Explores two new .NET 10 features: non-blocking BackgroundService startup and a numeric string comparer for natural sorting.
Explains why command line pipes appear stuck due to output buffering and how to fix it.
The author reflects on coining the term 'Central Bank Digital Currency' and critiques a controversial hypothetical use case involving 'digital meat rations'.
The Big Book of R adds 10 new books, including Spanish titles and English works on data science, statistics, and fantasy football analytics using R.
A candidate's nomination statement and platform for the 2025 Django Software Foundation board election, outlining community-focused initiatives.
Developer announces vdirsyncer2 rewrite is stable, discusses documentation, security audit, and new features like collection protection.
A guide to building a simple, serverless ACID database inspired by Delta Lake using Go, focusing on atomic PutIfAbsent for concurrency control.
A technical tutorial on creating interactive data tables by web-scraping with R's rvest package and styling with reactable.
Announcing the 2024 Ihaka Lectures series, featuring talks on literate programming, data journalism, and using R in government.
Slides and code for an ElixirConf 2024 talk about improving software quality through more effective testing strategies.
The .NET team concludes its async2 experiment, exploring a new runtime-based implementation of async/await for improved efficiency and flexibility.
A daily tech news roundup covering TypeScript 5.6 Beta, Uno Platform 5.3, Avalonia 11.1, .NET Aspire, and other development updates.
Explains a crucial flaw in using boxplots for data visualization and suggests better alternatives.
A developer shares updates on starting a new C# .NET contract role, pursuing indie game development by acquiring an existing game, and streaming programming/gaming content.
A developer's six-month experience switching from i3/X11 to Sway/Wayland on Linux, covering compatibility, GPU issues, and practical tips.
An update on the polymath research project about non-transitive dice and its statistical implications for the Wilcoxon/Mann-Whitney test.
A guide to automating documentation publishing using Markdown, LaTeX, Pandoc, and GitHub Actions to generate PDFs and Word docs.
Argues against blindly following software development best practices, advocating for user-centric and context-specific approaches instead.
Explains kernel ridge regression and scaling RBF kernels using random Fourier features for efficient large-scale machine learning.
Analyzes whether using the 'readonly' modifier in C# leads to performance improvements by examining generated IL and JIT code.
