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Many believe that tackling super difficult problems is the best way to improve math skills, but this might not be the case. Research shows that beginners learn best through direct instruction, not open-ended challenges. The key to progress is acquiring foundational skills through deliberate practice, whereby one works just beyond their current abilities making small […]
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Automerge is a library that promotes building local-first software by allowing collaborative applications to automatically merge data changes without a central server. This Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) is network-agnostic, meaning it can work across various network protocols or even through emailing files. The portability of Automerge, implemented in JavaScript and Rust, with FFI bindings […]
In the world of guitar playing, tablatures offer a simplified way to learn songs without reading traditional sheet music. But what if you could create your own tablature player from scratch? Enter Ruxguitar, a Rust-based project that allows you to parse binary tablature files, draw the tablature on a custom UI using the Iced library, […]
In 2023, Search.gov powered one third of federal government domains, providing free, effective, and simple search engine capabilities for over 2,000 websites. The report details what the public was searching for on these sites. Designed specifically for government use, Search.gov offers secure, compliant, and highly configurable search options without requiring developers. With hands-on customer service […]
The web content explores the evolution of language and NLP models, focusing on the shift from encoder models like BERT to the new era of large language models (LLMs). The author delves into the intricacies of encoder-decoders, decoder-only models, and PrefixLMs, highlighting their similarities and differences. They discuss the pros and cons of different model […]
Summary: The new edition of Hypermedia Systems has been redesigned with typo and grammar fixes and a new layout. The book was ported to Typst, a LaTeX replacement, due to limitations in AsciiDoc’s print output. Typst offers better typesetting capabilities, allowing for a more customizable design. Despite challenges with bugs and manual workarounds, the book […]
Garage is a lightweight, efficient, and self-contained software designed by sysadmins, ensuring easy deployment and operation on all Linux distributions. It can be run on any machine, offering high resilience to network and system failures with low hardware requirements. Unique to Garage is its ability to build clusters with heterogeneous hardware, providing data resiliency by […]
Visual programming is not a magic solution that will turn anyone into a programmer, similar to how CAD didn’t make everyone an industrial designer. There are still complex concepts to master, whether programming visually or textually. Most visual programming paradigms focus on coding basics, which can be helpful for beginners but offer limited value to […]
Experience the power of the Radxa X4, a credit card-sized Intel Processor N100 SBC priced like a Raspberry Pi 5. With features like dual micro HDMI output, 2.5GbE, WiFi 6, and M.2 SSD support up to 8 times faster than PCIe HAT for the Pi 5. This x86 platform offers 4GB or 8GB LPDDR5 RAM, […]
The author, a former SRE at Google, is a big Prometheus and Grafana fan. They use Prometheus for monitoring their personal servers, client work, and internal events like Euskal Encounter. They experienced an unexpected crash in node_exporter, a Prometheus component written in Go, which led to a series of unusual crashes hinting at a potential […]