This article has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple. A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content … Read more
I want to get a second TV which will more or less be a second monitor for my System76 laptop which is plugged into a bunch of music equipment, like a korg midi keyboard, and a novation drum pad, all … Read more
What’s New in C# 14 Series If you’ve ever developed in C#, you’ve likely encountered a snippet like the one below: if (config?.Settings is not null) { config.Settings.RetryPolicy = new ExponentialBackoffRetryPolicy(); } This check is necessary because, if config or … Read more
The drawbacks I’d be remiss not to mention some of the drawbacks of pen plotters. There are many good reasons that nearly every commercial printing studio, design house, and architecture firm has abandoned the pen plotter as their tool of … Read more
What’s the strongest model I can train on my MacBook Pro in five minutes? I’ll give the answer upfront: the best 5-minute model I could train was a ~1.8M-param GPT-style transformer trained on ~20M TinyStories tokens, reaching ~9.6 perplexity on … Read more
As I mentioned at the start of my Optimizing Ruby’s JSON series of posts, performance isn’t why I candidated to be the new gem’s maintainer. The actual reason is that the gem has many APIs that I think aren’t very … Read more
Cell and gene therapies are treating previously untreatable diseases and saving tens of thousands of lives. So why are companies shutting down? Tree of Hope, Remain Strong (1946) by Frida Kahlo First attempts in a new field of medicine rarely … Read more
First of all, this is purely a personal learning project for me, aiming to combine three of my passions: photography, software engineering, and my family memories. I have a large collection of family photos and want to build an interactive … Read more
The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at which ones have raised Series A rounds. I was really excited to take a look at the data for a number of reasons: We … Read more
Brace yourselves, folks: Swift 6.2 contains another gigantic collection of additions and improvements to the language, while also adding some important refinements to Swift concurrency that ought to make it much easier to adopt everywhere. Many changes are small, such … Read more