I built a music player some time ago. I wanted a self-hosted web music player that would list my offline music collection and allowed me to play it on the different devices I have: phone, tablet, laptop and desktop. Of course, I could have used a ready-made solution like Plex…

I guess such an article was bound to happen at some point on this blog. We talked a lot about artificial intelligence and the ways it can be implemented and designed, but until recently artificial intelligence was a technical topic, confined to a pre-determined problem, silently working on optimization in…

We talked a bit about web components in the past, together with a refresh on an initialization quirk that is often misinterpreted by developers and yields hours spent with misdirected debugging. But there is one more thing about HTML5 Web Components that will cause developers grief: the Safari browser. Specifically…

Here is a weird one I recently and painfully learned about. When writing HTML 5 web components, I would usually initialize it in the constructor: export class ArticleListItem extends HTMLLIElement { set data(newValue) { this.dataset.item = newValue.title; this.dataset.summary = newValue.summary…

We will talk today about another forgotten MS-DOS application, available since MS-DOS 6.22: MemMaker. As the name suggests, it was an application that would fine-tune the MS-DOS configuration to allow more RAM to be available to running applications. That statement though will surely cause blank stares and shrugs for people…

Usually neural networks are treated like a set of mathematical operations, or a matrix of neuron weights. We receive an input and pass it through the whole network, layer by layer, ever adjusting it to create the final output. …

I wanted to take a break from security hallucinations and particle swarm optimization algorithms, so today I will try nostalgia. Specifically, another file manager for MS-DOS: XTreeGold. XTree has a fascinating history too, especially since it was the first competent file manager for MS-DOS ever built. …

We explored in the past two artificial intelligence algorithms that were both applying specific operators to a population of solutions: the genetic algorithm that was crossing parents and mutating children to improve the result, and the particle swarm optimization that was moving individuals ever closer to the required optimal. The…

We started last time to talk about application security and we gave the usual reminder about the most common offender: inability to control, limit and audit project dependencies. But then we went further down the rabbit hole and talked about the insufficient transparency of the operating system on remote connections…