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Babylon 7.0 Is Out
Our mission is to build one of the most powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering...
I have been scammed in the Booking.com Internal Chat System
·FollowSince 2023, a new type of scam has emerged, scams in the Booking.com internal chat system....
Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software
Backpressure (or back pressure) is something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at...
We Bet on Scala at SwissBorg
Scala has been with us since the company’s inception, and we are really satisfied with how...
CFEngine's Star Trek and AI Origins (2023)
CFEngine is 30 years old this year. For a piece of software, that’s been quite a...
Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages
Modern computer hardware is so capable that we can often simply ignore its limitations when writing...
The Woodpecker in Heat That Attacked and Delayed a Space Shuttle
Close-up perspective of the woodpecker holes in the External Tank (ET) foam insulation of STS-70. [Photo...
Hands on with a Science Fair 160-1 electronic projects kit
This particular IC is not too interesting in modern times, it is fairly obscure, and many...
Fast Virtual Functions: Hacking the VTable for Fun and Profit
Virtual functions have clear intrinsic value; using them can make architectures significantly more flexible and solve...
I thought I understood Bitcoin, until now – by Jurjen Bos – Mar, 2024
I don’t do book reviews, but I am happy to make an exception for this one....
The myth of natural talent. And why we still believe in it
Photo by Etienne Girardet on UnsplashYou have probably encountered some of the following sentences in your...
The best leaders are tireless investigators of the humans around them
🔎 Who’s the best boss you’ve ever had? What made them special? Respond to this email...
AVIF is the Future of Web Images
AVIF is the Future of Web Images — The author notes that this image format “stands...
Our curation team’s approach to keeping AI-generated content out of your recommendations
Vetting content for quality — the job of Medium’s curation team — is especially challenging right...
Chicken Sexing and Knowing
·FollowDetermining the sex of a newborn chick has been a problem that has plagued the poultry...
A very gentle introduction to large language models (without the hype)
🌻 Today is the vernal equinox, aka the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere....
One Simple Prompt Boosts Claude3 and Mistral's API Calling Performance over GPT4
Subtitle: I Spent $100 to Compare the API Calling Capabilities of OpenAI’s Claude 3 and Mistral’s...
Five Koans of Software Architecture (2022)
Random advice I find myself repeating a lot…Yoga meditation vector created by vectorjuice“Those who should decide...
Your next job will come from someone you barely know
⌛ It’s Monday, March 18, and we’re 21% of the way through 2024Today: The law of...
How a "dumbphone" made me better
·Follow94% of internet connections worldwide are made from a smart phone. In the US alone, 97%...
Insanity in the Air: The crash of Pakistan International Airlines flight 8303
Charred wreckage fills a residential street in Karachi after the crash of flight 8303. (AP)On the...