3 February 2025

28 links · Monday

Optimizing with Novel Calendrical Algorithms

I have maintained the time crate for over five years now. In that time, tens of thousands of lines of code have been added, probably just as many removed, and countless more written but never committed. While benchmarks have been present for quite a while, I h…

What fully automated firms will look like

Everyone is sleeping on the *collective* advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ - they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled, and evolved in ways humans simply can't.

Building games with LLMs to help my kid learn math

I used ChatGPT to help my kid learn Left from Right, and now I'm turning LLMs into math teachers. I made this game to help him understand the magnitude of numbers between 0 and 20: Then I made the following game with Claude and its…

My Vision of a Smart Building Operating System

A whole building operating system, built on web technologies, which weaves together every sensor, actuator and human-computer interface in a building into a seamless user experience.

My First Month Selling Commercial Use Software Licenses

I made $901.49 in my first month selling commercial use software licenses. This $901.49 came from 14 customers, 6 of whom purchased monthly license subscriptions and 8 of whom purchased annual license subscriptions. January 2025 sales overview My most popular …

Once a Month

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Best Simple System for Now

You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between ‘perfectionism’ and ‘pragmatism’, but …

Volunteering at NDC London

Read about my experience volunteering at NDC London, meeting great people, and learning a lot at this premier software development conference.

Local LLM Agents with Goose

In this edition of #tech on ice, I talk about how we can use #LLM #Agents locally with Goose, a new #.oss tool from Block Check it out! https://block.github.io/goose/ #AI #developer #programming #coldplunge

Sinevibes (@sinevibes.bsky.social)

What a "nice" way to start a week! Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to "spam and deceptive policies". Which is the biggest WTF moment in our brand's history on social platforms. We have only posted demos of our own original products, never anything …

A quote from Anthropic

While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process. We …

C# 14 and Discriminated Unions with Mads Torgersen

Get our two C# courses for free on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/bundle/from-zero-to-hero-csharp/ Subscribe to my weekly newsletter: https://nickchapsas.com Become a Patreon and get special perks: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsas Hello, everybody. I'm …

Validate that your DI Container can be created in ASP.NET Core

The .NET provided DI container has some means to check if the container can be created. This is useful to ensure that all dependencies can be resolved and that the container is correctly configured. Let's have a quick look.