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An image kernel is a small matrix used to apply effects like the ones you might find in Photoshop or Gimp, such as blurring, sharpening, outlining or embossing. They're also used in machine learning for 'feature extraction', a technique for determining the most important portions of an image. In this context the…
This post is not going to be about what’s wrong with individual databases. There are so many databases and so many individual API issues, operational problems, and arbitrary limitations that it wou…
Most PDF files do not look readable in a text editor. Compression, encryption, and embedded images are largely to blame. After removing these three components, one can more easily see that PDF is a human-readable document description language.
Sendwithus helps teams manage transactional emails outside of source code — leading to streamlined workflows and always on-brand emails. Learn more here!
Modern applications often spread state across a variety of systems: databases, caches, queues, data warehouses, search indices, and so on. Coordinating these systems is challenging: caches are often stale, the analytics platform might lag days behind the primary database, the search index might lose data, and…
Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
How to Find Hidden Cameras in your AirBNB, Author: Johannes Ullrich
WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your site with increased speed, reliability, and precision.
What’s the biggest pixel size of a PNG image in the smallest number of bytes? I wanted to try to create an image that could be downloaded but whose pixel buffer would be too big to store in the RAM of a PC. Here is a PNG image of 6,132,534 bytes (5.8 MB) and 225,000 × 225,000 pixels (50.625 gigapixels), which, if…
A detailed look at the frameworks, concurrency model, error handling, middleware constructs, and testing strategies of a web service written in Rust.
A short history of the data structure that powered the classic first-person shooter.
"Prompt Engineering" emerged from the growth of language models to describe the process of applying prompting to effectively extract information from language models, typically for use in real-world applications.
Hacky repo to see what the Copilot extension sends to the server
Apple announced it has identified even more ways to update AirTag safety warnings and help guard against unwanted tracking of people and property.
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Phoenix 1.7.0 is here! This releases includes major new features, component-based generators, updated conventions, LiveView Streams, and more!
Artistic interpretations of the 54 Roman emperors of the Principate, created with AI and historical references.
Back in 2011, I happened to get a job writing Backbone.js app. If you never did that, don’t. I was complaining about difficulties with composition left and right to [...]
What hardware we're considering purchasing now that we have to move GitLab.com to metal.
My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation : it's a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
The Serenity operating system turns 1 year old today. I'm counting from the first commit in the git repository , on October 10, 2018. Parts of the code had been around for a while before that, so this first commit was really about putting everything I was tinkering with into a shared repo.
By Asa Dotzler and Brad Lassey Electrolysis is the project name for Mozilla's efforts to split Firefox into multiple processes to improve responsiveness, stability, and security. The first phase of ...
We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.
