The PhD Metagame: Your Paper Is an Ad - Maxwell Forbes
Insiders to our social practice of science understand that a research paper serves several purposes. In increasing...
You're not shouting into the void: Your personal website will outlast every social media platform
I used to post on Geocities but that's all gone now. I used to post on MySpace but that's all gone now. I used to post on Blogspot but that's all gone now. Facebook, Twitter X, and everything else will all end up the same…
The PhD Metagame: Don't Make Things Actually Work: It's a trap! - Maxwell Forbes
Research papers generally target a specific advancement on some axis. A laser-focused algorithm, model, framing,...
Programming isn't enough
I've been working on a digital, competitive card game for a year now. I started this project with intent to illustrate how to do this kind of thing via some ...
LLMs + Structured Output as a Translation Service
Using an LLM for project localization instead of a dedicated translation service. Comparing code and results.
Making sense of card range query EXPLAIN plans
I was listening to a talk about finding a PAN in a haystack and this slide came up with performance numbers in seconds:
ECS Survivors Part III : Rendering Pipeline and GUI
In the previous blog post, we already restructured the project to create separate modules. We created an input handling system as well as player and enemy movement behaviours. Seems quite simple but it took a bit of thought and iterations to get it right. The …
Next.js vs TanStack
See this post for inspiration. Over the past few months, I've moved as much code as possible away from Next.js . While I see why people…
Analysis of Powerwall Battery Retention
Powerwall is a rechargeable lithium-ion home battery, manufactured by Tesla. It stores energy for backup power, solar self-consumption, and time-of-use load shifting[1]. Powerwall 2 entered mass production in 2017.
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
Staying focused with small teams, being direct, leaving meetings and mastering storytelling will help you win.
Surviving the Hug of Death
A few months after I started this blog, I experienced an influx of traffic like never before. I wrote an article that went "viral" on both Hacker News and Reddit.
Redundancy
In this article, I'm going to benchmark various models to find the best way to deduplicate factoids. This will be my first post, writing about AI as an application developer.
Character Prefix Conditioning using Back Tokenization
Implementing an efficient algorithm based on pruned trie search to find possible generation paths for a user completion request
Animating Text with Dawkins' Weasel
Using Richard Dawkins' famous evolutionary simulation to create a text scramble effect.
ClickHouse + PostgreSQL · Anantha Kumaran
I recently built a hybrid query engine at work. In this post, I discuss what we did, why we did it, and how we accomplished it. To keep things simple, I present a simplified version of the problem, making it easier to explain while focusing on the key aspects.…
Actual LLM agents are coming
Old data, new models
Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices
I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless
Leave it better than you found it. Product development.
"Leave it better than you found it" is a common principle in camping and hiking, encouraging people to clean up after themselves and even improve the space...
Microservices Granularity Tradeoffs - Cirrus Minor
Explore service granularity tradeoffs: when to split or unite microservices: friction, QoS, scalability, and more.
Emails Are Making Me Happy Again
I never thought that here and now, in this particularly messy and generally hostile age of the Internet, after years of being steered toward instant messages...
Uno Platform Live Coding: Looking at Ubuntu Mate and troubleshoot WebView2 on WebAssembly
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.NET 10 Preview 2 is now available! - .NET Blog
Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 2 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!
A Society That Lost Focus
A Society That Lost Focus par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Coffee and Open Source Conversation - Maxim Fateev
Maxim has spent the last 25 years building massive distributed systems for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Uber. Among other things, he led the design and development of the AWS SQS backend, and AWS Simple Workflow Service. At Uber, Maxim led the effort on open…
Introducing two new PebbleOS watches!
Including my dream smartwatch…
Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
I’m surprised that you’re surprised
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
.NET 9 🚀 💥 - Generate PDF in your API
In this video we will discuss how we can generate PDFs in .NET using QuestPDF Support me on Patreon to access the source code: https://www.patreon.com/mohamadlawand Let us connect: 🌍 My website - https://mohamadlawand.com 📸 Instagram - https://www.insta…
.NET Aspire on the open web
Turn your videos into live streams with https://restream.io Fritz is doing some bug fixes and features for https://aspireify.NET
GIMP - GIMP 3.0 Released
Release notes for GIMP 3.0
RESTful API Design: Why Simplicity Wins - Chris Woody Woodruff
APIs are the backbone of modern applications, and getting their design right can mean the difference between an easy-to-use system and a frustrating mess. That’s where REST (Representational State Transfer) comes in. RESTful API design focuses on simplicity, s…
.NET MAUI Lead Leaves to Join .NET Aspire!
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 with Microsoft Senior…
Adding Cloudflare Turnstile to an ASP.NET Core website
Learn how to integrate Cloudflare Turnstile into your ASP.NET Core website as a reCAPTCHA alternative. Follow this guide to reduce bot traffic.
Archival Storage
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...
GIMP - GIMP 3.0 Released
Release notes for GIMP 3.0
Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different
Deep neural networks are often seen as different from other model classes by defying conventional notions of generalization. Popular examples of anomalous generalization behaviour include benign overfitting, double descent, and the success of overparametrizati…