The world needs you to consume less news It’s considered good and upstanding to stay on top of world affairs. You want to be educated about the world, right? But there is so much to keep up on. So much injustice to counter. I’m here to tell you that the world needs you to consume less news. I kn...
The Move Faster Manifesto I’ve worked in the software industry for over twenty years. I have been a consultant, a line engineer, a director, a founder, and a CTO. I have worked at firms as small as two engineers and as large as fifty thousand. I frequently get asked how to move fa...
How I Built the Coolest Cyberpunk Gadget for Less Than $10 Meet MiniZX ESPeon — a gadget I’ve been crafting over the past few months. From concept to reality, every aspect of this device is custom-made:…
My Personal Experience with RSI • Josh W. Comeau I spent the better part of a year dealing with cubital tunnel syndrome, a painful nerve issue. This blog post details how I solved this problem.
wanderlost - Anubis is a joke Over the past few months, a lot of people have turned to Anubis by Xe Iaso for trying to protect their sites, primarily Git forges and alternative frontends, against AI scraping.
Buried Toggles Begging to be Brought to Light Throughout the countless years of research on this blog a common thread always comes up: Some features and toggles are often hidden under mountains of hubris that nobody understands. It could be because the software is under-or-badly documented, that it's...
Things I've learned about building + delivering software for other engineers while working in Engineering Productivity · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer 13 lessons I've learned about building software for (internal teams of) software engineers.
How good is o4-mini at GeoGuessr? A recent trend that has popped up since o3 and o4-mini has released has been to submit an image of a location and tell the LLM to guess where it is.
Vibecoding the mood.site Premium Update - k-hole On using Cline and Claude Code to release a major update to production software
What We Mean When We Say “Think” An approachable guide to reasoning models: their roots, construction, strengths, limitations, and broader impact on the AI ecosystem
Linux is now the best gaming system. ｜ fernvenue's Blog When it comes to gaming on Linux, many many many people’s understanding stil remains in the Jurassic era. For the past few years, I’ve been using Linux as my main operating system for both work and gaming. From my personal experience, the gaming experienc...
Decomposing Transactional Systems Every transactional system must execute, order, validate, and persist transactions.
~fpereiro The Pareto Principle, also called the 80/20 rule, states that a few things (the vital few) are much more important than most things (the trivial many). I came across this principle many years ago, in Richard Koch’s wonderful book.
Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series (here’s my coverage of 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash) in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note …
Zig and GPUs GPU programming used to mean wrangling C++ compilers, bloated SDKs, and vendor-specific toolchains. That’s changing. You can now write GPU code in modern languages like Rust and Zig with fewer layers. This post walks through the current state of Zig’s GPU...
@j-g00da's webpage A series meant to document and promote the joint effort of making ratatui truly portable.
GitHub - Kuberwastaken/backdooms: A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms - Kuberwastaken/backdooms
Stop Writing `__init__` Methods YEARS OF DATACLASSES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for overriding special methods just so you can have some attributes.
Defold - Official Homepage - Cross platform game engine Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.
The Fatal Intro Mistake Most Speakers Make (And How to Avoid It) You have just 90 seconds to grab your audience's attention at the start of your talk—or they've mentally checked out. In this video, I reveal why most speakers waste this critical window and how you can use the "cold open" technique to instantly captivate...
.NET 10 Preview 3 - .NET APIs Get Validation, Server-Sent Events (SSE), and more! Get .NET 10 Previews - https://dot.net/next Mike is here to show us some of the latest features in .NET 10 Preview 3 that just landed for API developers including new validation support and server-sent events for things like MCPs! Full Release Notes: ht...
Claude | Jesse Liberty There’s a new AI kid on the block (https://claude.ai) and he is very powerful for programming and many other things. At the risk of being obnoxious, here is what he said about me:
The Real Reason Windows is Free - And what that costs you! 🚀 Ever wondered why Windows 10 was given away for free? Join Dave Plummer, a retired Microsoft engineer from the MS-DOS and Windows 95 era, as he dives into the real reasons behind Microsoft’s bold move. From declining PC sales and Windows 8’s backlash t...
Building Messaging Apps in .NET Using the Official RabbitMQ Client Want to master Clean Architecture? Go here: https://bit.ly/3PupkOJ Want to unlock Modular Monoliths? Go here: https://bit.ly/3SXlzSt Get the source code here: https://www.patreon.com/milanjovanovic Check out my courses: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/co...
(All) Databases Are Just Files. Postgres Too If you invest a little time understanding how the components of your database system fit together—not even the internals, just the externals—you’ll be able to move faster, debug better, and build cleaner workflows with more confidence. It only needs some ...
Google Gemini in .NET: The Ultimate Guide with Jochen Kirstaetter RJJ Software's Software Development Service This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Software Development Services, whether your company is looking to elevate its UK operations or reshape its US strategy, we can provid...
Arch Linux - News: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024.
C# 14.0: Introducing Extension Members and Null-Conditional Assignment .NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Jaliya Udagedara