A critique of AI and procedural generation in video games, arguing they create soulless, repetitive content instead of meaningful experiences.
A retrospective on ChatGPT's third anniversary, covering its surprising launch, initial internal skepticism, and unprecedented growth to 800 million users.
A developer shares progress on their game 'Project Hack', discussing UI design, leaderboard implementation, and the challenges of gameplay balancing.
A blog post discussing GitHub's frontend requiring JavaScript, hindering use in the Dillo browser, and the principle of progressive enhancement.
Explains the internal execution flow of an activity in Azure Durable Functions, focusing on message queues and dispatchers.
A developer explains how to automate a GitHub profile using GitHub Actions to dynamically display blog posts, newsletters, and videos.
A detailed account of a sophisticated email scam involving hidden forwarding and reply-to settings, with advice for thorough account security checks.
Explores built-in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access bypasses, focusing on device compliance vulnerabilities and security implications.
A developer explains how to set up a Cloudflare Tunnel to securely access a self-hosted Docker application from anywhere without exposing their home network.
A guide to deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) within an Azure Local lab environment, covering architecture and tools.
A technical analysis comparing PostgreSQL JSON storage options, compression methods (pglz vs. lz4), and performance optimizations.
Explores the fundamental differences between animal intelligence and AI/LLM intelligence, focusing on their distinct evolutionary and optimization pressures.
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Explains a Sony α7 camera quirk: 4K60 video recording is disabled when APS-C crop mode is activated, with an unclear error message.
Explores 'context plumbing' for AI agents, the engineering needed to move relevant context from various sources to where AI systems run.
Wikipedia's new guideline advises against using LLMs to generate new articles from scratch, highlighting limitations of AI in content creation.
A guide to automating the publishing of internal .NET NuGet packages using GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages.
Compares the energy use of a ChatGPT query to streaming Netflix, putting AI's carbon footprint into perspective.
Introduces dremioframe, a Python DataFrame library for querying Dremio with a pandas-like API, generating SQL under the hood.
Explains how adding random jitter to scheduled tasks can prevent synchronized resource spikes and improve application performance.
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A developer's personal experiment with AI-driven software development using local LLMs, detailing setup, challenges, and initial impressions.
