A collection of links and commentary on tech topics including AI, government software projects, and cybersecurity policy.
Guide on how to extend Windows 10 security updates for an extra year using Microsoft's Extended Security Updates (ESU) program.
A critique of the bureaucratic and low-agency culture hindering tech entrepreneurship in Europe, arguing for personal responsibility over resignation.
Explores the commercial Apache Iceberg catalog ecosystem, focusing on REST Catalog standards, optimization strategies, and architectural trade-offs.
Explains how to implement .NET profiler function hooks using the Silhouette library, covering tracing vs. sampling profilers and low-level challenges.
A guide showing how to check the installed and download size of packages using the Pacman and Apt package managers on Linux.
A developer shares a systematic approach to debugging, using a real bug example and contrasting it with AI's limitations.
A podcast episode discussing the inaugural Django on the Med event, its origins, code improvements made, and future plans.
A personal reflection on the persistent challenges women face in tech, focusing on objectification at events and the need for genuine respect and representation.
Build a FastAPI service using Microsoft's MarkItDown library to convert PDFs and documents to Markdown, containerized in Docker with a C# client.
Learn how to create custom extensions for Azure Bicep using the experimental local-deploy feature to deploy beyond Azure resources.
Explains a Markdown parsing bug when wrapping <pre> code blocks in HTML elements and provides workarounds for Eleventy projects.
Explores how inlining and structs in C# interact to optimize performance, focusing on method call overhead and struct copying.
Explores how GenAI and agentic tools are shifting developer workflows towards rapid prototyping and focusing on output over implementation details.
Explores using legal 'motion to dismiss' concepts to evaluate software vulnerability reports against a project's threat model.
A critique of Andrej Karpathy's AGI timeline, arguing that AI systems, not just LLMs, will replace knowledge workers sooner than his definition suggests.
Argues against using API keys for securing enterprise AI tools like LLMs and agents, highlighting security flaws and recommending better alternatives.
Analyzing Australia's coastal imagery using satellite data, Python, GDAL, DuckDB, and QGIS on a high-performance workstation.
dzBdsLauncher 1.0.18 update adds a feature to automatically delete unwanted Windows Start Menu links created by Delphi IDEs.
The author discusses updates to gssrdoc, an R package that provides integrated help documentation for the General Social Survey (GSS) dataset.
