World Emulation via Neural Network
I turned a forest trail near my apartment into a playable neural world. You can explore that world in your web browser by clicking right here:
O(no) You Didn’t 😱
A deep dive into why real-world performance often defies Big-O expectations and why context and profiling matter more than theoretical complexity
staring into the abyss
reflections on working in tech in America in 2025 and a rant about the general state of affairs of our industry.
A journey into character decoding
Disclaimer: This post isn’t a complete or technically rigorous explanation of UTF-8 decoding. It’s more of a “here’s how I started to wrap my head around it” kind of thing. The Lua code is intentionally simplified — it skips over edge cases like invalid byte s…
Land with no aunties
Land with no aunties
We don't notice slow improvement
Technologies take off before they're perfected, and we anchor to those early versions. But over time, they are quietly optimized until one day, they just work - and we hardly notice.
Apps Tell Us Who Matters Now?
A recent event got me thinking. Why do we give social media that much power over our lives? I’m fairly young, but I’ve had an experience of life without social media as it exists today. There was a time when we gauged how close certain friends were using more …
Dario Amodei — The Urgency of Interpretability
Shut Up and Dance
A human interest piece about a person who never existed, who has spent his entire adult life doing something I don't know anything about.
Learning from video games
In 2005, Steve Jobs told the graduating class of Stanford a now-famous story about connecting the dots - a story about the calligraphy courses he took in his college years, which later influenced the industry-leading digital fonts that shipped with the Macinto…
What Our Parents Lacked | thoughts
Think less, ship more
I do too much thinking about what I want to make, and not enough actually making the thing.
The seven bridges of Konigsberg puzzle
The sun dipped low over the bustling City of Königsberg, casting golden reflections over the Pregel River. Its waters divided the town into four distinct land masses, connected by seven foot-bridge…
When /etc/h*sts Breaks Your Substack Editor: An Adventure in Web Content Filtering
An exploration of web security mechanisms and their unexpected consequences
PhD Timeline
Add Your Own C# Code to AI Models with Plugins
Ever wondered how to plug your own .NET functions into AI models? Watch this shorts to see how plugins make it possible! Our website: https://abp.io Watch full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiykJsLd12E&t=128s
Music AI Sandbox, now with new features and broader access
Google has long collaborated with musicians, producers, and artists in the research and development of music AI tools. Ever since launching the Magenta project, in 2016, we’ve been exploring how...
MongoDB Atlas Vector Search in .NET (full tutorial)
Learn more about MongoDB Atlas Vector Search: https://fnf.dev/4iLtBck Get the source code for this video for FREE → https://the-dotnet-weekly.kit.com/mongodb-atlas Want to master Clean Architecture? Go here: https://bit.ly/3PupkOJ Want to unlock Modular Monol…
How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
Learn how Discord scaled its search infrastructure to index trillions of messages and unlock new features.
From Hello World to Hello Customers: Why Programs Aren’t Products
We’ve all been there. You knock out a script in an hour, it runs, it works, and you feel like a...
Don't Loop the Wrong Way in .NET
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.NET Data Community Standup - Azure SQL vector search with Davide Mauri
Join us for a special edition of the .NET Data Community Standup as we welcome Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, to explore the exciting new vector search capabilities in Azure SQL. With the rise of AI-powered applications and semantic sear…