21 April 2025

28 links · Monday

What is the stable matching problem

You’ve swiped through dozens of profiles, but why does it feel like there’s no perfect match for you? What if there was another way where we could keep everyone happy? I think it’s time to play Cup…

Desktop is Dead

The desktop metaphor, first in the Xerox Alto and then the Macintosh, is now 52 years old. It was a good solution to the problem of making non-technical knowledge workers use the computer effectively. But the real fact is that the desktop metaphor has died, an…

Llama 2 LLM on DOS

Ever thought of running a local Large Language Model (LLM) on a vintage PC running DOS? Now you can!

Coding NEON kernels for the Cortex-A53 – Daniel Estévez

Some weeks ago, I presented at FOSDEM my work-in-progress high performance SDR runtime qsdr. I showed a hand-written NEON assembly implementation of a kernel that computes y[n]=ax[n]+b, which I used as the basic math block for benchmarks on a Kria KV260 board …

Text as UX

Using text as a major UX compoenent of an application

Your first growth hire

Who should they be? How should you evaluate them? Do you go for a generalist or a specialist? And how should you think about agencies, contractors and advisors?

The fiction experiment

Have you ever read a book so thrilling, you can’t put it down? And has such a book ever changed the way you look at the world? I only recently began to un...

When you should lie to the language model

Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was produced by someone else. The problem is that current-generation…

Programming Automated Machines for my Farming Game

Devlog video about "Homegrown", the casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine. Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the game & code for Homegrown, the city-builder, and Equilinox: https://www.patreon.com/thinmatrix Play my previous gam…

Getting Forked by Microsoft

Three years ago, I was part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for end user customers. A main source for downtime in customer environments occurred when image registries went down. The traditional way to solve this problem…

Run GPT 4 or Local LLMs with One Line of Code

In this short, see how you can switch between GPT-4 and local LLMs like Phi or LLaMA with just one line of code! Our website: https://abp.io Here is the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiykJsLd12E&t=128s

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C# is NOT Java Done Right. Hear me out.

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Extensions get an update in .NET 10

With the latest preview: .NET 10 preview 3, we did get an overhaul on extensions. It might enable some nice tricks in the future.