Windows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer "Windows Sucks" is the most frequent comment I get - here's what I really think and how I would address the most common Windows annoyances: a love letter to Windows wrapped in a rant. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check...
Deep Space Exploitation is OUT NOW! - Deep Space Exploitation by JuhrJuhr Hello! Deep Space Exploitation is now fully released and playable here on Itch and over on Steam! For the first 2 WEEKS the game will be 20% OFF, and 100% of the earnings from Itch sales will GO TO IT...
Please Implement This Simple SLO Hello Newguy! I'm glad to see that you've completed your on-boarding here at Corp. Générique. I have your first ticket ready. It's a simple task. Just 2 story points. But it should give you the opportunity to learn a little about how our services work tog...
Internationaal Strafhof neemt afscheid van Microsoft 365 Het Internationaal Strafhof (International Criminal Court, ICC) ruilt Microsoft 365 in voor Open Desk, een Europees open source alternatief. Dat schrijft de Duitse krant Handelsblatt. De krant verwacht dat het ICC met de overstap mogelijk een trend start ...
Archive.today: FBI Demands Data from Provider Tucows The mysterious website Archive.today is coming under the FBI's crosshairs. A court order is forcing the provider Tucows to hand over user data.
Big Breaking Changes in .NET 10 Get 40% off Dometrain with code UNLOCK40: https://dometrain.com/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube&coupon_code=UNLOCK40 Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I want to talk about the .NET 10 breaking changes that are coming up later this month. Thi...
App Showcase Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.
GitHub - dillo-browser/dillo: Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser. Contribute to dillo-browser/dillo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Tainted Coders Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources for coders of all skill levels.
Hack-a-Day, Day 04: Reverse Vibe Coding Yikes, been having some back pain, and the past few days it's been tougher to work. I've started four projects in four days, without too much to show for it.
Automation Via UEFI – vahidhsahemi.com In our datacenter, we faced a recurring challenge when configuring several servers tasks such as setting the system time, updating passwords, and, most importantly, configuring the RAID controller. Our goal was to combine two 10 TB disks into a RAID 1 gro...
I Built a Local Dev Tool for ChatGPT Apps SDK When OpenAI released the Apps SDK, I was really excited. It finally allowed developers to build custom UI components inside ChatGPT, a big step toward making ChatGPT more like a real app platform. So I tried it on day one. And getting it to work, I quickl...
Can we hide the orange dot without disabling SIP? - Alin Panaitiu A bit of background. When macOS Monterey was announced, Apple added an orange dot indicator that appears on top of everything whenever the microphone is in use. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. ...
Stop vibe coding your unit tests — Andy Gallagher Don't write noisy, unconstructive unit tests with LLMs
The Death of the Demo Why flashy AI demos don't tell the real story — and why we need measurable benchmarks for LLMs and TTS.
Don't trust smart people! - Matthew T. Mason Some ideas about refining your ideas, starting with a chat with Jeff Schneider. Don't trust smart people's ideas, especially your own ideas!
A Short Lesson in Simpler Prompts How I went from 300-word prompts that barely worked to 15-word prompts that worked quite well.
The kind of company I want to be a part of... Like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Without the chocolate. And Charlie.
Why bcrypt Can Be Unsafe for Password Hashing ? TL;DR: bcrypt ignores any bytes after the first 72 bytes, this is due to bcrypt being based on the Blowfish cipher which has this limitation. bcrypt has been a commonly used password hashing algorithm for decades, it’s slow by design, includes built-in s...
Now and Meanwhile: Two Worlds of Finance Most of modern finance has been built for now: instant payments, real-time trading, same-day settlement, on-demand credit. We have made moving money effortless. Tap, swipe, trade,...
The future of LLMs: cognitive core + cartridges? Andrej Karpathy introduced a concept of a “cognitive core”:
Flatpak Happenings Yesterday I released Flatpak 1.17.0. It is the first version of the unstable 1.17 series and the first release in 6 months. There are a few things which didn’t make it for this release, which is why I’m planning to do another unstable release rather soon,...
User Experience is Computation TL;DR Computer programs with a user interface are parallel computation across multiple substrates: CPU and brain. This is a follow-up to my post about Universal Causal Language (UCL). The Concept Every program with a user interface is running parallel...
Developing desktop apps from scratch: A feature checklist Author: alek-tron.com | alektron1@gmail.com
News - New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair A new material has been used to create a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting preventive and restorative dental treatment.