Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race
Annotated translation of its CEO's deepest interview
lmno.lol
Wholesome blogs minus the yucky bits of the modern web
darktable 5.0.0 released
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0. To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release…
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
12 Months, 12 Books: My Yearlong Journey to Learn, Grow, and Level Up - Chris Woody Woodruff
As we enter a new year, I’m focusing on personal and professional growth as a developer. The tech industry evolves at breakneck speed, and staying ahead requires more than mastering the latest tools and frameworks. To truly excel, developers must dive deep int…
LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought by Meta AI
Discover how Meta AI’s Chain of Continuous Thought (Coconut) empowers large language models (LLMs) to reason in their own language
Jonot's Blog
The Game Boy Advance is an interesting game console. It has a modern-style CPU (32-bit ARM, lots of registers), but uses an old-fashioned tile based renderer like how the NES did it in the 80s. Don’t get me wrong, since its one of Nintendo’s last tile-based sy…
Farewell 2024, A Look Back
As we say goodbye to 2024, I take a look back at the channel this year, talk about my favorite announcements and highlights, my new Mac mini purchase, and what I'm looking forward to in 2025. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/c…
Stop Mocking Your Database! Use Testcontainers in .NET
Want to master Clean Architecture? Go here: https://bit.ly/3PupkOJ Want to unlock Modular Monoliths? Go here: https://bit.ly/3SXlzSt Join a community of 1000+ .NET developers: https://www.patreon.com/milanjovanovic Learn how to properly set up your database f…
Using C/C++ Native Dependencies in Blazor WASM
In this article let's learn how to use C/C++ native dependencies in Blazor WASM app. All with live working demo.
Orbit by Mozilla
Dear Orbit User,
Intro
A UEFI application for dumping the contents of RAM.
Adding AI to an Uno Platform Application using AI Dev Gallery - Nick's .NET Travels
In my previous post I introduced the AI Dev Gallery that Microsoft has been working on, as a way of creating a Windows application that can use AI. In my post I exported the code for object detection, which uses the Faster RCNN 10 model. In this post, we’re go…
Getting gpt-4o-mini to perform like gpt-4o
Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation
If I Could Wave a Magic Wand – Wilsons Blog
We often talk about rewriting code and almost as often talk about whether big rewrites are even a good idea. Joel Spolsky writes a particularly harrowing story of how netscape rewrote their entire codebase and in so doing perhaps doomed their chances of recove…
A Pixel Parable
An imagined town is at least as real as an actual town.
Why I chose SolidJS to rewrite my app
This article goes over the reasons why I rewrote, technical decisions, and the future of Flowtide.
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18
Published: December 30, 2024
Note Taking - Byte Tank
4 years, 1820 pages, 13 A5 notebooks. The process behind it.
TDD and the Zero-Defects Myth
TDD can’t guarantee zero-defects. Let us debunk this software development myth.
52 Things I Learned in 2024 - Kent Hendricks
Here are some of the most interesting things I learned this year.
A Gentle Introduction to Using a Vector Database | Steve Kinney
In which we learn how to build a simple vector database using Pinecone and OpenAI embeddings, and discover it was way easier than we might have expected.
Your PR Previews Don't Need Vercel: My solution on a $5 VPS using Cloudflare and Github Actions
Pert's personal site
Sparse Distributed Representations
Another place for thought infusion
Izvir – The Meaningful Social Media
A post on Izvir by the-source
Part-1: Phone In A Box Series | Anoop's Blog
Tales from my attempts to access an android phone remotely
AoC was a Great Opportunity to Learn Emacs
Tackling AoC with Emacs Lisp.
An honest review of my last year building Chessbook
With the year coming to an end, I’ve been reflecting on what has gone well and what can be improved. Naturally, this being the first year I’ve been full-time on my own project, a lot of that reflection has centered around Chessbook. So here’s my relatively unf…
Mark All as Read
Folks wrung their hands a lot this year about reading. "No one buys books," Elle Griffin argued this spring, although apparently Bible sales are surging, as – according to The Washington Times at least, "Gen Z is sick and tired of predecessors' self-centered g…
The web is too big, or scaling down
I started writing this post in October, when . I got distracted by the professoring business, and didn't finish it until now. It's not quite so salient (and,...
Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 4
In the previous post, we established that as long as ruby/json wasn’t competitive on micro-benchmarks, public perception wouldn’t change. Since what made ruby/json appear so bad on micro-benchmarks was its setup cost, we had to find ways to reduce it further.
Organizations are distributed systems
The assertion that “corporate organizations are distributed systems” hovers between being a tautology—since it is literally true—and a hot...