Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security
Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here’s what to know about passkeys.
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite - blag
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2024 - .NET Blog
Let's take a look back at the amazing .NET videos, events, and live streams from 2024!
Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal f...
Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...), and looking at the…
GitHub - lexiforest/curl-impersonate: An active fork of curl-impersonate with more versions and build targets.
An active fork of curl-impersonate with more versions and build targets. - lexiforest/curl-impersonate
C#, Blazor, Web Dev, and your pull requests
Turn your videos into live streams with https://restream.io Fritz is working on an open source application that YOU can get the source code to and follow along. Check out SharpSite https://github.com/FritzAndFriends/SharpSite
Sales, Rejection, And Founding an AI Startup - Interview With Amer Tadayon
Sometimes our original plans don't work out -- but what a masterpiece when our different paths come together for something awesome! I was happy to sit down with Amer Tadayon and discuss his journey leading up to the creation of Lucihub. One of the most impor…
From Pegasus to Predator - The evolution of Commercial Spyware on iOS
My talk explores the trajectory of iOS spyware from the initial discovery of Pegasus in 2016 to the latest cases in 2024. The talk will ...
Writing Safe String Interpolated SQL in .NET
Check out my courses on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com Subscribe to my weekly newsletter: https://nickchapsas.com Become a Patreon and get special perks: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsas Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will show you how…
I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis – Communications of the ACM
Is Big Tech supporting the public good, and if not, what should Big Tech workers do about it?
OpenAI’s Board, Paraphrased: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’
OpenAI is to this decade’s generative-AI revolution what Netscape was to the 1990s’ internet revolution.
Mixbox - Natural Color Mixing Based on Real Pigments
Mixbox is a new blending method for natural color mixing. It produces saturated gradients with hue shifts and natural secondary colors during blending. Yellow and blue make green.
How I run LLMs locally
I document how I run Large Language Models locally.
The Perfect Holiday Cookie
The role of embeddings and rerankers in semantic retrieval.
DialNS - a DNS resolver over the phone
Sometimes asking whether you could is reason enough
Improving RAG Pipelines with Hybrid Search
RAG optimization with Hybrid Search
SaaS adoption’s impact on EBITDA margins | Notes
This is a follow-on from a note on how technological innovations improve EBITDA margins.
PKM Annotation Woes
Update: Zotero 7 was released in 2024 and now solves many problems discussed below including new EPUB/HTML annotation support on all major platforms and web. Annotations are still be accessible within Zotero.
What Ails America – and How to Fix It — Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs | November 23, 2024 | Common Dreams America is a country of undoubted vast strengths—technological, economic, and cultural—yet its government is profoundly failing its own citizens
Where are Mr. Beast's sponsors now?
Mr. Beast is probably the biggest channel on YouTube right now by a lot of metrics. But it wasn't always that way. He, like all YouTubers, started out making small videos from his bedroom playing video games or doing random challenges by himself. And like many…
Why and How I Moved My Blog from Middleman SSG to Astro
Personal Blog from Lautaro Lobo
2024 Recap — Being In the Weird State of a Mid-Sized SaaS
At the end of 2024, it's time to look back at what we've accomplished and what challenges remain.
Quiet Years of Agents
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Why we had a kid
11 reasons in no particular order
Add More Kafkas
I knew from day one that if we didn’t add Rust, Kafka, and Microservice to Clipbox’s architecture, we were f*cked.
How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
What does it take to get promoted from senior to staff at a tech company?
Public companies considered harmful | Bernardo Vecchia Stein
Public companies are incentivised to focus on short-term “shareholder value”, which means that as time goes on, they will most likely enshittify their products and services.
Software Design is Knowledge Building
The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.
A Snapshot of My Self-Hosted Journey in 2024
What started as a simple experiment with Pi-hole in February 2023 spiraled into a full-blown obsession with self-hosting. Almost one year later, around Christmas time in 2023, I wanted to write a recap of my year self-hosting, but things happened and I never g…
Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
A blog by and for database architects.