CSS Flexbox Playground
Interactive tool to learn and experiment with CSS Flexbox properties in real-time
Improved performance and publishing - Gleam
The Gleam programming language
How Network Address Translator (NAT) works | Tailscale
Learn how Tailscale can get through Network Address Translators (NAT) and securely connect your devices directly to each other.
Taking AI Dev Gallery Code Cross Platform with Uno Platform - iOS - Nick's .NET Travels
Following my previous posts that introduced the AI Dev Gallery, added AI code to an Uno Platform application and adjusting the AI code to work with Android, in this post we’re going to look at the adjustments required to get the AI code to work on iOS. The iss…
Decoding IP Addressing and Subnetting – The Backbone of Networking - Chris Woody Woodruff
In today's hyper-connected world, where everything from your smartphone to your coffee machine can be online, understanding networking is no longer just for IT pros. At the heart of all this connectivity lies IP addressing and subnetting—the unsung heroes of t…
The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer
A messy experiment that changed how we think about AI code analysis Last week, I watched our AI choke on a React codebase - again. As timeout errors flooded my terminal, something clicked. We’d been teaching AI to read code like a fresh bootcamp grad, not a se…
Making the Matrix Screensaver in C on a PDP-11/83
Dave shows you how to create the famous Matrix screensaver in pure C on a PDP-11/83 running 211BSD UNIX! Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Watch ShopTalk Now on Dave's Attic: https://youtu.be/5Emgx0lhllE Follow me on X: https:/…
No more needles! Tracking blood sugar on your wrist | Waterloo News
Imagine shrinking satellite technology that predicts the weather into a device that transmits vital information about the health of the person wearing it. University of Waterloo engineers have achieved this technological feat to help people faced with chronic …
Docker on MacOS is still slow?
TLDR Link to heading Two years after my first analysis of Docker performance on MacOS, things have improved significantly. VirtIOFS is now much faster (bind mounts are only 3x slower instead of 5-6x), and we have new solutions in the ecosystem. Lima (open-sour…
Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here
I've been thinking about things that annoy me about other web pages. Safari recently gained the ability to "hide distracting items" and I've been having great fun telling various idiot web "designers" to stuff it. Reclaiming a simple experience free of wi…
How to redirect across repository websites with Github Pages
In this post, I will walk you through how to set up redirects across Github Pages websites with a straightforward approach.
The Proven Path to Creating Unique and Meaningful Work
This one mantra will help you uncover your creativity and do work that matters.
Sailboat Metaphor - Scott Barry Kaufman
Chances are you’re familiar with Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a pyramid with self-actualization depicted at the top. You likely learned about it
Leave Me Alone.
I'm almost embarrassed to say how important LinkedIn is to my business. My network is large though not vaynerchukian. It's taken a good amou...
What LLMs mean for EBITDA margins | Notes
This is a follow-on from a note on how adopting SaaS impacted industry’s EBITDA margins.
msmetko's blog
Sampling a sample from a distribution appears in a lot of places in natural sciences, but lately it’s mostly been used to power LLMs, due to how the Transformer architecture works internally. This blogpost will talk about how to efficiently sample from a categ…
Hello the Last Day of 2024, Let's See What We Achieved This Past Year!
This article summarizes the 2024 year of the blog 2coffee.dev, where the author shared notable achievements and statistics throughout the year.
Fine Tuning the Erlang Virtual Machine · Anantha Kumaran
In my previous post, I discussed how to identify the causes of high CPU usage. In this post, I’ll focus on addressing system bottlenecks. Our production workload runs on 16-core machines, yet the CPU usage has never exceeded 70%. In other words, the system eff…
A Better Way to Stand Out in the Job Hunt
Learn how Loom videos helped me land top roles in finance and fintech. My tips on video introductions will help you stand out, connect with hiring managers, and transform your job search.
Trade Ideas’ Missed Opportunity
Trade Ideas offers a powerful tool for retail traders, but its focus on the wrong audience has led to high churn and unnecessary feature development.
Is social media dead?
Social media once carried a promise. It would bring us closer, enrich our relationships, and create a world of authentic connection. We bought into it wholeh...
Exploring Identities in the AT Protocol via Bluesky
The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized network for building social applications. Bluesky, a relatively new social network, is built on top of the AT Protocol. It recently piqued my interest as I came across this fascinating research paper Bluesky and the AT…
Geometric Intuition for Jensen’s Inequality – Madiyar's Page
Jensen’s inequality is fundamental in many fields, including machine learning and statistics. For example, it is useful in the diffusion models paper for understanding the variational lower bound. In this post, I will give a simple geometric intuition for Jens…
Do it in jeans first
It was six months after my trek through the cloud forests of Peru when I learned I'm not supposed to hike in jeans. At least it's what I was told, on a different mountain range and continent, by a Seattleite guide who volunteered to lead a group of hikers aro…
The Path to StyleGan2 - The Finale
This post concludes The Path to StyleGan2 series and will see us implement the StyleGAN2 model (there is a StyleGAN3 but I will not cover it, for now).
Passkeys are incompatible with open-source software (was: “Passkey marketing is lying to you”) – Smoking on a Bike
Update: After reading more of the spec authors’ comments on open-source Passkey implementations, I cannot support this tech. In addition to what I covered at the bottom of this blog post, I found more instances where the spec authors have expressed positions t…
Weak references and garbage collectors
From 2018 to 2021, I worked on a greenfield Python runtime called Skybison. One of its major differences from CPython was that it used a moving garbage collector (GC). This I understood in theory—I knew that it ran when the heap filled up, knew we needed handl…
Drug Dilution
Caffeine and alcohol are the most commonly consumed psychoactive drugs in the world. They are most often consumed as beverages, which has a few benefits: dos...
The State of Generative Models
In the face of disruptive technologies, moats created by closed source are temporary.Even OpenAI’s closed source approach can’t prevent others from catching up.So we anchor our value in our team — our colleagues grow through this process,accumulate know-how, a…
How to Make Your Personal Computer Reproducible − Lukas Convent
Published on January 5, 2025.
How Websockets are Scaled
When a client initiates a Websocket connection, it sends an HTTP request with the `Upgrade` header set to `websocket`, signaling its intent to establish the connection. Once the TCP connection is established, each request must be routed to the correct server, …
A Tale of Tokenizer Bias
A Tale of Tokenizer Bias
How to use distributed shared memory in CUDA for inter-thread-block communication
tl;dr how to share local memory across thread-blocks on the new Hopper architecture possibly big deal for performance (no-more going to global for inter-thread-block comms.) a super-basic demo on how to get started with it Intro I noticed there is very…
Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 5
In the previous post, we showed how we eliminated two malloc/free pairs of calls when generating small JSON documents, and how that put us ahead of Oj when reusing the JSON::State object.