Category: Software
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Imagine crafting materials with properties so exotic, they redefine what’s possible. Think invisibility cloaks, energy sources beyond our wildest dreams, or ultra-fast processors operating at the speed of light. The problem? Designing structures at the nanoscale is incredibly complex and computationally expensive. Enter the nanophotonic foundation model. This is where AI takes the reins, learning…
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Hiring managers operate under load. They scan for the smallest number of signals that predict whether you’ll remove friction instead of adding it. Everything else is noise. Rebuild your materials around that reality. Strip your portfolio to three projects maximum. For each one, document the constraint, the intervention, and the delta. No narratives. No tooling…
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React simplifies building user interfaces with hooks like useState for managing dynamic values. But it’s common to overuse useState. This often leads to duplicated data and unnecessary complexity. For instance, you might store a full name in state when it can be calculated from first and last name props, or duplicate fetched data from a…
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When testing consumes considerable amount of your development cycle, AI changes everything. But most organizations are optimizing for the wrong goal. I have guided engineering organizations through every major technology evolution over the past two decades, including the migration from manual QA to automated suites, waterfall phases to continuous testing in DevOps pipelines. The AI…
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Just like they did two years ago, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has once again proposed new rules that would make it much harder to challenge bad patents through inter partes review (IPR). But this time the rule is much worse for developers and startups. And that’s a serious concern. Congress created IPRs so…
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Sometimes I want to set the value of a CSS property to that of a different property, even if I don’t know what that value is, and even if it changes later. Unfortunately though, that’s not possible (at least, there isn’t a CSS function that specifically does that). In my opinion, it’d be super useful…
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No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use our product. It might be indeed quite common — but there will also be other — urgent, frustrating, stressful situations. And they are the ones that we rarely account for. So how do we account for such situations?…
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been building an 8-register VM in Rust for a small Lisp-like DSL, plus a proof pipeline that turns programs into STARK proofs of execution. The DSL is compiled by the zk-lisp-compiler crate into a compact Op sequence, and proofs are generated through a dedicated backend built on top of…
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Every year, thousands of developers, freelancers, and businesses search for WordPress themes discount opportunities to build professional websites without raising project costs. As the WordPress ecosystem expands, theme pricing strategies are also evolving, creating new patterns in how discounts are offered and how users evaluate them. This article provides an informational, neutral look at how…
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Repo Link: https://github.com/RiverDave/rrcm/tree/main I haven’t been too enthusiastic about the development of this project in the last few weeks. The main reason is that most of what we did was mainly based on learning and implementing fairly small details on our projects (like testing, CI’s and stuff). I think something else to consider is that…