Life After Dog By Ben Nadel Published 2025-08-04 in Life — Comments (11) I never wanted a dog — I wanted a simple life. My wife was the one who wanted
Benchmarking GPU vs CPU performance for local AI image generation in C# using the TransformersSharp library and Hugging Face models.
A developer documents their experience using AI coding assistants to build a web-based version of Speed Scrabble, focusing on front-end challenges and mobile UI limitations.
Explains a new PostgreSQL 19 feature that displays Memoize planner estimates in EXPLAIN output to help debug query plan choices.
Explains how to disable thread safety checks in Entity Framework for performance, with warnings about risks and proper usage.
Advice on when and why to form a computer performance engineering team, based on the author's experience at Netflix and Intel.
Explores the new Extension Members feature in C# 14, comparing it to traditional extension methods with practical code examples.
Introduction to Spectral, an open-source API linting tool for OpenAPI and custom rulesets, with setup guides and demo.
Introduces a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for dev.to, enabling AI tools to access and interact with the platform's articles, tags, and user data.
A recap of major Generative AI developments in summer 2025, covering new models from Google, xAI, and Chinese firms, plus policy and security news.
A guide to using architectural unit tests in C#/.NET to enforce CancellationToken usage and sealed classes in controllers.
A guide to polyfilling URL search parameter grouping using bracket notation in Adobe ColdFusion, mirroring native Lucee CFML behavior.
Learn how to use SF Symbols in SwiftUI to create loading animations, replacing custom code with built-in, stylable symbols.
A retrospective on the challenging, multi-year migration of the Parse API from Ruby on Rails to Golang, detailing the technical hurdles and solutions.
Explains how explicit arguments override the argumentCollection in ColdFusion function calls, regardless of placement.
Explores a new .NET 10 API for solving the 'marker attribute' problem in source generators, comparing it to existing solutions.
Learn how to use C# to connect to Hugging Face MCP Server and generate AI images through a step-by-step technical tutorial.
Explains why C# List foreach loops don't lower to array-style while loops, focusing on version safety and performance semantics.
A technical guide on building a custom knowledge graph system for health/fitness AI using MongoDB, S3, and LangChain.
A guide to implementing internationalization (i18n) best practices in React frontends and Node.js backend services for scalable, global applications.
