Author announces receiving the Microsoft MVP Award for expertise in Azure Infrastructure as Code, highlighting community contributions.
A consultant discusses three key questions to assess an organization's test automation strategy and ensure it aligns with business goals.
Guide to running local LLMs like Llama3 and Phi-3 on a Raspberry Pi 5 using Ollama for private, cost-effective AI.
A developer's investigation into unexpected cost spikes from a Vertex AI resource pool, with a cautionary guide on managing cloud ML resources.
Explores the rise of gold-backed stablecoins like Tether Gold and HSBC Gold Token, analyzing their advantages over traditional gold investments.
A backend developer shares a hackathon experience using ChatGPT for frontend coding, highlighting its limitations and the need for domain expertise.
Monthly update on new features for Azure WebApps, including disaster recovery changes, load testing preview, and Java 21 support.
Analysis of Python's version epoch feature, its practical issues for projects switching versioning schemes like CalVer, and why it's broken.
A guide explaining Azure Arc, a Microsoft tool for managing on-premise and multi-cloud servers, and providing step-by-step deployment instructions.
A CTO's experiment integrating AI with blockchain to create 'purpose bound money', challenging the idea that the two technologies are incompatible.
A SwiftUI tutorial on creating a reusable enum to streamline standard button types (add, delete, edit) with localization support.
A calendar of major virtualization conferences for 2024, including VMware Explore, Nutanix .NEXT, and Microsoft Ignite, with dates and locations.
A project lead details the migration of the DefinitelyTyped repository from TSLint to ESLint and dprint for formatting, highlighting the challenges and decisions involved.
A tutorial on creating a Rust library and consuming it from a .NET application using C# and FFI (Foreign Function Interface).
A developer shares their ideal features for a modern CMS, inspired by industry discussions and personal experience with platforms like WordPress and Ghost.
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.
Explains how C# List<T> detects modifications during enumeration using a version field to throw InvalidOperationException.
A developer's six-month experience switching from i3/X11 to Sway/Wayland on Linux, covering compatibility, GPU issues, and practical tips.
A guide to automating documentation publishing using Markdown, LaTeX, Pandoc, and GitHub Actions to generate PDFs and Word docs.
An update on the polymath research project about non-transitive dice and its statistical implications for the Wilcoxon/Mann-Whitney test.
