Forcing AI on devs is a bad idea that's going to happen
We’ve still got time to make it better before it does
Introducing Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, AI models designed for robots to understand, act and react to the physical world.
Introducing Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, AI models designed for robots to understand, act and react to the physical world.
Breaking Down HTTP: What Really Happens in a Request and Response - Chris Woody Woodruff
When you visit a website, stream a video, or send a form, your browser and a server are having a conversation. But what are they actually saying? Every interaction on the web boils down to HTTP requests and responses, which work together like a question-and-an…
How can I access third-party native libraries like Firebase in my .NET MAUI apps?
Want to use native libraries in your .NET MAUI apps? It’s easier than you think. Rachel Kang shares how with Native Library Interop, you can create bindings to directly leverage any native library in your C# apps. Learn more here: https://msft.it/6057qPBBB …
Off By One
Hello HybridCache! Streamlining Cache Management for ASP.NET Core Applications - .NET Blog
HybridCache is now GA, use today
GitHub - kern/filepizza: :pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser
:pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser - kern/filepizza
The DuckDB Local UI
The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a built-in local UI for DuckDB.
What Makes a Senior Software Engineer Resume Stand Out?
A senior software engineer sent in their resume to be reviewed but... does it make the cut? Let's see what they nailed and what areas they could improve on their resume. ---- Want a chance to have your resume reviewed? Submit it to resumes [at] devleader [dot…
Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code
Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …
When to Use Classes and Structs in .NET
Check out 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 talk about Structs and Cla…
The Future is Niri
The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two...
AI App Builders – Re-take – TempoLabs - Nick's .NET Travels
In my previous attempt with TempoLabs I was able to successfully build the ABN lookup scenario that I’d been testing with other app builders. I was prompted to take another look and I was even more impressed this time around. In order to do a comparison with m…
Startup-CTO-Handbook/StartupCTOHandbook.md at main · ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams - ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
Certificate Apocalypse: Bringing Your Chromecast Back from the Dead
Learn how to fix your Chromecast 2 that stopped working on March 9, 2025 due to an expired certificate. Simple workarounds for both regular and factory-reset devices until Google releases an official solution.
Why do LLMs fail to count letters in a word?
Why do LLMs fail to count letters in a word? Here's an easy way to understand. But let's NOT do the famous
5% in EU Innovation Funding Yields a 4,300% ROI
Some observations from a report on 'Startups backed by the EU’s Framework Programmes', recently released by dealroom.co, dealflow.eu, and EU Startups: While only 5% of the EU innovation funding (about €12B) goes directly to startups, these same startups have …
Extrinsic termination proofs for well-founded recursion in Lean – Blog – Joachim Breitner's Homepage
A few months ago I explained that one reason why this blog has become more quiet is that all my work on Lean is covered elsewhere.
Why Every Programming Language Sucks at Error Handling - Part 1
Proper error handling is hard. It's a concept since the inception of programming, yet solutions we have are hardly satisfying. When one tries to add proper error handling into their code it gets much more complicated than just implementing the happy path. Part…
Engineering reasoning LLMs: Notes and Observations
Engineering reasoning LLMs: Notes and Observations
The Staff+ Performance Cliff
When Staff+ engineers transition from a team lead to an org-level lead, the increased ambiguity often leads to feeling lost and overwhelmed. This article explores the "Performance Cliff" phenomenon and offers practical strategies to adapt, stay organized, and …
Deep Research Topics for the Rest of Us | Engin Arslan
Engin Arslan - Software developer, teacher, entrepreneur
The Dangers of an IDE
A modern IDE constantly nudges you to couple your code in a bad way.
Europe, the Digital Colony
Digital colonisation is happening before our eyes. We're sleepwalking into a digital dependency that puts our hospitals, schools, and government services at risk.
Digital sufficiency: The right amount of technology
March 11, 2025
Truth Functional Logic for Hackers - Part One
Bob and Alice are two hackers working on an embedded system with a severe computational constraint - there is a bug in their low-cost microcontroller making OR operations significantly slower than any other operation on the chipset. When they profiled their mi…
It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself | Robert Heaton
My wife and two little boys sometimes go on trips to see friends or family for whom my presence isn’t strictly required. While my wife books the flights I make a show of weighing up my options and asking if it’s really OK if I don’t come. Eventually I’m persua…
Components Are Just Sparkling Hooks
Here’s a question you might encounter while interviewing for React developer roles: “What is the difference between a component and a hook?” The answer that the interviewer is likely looking for is along the lines of “A component is a building block for the UI…
Nearly 50% of Android Apps use Mobile Trackers – James O'Claire
There are 5 large mobile app trackers, also called MMPs. Those are AppsFlyer, Adjust (owned by AppLovin), Branch and Yandex AppMetrica. These mobile attribution companies track users data across many apps. For Android nearly 50% of all apps contain a mobile a…
Ultimate Web Development Guide For Clients | My Blog | Enindu Alahapperuma
I come across numerous web development groups on Facebook every day. These groups are filled with people—some searching for web developers at low prices, whi...
Vibe coding is not coding
LLMs make it possible to directly translate human language into code, making them valuable proxies that can express what we mean in a source code.
Flipping the switch on far-UVC
We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?
How Rotately Works | Browser-Based Video Rotation
Learn how Rotately works to rotate your videos quickly and securely, directly in your browser without uploading them anywhere.
Kratix for Database Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Amazon RDS Deployment
As a platform engineer, your team launched a new application, and demand is growing rapidly. Thousands of users are signing up, so you must create multiple RDS instances with varying RDS instance types: one for testing, another for staging, and another for pro…
How Language Models Understand Nullability
The last five years have shown us that large language models, like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, can effectively write programs in many domains. This is an impressive capability, given that writing programs involves having a formal understanding of program se…
An early look at Nix Dynamic Derivations
I normally like to write about concepts from first principles and wait for much of the dust to have settled on the implementation details, but let me take you on a small tour of an upcoming feature instead.
Write more blog articles, not fewer (Don’t leave the scraps on the cutting floor)
The prevalance of productivity porn | Jannes on the web
Productivity porn is becoming ever more prevalent in our lifes.
Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours | Jonathan's Blog
Given some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare. After looking through european-alternatives.eu, and reading some opin…