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What most young programmers need to learn
In the past 7.5 years I have supervised over a dozen programming interns at Ronimo and have seen hundreds of portfolios of students and gra...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,240 posts.
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How does the Hololens 2 matter?
So that happened, the Hololens 2 has been released. A few people have asked me what I think, so it’s about time I got my thoughts down on paper the interwebs. I’ve had a day or 2 to mull over it ...
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The hype is the product
Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core foc
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If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Questions to ask yourself when writing tests
Talk to yourself to make sure your tests help you achieve your aims
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The future of Python web services looks GIL-free
Web frameworks benchmarks on CPython 3.14t looks promising
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Confession of a so-called AI expert
[Twitter thread, Hacker News discussion, Le Monde]
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How I use Obsidian (2023)
My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
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Turbo Rascal Syntax Error
TRSE (or its full original name “Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN”) is a complete suite (IDE, compiler, programming language, resource editor) intended for developing games/demos for 8 / 16-bit line of computers, with a focus on the MOS 6502, the Motorola 68000, the (GB)Z80, the M6809 and the X86…
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The Decoherence Trap
Of all the forms of tech debt, decoherence is the worst. It compounds exponentially with a system's rate of change, and AI is now producing it faster than ever, leading us deeper and deeper into the abyss...
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AI and Trust
I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. I trusted thousands of other drivers on the road not to ram my car on the way. At the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers and everyone else who…
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Analytics Without Google
Last week, I launched a personal project . A nice change that most definitely came from a desire to do something else during covid-19 lockdown. With that launch came a desire to have some level of analytics, I didn't need the full customer journey but I sure was curious how many people were using my site after I…
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Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy
Possibly the one you're Googling about.
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The principle of charity: Criticize the best interpretation of an argument
The principle of charity is a philosophical principle that denotes that, when interpreting someone’s statement, you should assume that the best possible interpretation of that statement is the one that the speaker meant to convey. Accordingly, to implement the principle of charity, you should not attribute falsehoods…
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Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI
We need to augment our command line tools and design APIs so they can be better used by LLM Agents. The designs are inadequate for LLMs as they are now – especially if you're constrained by the tiny context windows available with local models.
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5NF and Database Design
Author: Alexey Makhotkin squadette@gmail.com, (~3900 words) One of the goals of this publication is to deconstruct the traditional ways of teaching basic topics in relational databases. Previously we discussed the fourth normal form (4NF): “Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing”. Let’s discuss the…
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“iCloud Backup”
Last year, I bought my 87-year-old grandfather an iPad 2 to replace the who-knows-what PC that was frustrating him constantly. He only used the PC for email and playing music, so it was a no-brainer.
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Testing Intel’s Arc A770 GPU for Deep Learning
This post covers my experience training image classification models with Intel’s PyTorch extension on the Arc A770 GPU.
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Libraries – how companies do not understand open spaces
Michał Tajchert — Chief Technology Officer. Mobile, platform & eCommerce engineering. Warsaw, PL.
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The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros
Blog and Portfolio site for Forrest Smith, aka ForrestTheWoods
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Common Multithreading Mistakes in C# – Unsafe Assumptions
An in-depth look at exactly what the CPU and runtime can do to subvert us when we don't write properly thread-safe code.
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Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children
I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages R…
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Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot
After reading a report yesterday saying that Rackspace cloud servers were a better deal than Amazon's, I decided to check it out today.
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