Tech needs a new counter-culture
A software engineer argues that tech culture has lost its original creative spirit and calls for a new counter-culture movement.
A software engineer argues that tech culture has lost its original creative spirit and calls for a new counter-culture movement.
Explores how AI-generated content challenges traditional work review heuristics and the need for new evaluation methods.
A technical guide on connecting Apache Flink SQL to a Kafka broker on Confluent Cloud, covering broker endpoints and API key configuration.
BurntToast, a popular PowerShell module for Windows notifications, celebrates its 10th anniversary and releases its first stable v1.0.0 version.
A guide to creating a macOS Quick Action that lets you right-click any folder in Finder to open it as a project in Positron (an R IDE).
A technical guide on exporting and transferring reading highlights from KOReader using WebDAV and command-line tools.
Explains why AIC comparisons between discrete and continuous statistical models are invalid, using examples with binomial and Normal distributions.
A technical guide on building a contextual fitness AI agent using LangChain.js, covering architecture, challenges, and implementation details.
A guide to using Langchainjs for coordinating AI agent tool and function calls with chain-of-thought reasoning, including a practical code example.
Introduces Graphiti, an open-source framework for building bi-temporal knowledge graphs to give AI agents long-term memory and real-time data understanding.
Microsoft releases SQL Server 2022 Cumulative Update 20, detailing its fixes, servicing model, and patching recommendations.
Ben Nadel introduces a JavaScript utility for generating sequences of values using template literals, useful for CSS classes or test data.
Explores unsafe C# techniques to access private fields without reflection, using memory layout and pointers for performance, as a fun educational exercise.
A technical note on integrating the Whippet GC with Guile, focusing on heap sizing heuristics and fragmentation challenges.
Benchmarking pg_dump performance across PostgreSQL versions 10-18, revealing speed changes and regression in recent versions.
A software engineering article advocating for 'Question Driven Development' by asking critical questions before and after implementing features to ensure completeness.
A technical guide on using heaptrack to debug memory leaks in PostgreSQL, with examples of introducing and detecting leaks in C code.
An engineer shares his 3-year experience of working remotely from Australia for a US firm, detailing the challenges of extreme timezone differences.
SQL Server 2022 Cumulative Update 19 includes a critical security fix for auditing missing permission changes, urging immediate installation.
Explains Go's singleflight package for preventing duplicate work during concurrent requests, improving backend efficiency.