RushOrm for Android replaces the need for SQL by mapping java classes to SQL tables

Domain Driven Design: The Good Parts

The greenfield project started out so promising. Instead of devolving into big ball of mud, the team decided to apply domain-driven design principles. Ubiquitous language, proper boundaries, encapsulation, it all made sense.
But along the way, something went completely and utterly wrong. It started with arguments on the proper way of implementing aggregates and entities. Arguments began over project and folder structure. Someone read a blog post that repositories are evil, and ORMs the devil incarnate. Another read that relational databases are last century, we need to store everything as a stream of events. Then came the actor model and frameworks that sounded like someone clearing their throat. Instead of a nice, clean architecture, the team chased the next new approach without ever actually shipping anything.
Beyond the endless technical arguments it causes, domain-driven design can actually produce great software. We have to look past the hype into the true value of DDD, what it can bring to our organizations and how it can enable us to build quality systems. With the advent of microservices, DDD is more important than ever - but only if we can get to the good parts. 

Avalonia is a cross-platform UI framework for dotnet, providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of platforms such as Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and WebAssembly. Avalonia is mature and production ready and is used by companies 

• Productivity and Performance improvements – Visual Studio is more responsive and usable, and projects load faster.
• Improved tooling to profile and understand your applications performance.
• Updated JavaScript and TypeScript tooling, including improved Vue.js and ESLint support, and right-click context menu productivity improvements.
• More C++ productivity improvements in IntelliSense, Code Analysis, and Just My Code debugging.
• Improved performance for Visual Basic integer manipulation.
• Azure Development improvements, including continuous delivery for Azure Functions, better experience managing secrets via Key Vault, and ability to configure Application Insights during initial site creation.
• More Library Manager features for managing Web Projects’ client-side library files.
• Mobile Development improvements such as faster Android incremental builds and inclusion of Xamarin.Essentials to facilitate building native apps. 

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
                    xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib">
    <system:String x:Key="button1">Hello!</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button2">How Are You?</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button3">Are You OK?</system:String>
 
</ResourceDictionary>

<Application x:Class="BeRMOoDA.WPF.LocalizationSample.App"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">
    <Application.Resources>
 
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Culture_en-US.xaml"/>
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
 
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button1}" />
<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button2}" />
<Button Content="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=button3}" />

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
                    xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib">
    <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="Culture_fa-IR_Farsi.xaml"/>
    </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
    <system:String x:Key="button1">سلام!</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button2">حالت چطوره؟</system:String>
    <system:String x:Key="button3">خوبی؟</system:String>
</ResourceDictionary>

public class CultureAssemblyModel
    {
        //the text will be displayed to user as language name (like Farsi)
        public string DisplayText { get; set; }
        //name of .dll file (like Culture_fa-IR_Farsi.dll)
        public string Name { get; set; }
        //standar notation of this culture (like fa-IR)
        public string Culture { get; set; }
        //name of resource dictionary file inside the loaded .dll (like Culture_fa-IR.xaml)
        public string XamlFileName { get; set; }
    }

//will keep information about loaded assemblies
public List<CultureAssemblyModel> CultureAssemblies { get; set; }
 
//loads assmeblies in languages folder and adds their info to list
 void LoadCultureAssemblies()
 {
      //we should be sure that list is empty before adding info (do u want to add some cultures more than one? of course u dont!)
      CultureAssemblies.Clear();
      //creating a directory represents applications directory\languages
      DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + "\\languages");
      //getting all .dll files in the language folder and its sub dirs. (who knows? maybe someone keeps each culture file in a seperate folder!)
      var assemblies = dir.GetFiles("*.dll", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
      //for each found .dll we will create a model and set its properties and then add to list  for (int i = 0; i < assemblies.Count(); i++)
      {

                string name = assemblies[i].Name;

                CultureAssemblyModel model = new CultureAssemblyModel() { DisplayText = name.Split('.', '_')[2], Culture = name.Split('.', '_')[1], Name = name  , XamlFileName =name.Substring(0, name.LastIndexOf(".")) + ".xaml" };
                CultureAssemblies.Add(model);
      }
 }

comboboxLanguages.ItemsSource = CultureAssemblies;

<ComboBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10" VerticalAlignment="Top" MinWidth="100" Name="comboboxLanguages">
            <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <Label Content="{Binding DisplayText}"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

//loads selected culture
 public void LoadCulture(CultureAssemblyModel culture)
 {
     //creating a FileInfo object represents .dll file of selected cultur
     FileInfo assemblyFile = new FileInfo("languages\\" + culture.Name);
     //loading .dll into memory as a .net assembly
     var assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(assemblyFile.FullName);
     //getting .dll file name
     var assemblyName = assemblyFile.Name.Substring(0, assemblyFile.Name.LastIndexOf("."));
     //creating string represents structure of a pack uri (something like this: /{myassemblyname;component/myresourcefile.xaml}
     string packUri = string.Format(@"/{0};component/{1}", assemblyName, culture.XamlFileName);
     //creating a pack uri
     Uri uri = new Uri(packUri, UriKind.Relative);
     //now we have created a pack uri that represents a resource object in loaded assembly
     //and its time to load that as a resource dictionary (do u remember that we had resource dictionary in culture assemblies? don't u?)
     var dic = Application.LoadComponent(uri) as ResourceDictionary;
     dic.Source = uri;
     //here we will remove current merged dictionaries in our resource dictionary and add recently-loaded resource dictionary as e merged dictionary
     var mergedDics = this.Resources.MergedDictionaries;
     if (mergedDics.Count > 0)
          mergedDics.Clear();
     mergedDics.Add(dic);
 }

void comboboxLanguages_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
 {
     var selectedCulture = (CultureAssemblyModel)comboboxLanguages.SelectedItem;
     App app = Application.Current as App;
     app.LoadCulture(selectedCulture);
 }

ChatGPT is bullshit

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

Learn Blazor Hybrid - Full Course for Beginners | Build cross-platform apps in C#

Let's start our journey together to build beautiful native cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows with Blazor Hybrid, .NET MAUI, C#, and Visual Studio! In this full workshop, I will walk you through everything you need to know about .NET MAUI and building your very first app. You will learn the basics including how to build user interfaces with Razor, how to show data from the internet, how to navigate between pages and combine .NET MAUI pages with Razor pages, access platform features like geolocation, and theme your app for light theme and dark theme. This course has everything you need to learn the basics and set you up for success when building apps with Blazor Hybrid!

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro to the Blazor Hybrid Workshop

00:04:28 - What is Blazor Hybrid & How to Install

00:06:51 - First Blazor Hybrid App & Architecture

00:21:40 - Get Code to Build Your First Blazor Hybrid App

00:26:38 - Blazor Hybrid Project Walkthrough

00:39:22 - Start to Build First Blazor Hybrid App

01:03:10 - Event Handling, Data Binding and Parameters (Slides)

01:09:00 - Add Monkey Data & Fluent UI Blazor Components

01:32:08 - Navigation, NavigationManager, .NET MAUI Pages (Slides)

01:39:19 - Navigation with NavigationManager

01:52:39 - Navigation with NavLinks

01:57:21 - Add .NET MAUI Pages & Components

02:21:11 - Access Platform Functionality (Slides)

02:27:57 - Check Network Connectivity

02:38:04 - Get User Location with Geolocation

02:49:09 - Integration with Other Apps

02:57:42 - App Theming, Light Theme, Dark Theme (Slides)

03:05:36 - JavaScript Interoperability with IJSRuntime

03:20:48 - Theming FluentUI Blazor Components

03:26:05 - Style Status Bar with .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

03:39:00 - .NET MAUI Light & Dark Theme with AppThemeBinding

03:42:58 - Sharing State & Creating Reusable Components (Slides)

03:47:27 - Implement Shared State Blazor Hybrid & .NET MAUI

04:02:47 - Create Reusable Razor Components

04:08:31 - CONGRATULATIONS!