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nicola, 11 days ago to ADHD

I read ADHD—A Lifelong Struggle today. It’s the best thing I’ve read on ADHD so far. Its advice is grounded in experience and applies to everyone: those who think ADHD is a crock or, worse, an excuse, those who suffer from it, and those who have family members or friends who suffer from it.

https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html

#adhd

nicola, 2 months ago to ADHD

Medieval monks also needed help with focus and attention. Joel J Miller discusses this in What Monks Know About Focus, the latest issue of Miller’s Book Review, which I recently discovered and shows great promise.

https://nicolaiarocci.com/medieval-monks-also-had-focus-issues/

#links #adhd

nicola, 3 months ago to opensource

From my experience as a maintainer of midly successful open-source projects, I have come to the conclusion that people who criticize accepting payment to work on such projects are either acting in bad faith or are incredibly naive.

Anyway, Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s recent Paying people to work on open source is good is a stellar post on the topic of open-source sustainability.

https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/

#OpenSource

nicola, 4 months ago to llm

Linus Torvalds on the impact of AI (LLMs) on programming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHHT6W-N0ak

I think I like his take on the topic.

#llm #ai #programming

nicola, 4 months ago to CSharp

Today’s fun was implementing OAuth2’s RFC 7636’s PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange) in C#. It’s relatively straightforward, but I decided to share my implementation should it be helpful to someone else out there:

https://nicolaiarocci.com/how-to-implement-pkce-code-challenge-in-csharp/

#csharp #dotnet

nicola, 5 months ago to llm

Quoting Andrej Karpathy:

"I always struggle a bit with I'm asked about the "hallucination problem" in LLMs. Because, in some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do. They are dream machines.

We direct their dreams with prompts. The prompts start the dream, and based on the LLM's hazy recollection of its training documents, most of the time the result goes someplace useful."

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1733299213503787018

#llm #ai #quote

nicola, 9 months ago to dotnet

Fattura Elettronica for .NET v3.4.10 was released on NuGet today. The Fattura Elettronica project allows for the validation and de/serialization of electronic invoices following the Italian Revenue Agency standards. This release adds a missing validation point. See the changelog for details (Italian).

https://fatturaelettronicaopensource.org/docs/changelog.html#v-3410

#dotnet #csharp #opensource

nicola, 10 months ago to microsoft

I’ve just received news that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award in the Software Development category.

It is an honor and a pleasure to be renewed for the eighth year. Being in the MVP program has been a happy and rewarding ride, and I’m glad the journey continues for another year.

#mvpaward #microsoft #dotnet