Look, the sleigh is great, but it doesn’t exactly run on unleaded. This is...
Look, the sleigh is great, but it doesn’t exactly run on unleaded. This is my daily driver!... Take me to this post.
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Classifiers and cosmotechnics
I’ve been playing around with Midjourney for work and the one thing that makes Stable Diffusion cool and useful to me is the --sref flag to summon results in a specific visual style or “style reference” (e.g. Celestial Swirlscape is --sref 2566192150). They differ a bit from traditional or “artist” styles (e.g. “In the style of Picasso” or “Rip off Studio Ghibli”) but can be that or they can be more generic or compositional like “Pink Retronetic Dreamscape”. I’ve read a deep-dive on SREF codes a... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 7: Non-modifying trackers, second try
Another attempt to make tracking pointers to objects that you can't modify. The post Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 7: Non-modifying trackers, second try appeared first on The Old New Thing.... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025The long season of langdev
Whereby I talk about programming language development and why, and where it might go...... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025Saving the current URL to a Note
Inspired by John Gruber mentioning on the Cortex podcast that he has a shortcut that saves links to a note in Tot, I thought I'd do something similar for saving to a note in Apple Notes. I want to store as a bullet item containing the name of the page, the link and the date. Something like this: (Funny that the spellchecker doesn't know that Thu is the short form for Thursday) The Save Links… continue reading.... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025Converting an xUnit test project to TUnit
In this post I discuss the new TUnit testing framework, why I ported one of my libraries to use it instead of xUnit and related issues I had to deal with... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025CodeSOD: I Am Not 200
In theory, HTTP status codes should be easy to work with. In the 100s? You're doing some weird stuff and breaking up large requests into multiple sub-requests. 200s? It's all good. 300s? Look over there. 400s? What the hell are you trying to do? 500s? What the hell is the server trying to do? This doesn't mean people don't endlessly find ways to make it hard. LinkedIn, for example, apparently likes to send 999s if you try and view a page without being logged in. Shopify has invented a few. Apach... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025How I learn about generative AI
I do not consider myself an expert in generative AI, but I now know enough to build full-stack web applications on top of generative AI models, evaluate the quality of those applications, and decide whether new models or frameworks will be useful. These are the resources that I personally used for getting up to speed with generative AI. AI foundation Let's start first with the long-form content: books and videos that gave me a more solid foundation. AI En... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025Does my hair look all right, maaan? I like to look good when I...
Does my hair look all right, maaan? I like to look good when I fly my freak flag, you know?... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025HTMX – Server Components without React
Let's be honest: Half the APIs you write are for a specific purpose in a specific component on a specific page. Re-usable in theory but you've never tried. That's where Server Components come in ... but what if your server isn't JavaScript?... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025AI Models Are Not Safety-Tuned for Kids
It hit me like a lightning bolt during a casual conversation about AI safety: we’re tuning these models for adults, but kids are using them too.... Take me to this post.
August 19, 2025The Quest for the Shortest Domain
In the world of bug bounty hunting, having a short domain for XSS payloads can be the difference in exploiting a bug or not… and it’s just really cool to have a nice domain for payloads, LOL.... Take me to this post.
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