Virtual Ants
An exploration of Langton's Ant, a cellular automaton that models emergent behavior, with code examples for simulation and rendering.
An exploration of Langton's Ant, a cellular automaton that models emergent behavior, with code examples for simulation and rendering.
A technical guide on manually generating and installing a Let's Encrypt wildcard SSL/TLS certificate to enable HTTPS in a .NET Web API.
A guide to setting up a simple home media server using a Raspberry Pi and Samba to stream movies across a local network.
A developer shares their experience setting up live reloading in Rust using the cargo-watch crate for automatic recompilation and execution.
A .NET developer explains why formatting LINQ queries vertically (tall) improves readability and maintainability over horizontal (wide) formatting.
Explores AI image generation tools like DALL·E 2 and Stable Diffusion, and the emerging market for specialized prompts on platforms like Promptbase.
A tutorial on implementing full-text search in Django applications using PostgreSQL's built-in search capabilities.
Kent C. Dodds announces EpicWeb.dev, a comprehensive web development learning platform with workshops, podcasts, and exercises.
A technical blog post discussing penalized complexity priors in Bayesian statistics, focusing on how to set priors that appropriately penalize model complexity.
A tutorial on implementing OpenAPI support in a Blazor WebAssembly app to generate API specs and typed clients using NSwag.
An appreciation of QEMU's power, versatility, and reliability for virtualization, cross-architecture development, and kernel testing.
A developer reviews their 10-month tenure at Remix, highlighting community growth and achievements before leaving to focus on a new venture, EpicWeb.dev.
A SwiftUI tutorial on customizing alert button styles, including using button roles and global tint color overrides.
A guide to creating ASCII bar charts directly in PostgreSQL using SQL queries, eliminating the need for external visualization tools.
Explores architect Christopher Alexander's design philosophy and its profound, often misunderstood, application to software development and programming patterns.
The author updates a Python/Django SaaS app with flake8-bugbear, fixing issues and discussing strategies for adding new tools.
Opinion piece on the debate over using self-closing tags (like <input />) versus implicit closing in HTML, discussing readability and tooling.
A guide to setting up low-cost website monitoring for Azure Static WebApps using Application Insights URL ping tests and alerts.
A tutorial on setting up a local Apache Kafka cluster for testing using Docker and Docker Compose.
A behind-the-scenes look at how the program committee used data and tools to select talks for the Current 2022 and Kafka Summit tech conferences.