8 August 2025

39 links · Friday

The Fundamentals Still Matter

With the rise of LLMs, I am seeing tech professionals blatantly skipping over the fundamentals. For example, in my world of data analytics, SQL is table s...

Is HTMX Dying?

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OOP is not Design Patterns

It's tough to build a design pattern thinking that fits rightly at the problem that you are solving.

No Model Selector, Always the Best Models

There are a lot of models these days. I find myself asking the same question – like literally the exact same prompt copy and pasted – to various models from various providers. I use the exact same prompt because I’m curious to probe how the various models beha…

You Might Not Need RAG - Matthew Newton

How our straightforward approach of letting the LLM read complete documents outperformed a sophisticated RAG pipeline, and what we learned about agentic retrieval versus traditional retrieve-then-generate approaches.

Modeling Symmetries

Modeling symmetries in forcefields and generative models of molecules

Some thoughts on London

A collection of thoughts I had while visiting London in no order whatsoever

Please Don’t Send “See Below”

Email threads have got to be one of the worst possible forms of communication. You've been here before. A perfectly respectable morning is passing by. You're...

You’re Doing Rate Limiting Wrong in .NET

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Flipper Zero DarkWeb Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security

Over on YouTube Talking Sasquach has recently tested custom firmware for the Flipper Zero that can entirely break the rolling code security system used on most modern vehicles. Rolling code security works by using a synchronized algorithm between a transmitter…

OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

OpenAI just released its first ever open-source large language models, called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. You can talk to them here. Are they good models…

The Field Keyword in C# 14

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Getting Started with GraphQL in .NET

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The Definitive Guide: MAUI Blazor Hybrid & Web

Get a subscription and improve your career: https://courses.devs.school In this Definitive Guide to MAUI Blazor Hybrid & Web, we build a cross-platform AI Image Generator that runs in Blazor Web and .NET MAUI (Windows/Android). You’ll learn to share UI and lo…

I'm back, and let's talk about Aspire

Fritz is diving into Aspire use with OpenTelemetry so that we can do some more cool logging and reporting from TagzApp

Historical Tech Tree

Interactive visualization of technological history

Do this NOW: Use Disposable Windows for Maximum Security!

Make your PC experience radically cleaner and safer by enabling this little-known but important Windows feature! Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check out my new merch store at: http://davesgaragemerch.com/ Check out ShopTalk…

Noteflakes - P2 - a Functional HTML Templating Engine for Ruby

I’ve just released P2, a new HTML templating engine for Ruby. P2 builds on the work I did in Papercraft, but takes things quite a bit farther: templates are expressed as plain procs and are automatically compiled in order to make it fast. How fast?