wasn’t working right when COMMAND.COM was asked to do the following:
Memetic Culture
on human connection
Are you smarter than Phi-2?
Test your intelligence by facing off against Phi-2, a 2.7B parameter large language model (LLM) trained by Microsoft, in a set of 20 questions taken from the MMLU benchmark. Who will come out on top?
12 Life Lessons From A Backgammon Super Grandmaster ⋆ WBGF
World Backgammon Federation News & Events. New York City Backgammon Club organiser Remington Davenport tells her story.
Interview with Niels Dossche
PHP, HTML, the DOM, and living standards
Minimal Version Selection Revisited
In this post, I want to highlight one aspect of Go-style minimal version selection that I have missed completely at first. Maybe you missed it too?
Tech Trends 2025 - scapellato.dev
GenAI, AI Agents, Loneliness, Healthcare...
VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor
VPR (pronounced “Viper”) is Nordic Semiconductor’s first RISC-V processor, landing in the new nRF54H and nRF54L lines of SoCs after their initial announcements in April and October of 2023 respectively. Readers of this blog are familiar with my long-running ob…
The Humble Virtues of a Simple Private Jet
I have often thought that the question of how one ought to live is as perennial as the seasons, and as susceptible to overcomplication as th...
The Downfall of Alternative Frontends
Into CPS, never to return
CPS, or continuation-passing style, is an intermediate representation for programs, particularly functional programs. It’s used in compilers for languages such as SML and Scheme.
Advent of Code analysis through the years – Blog Jesse van Elteren
What can we learn from the stats?
Advent of Papers (2024)
Each day I read and summarize a weird or intersting paper related to computing.
How Much to Give is a Pragmatic Question
I was recently talking to someone who had recently started thinking about effective altruism, and was trying to figure out how to work it into their life. They were established in their career, it paid well, and their background wasn't obviously a good fit for…
Robotics Predictions for 2025
Some predictions for how the robotics landscape looks next year, with varying degrees of confidence.
Fake Debugging II: The Race Condition Strikes Back
Fake Debugging Considered Harmful.