A look at the exciting developments in PHP for 2024, including the PHP Foundation's work, the FrankenPHP app server, and Laravel's growth.
An interview with the creators of Skip.tools, discussing their Swift-to-Kotlin transpiler for building native Android and iOS apps from a single SwiftUI codebase.
A tutorial on building a generative transformer model from scratch in Julia, trained on Shakespeare to create GPT-like text.
Explains the importance of factors in R for data analysis, covering when and how to convert strings to factors to avoid errors.
A monthly roundup of news and resources on stream processing, Apache Flink, Kafka, and data engineering from industry experts.
A guide to creating an Azure Service Health dashboard using Azure Resource Graph Explorer, including KQL queries and a shared workbook.
Explores message delivery challenges during shutdown in actor-based systems using C++ and SObjectizer, with a practical example of an image cache agent.
Explains key causal inference estimands (ATE, ATT, ATU) and how to calculate them using observational data, with a focus on R and the potential outcomes framework.
Explains how to use Xcode 15's DocC to document and create links to native Swift type extensions for better API discoverability.
A guide to implementing a radix tree (compressed trie) data structure in Julia using Test Driven Development (TDD).
Explores building a SharePoint chatbot using Copilot Studio, covering setup, benefits, and key limitations like search type and file size.
Argues that the term 'Open Source' is misleading for LLMs and proposes the new term 'PALE LLMs' (Publicly Available, Locally Executable).
Guide to configuring Git version control for Azure SQL Database and Synapse Dedicated Pool objects using Azure Data Studio.
Benchmarking ClickHouse's performance on a high-end Intel i9-14900K workstation using a 1.1 billion row NYC taxi trip dataset.
A comprehensive guide to setting up and optimizing Visual Studio Code for professional Java development, including extensions and workflow tips.
An overview of five impactful open-source data projects, including Apache Iceberg and Arrow, that are revolutionizing data management and analytics.
A guide to creating a custom Tree-sitter grammar for the Djot markup language, covering advanced topics like external scanners and syntax highlighting.
Introducing NCronJob, a lightweight .NET job scheduler library that sits between BackgroundService and full-featured schedulers like Hangfire.
A software engineer reflects on how life changes like marriage, parenthood, and a demanding job have shifted his priorities and time for open source contributions.
Explains how missing frame pointers in libc break profilers and debuggers, causing incorrect stack traces and misleading flame graphs.
