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In the vast, evolving landscape of JavaScript, there’s a feature that stands out for its versatility and power yet remains underappreciated by many developers: JavaScript proxies.

In this guide, we’ll set up a new Linux server running Ubuntu, configured with Nginx, PHP, and MySQL.

Like many, my wife and I fell for the Koh Cleaner advertisements on Facebook.

This year Neural DSP did something strange at NAMM 2024.

My family and I live in a rural area that gets warm and wet when it rains.

Once upon a console, in the deep, dark woods of an Aurelia 2 application, there was a developer who wanted to chop down the forest of confusion and carve out their own path with a custom logger.

If you’re like me, when you play a song in different tunings (especially ridiculously low tunings), you can’t always go as low as you can because of string gauge or scale limitations.

So, get this: Vessel III from Sleep Token supposedly had their birth certificate leaked online.

The Australian government has turned its attention to the issue of supermarket price gouging.

Ah, breakpoints.

When scaffolding new projects or features, repetitive tasks like file creation and boilerplate code can waste valuable time.

Sometimes you have a request that doesn’t immediately return a response.

Ah, beef jerky – the quintessential snack that’s both a road trip staple and a gourmet delight.

OpenAI, the AI alchemist who once charmed us with GPT-3’s witty prose and GPT-4’s early brilliance, has stumbled upon a potent new potion: the Elixir of Unreliability.

Australians grappling with the rising cost of living have a new target: supermarkets.

Chess is an age-old game that many cherish for its elegance, simplicity, and depth.

Google has finally unveiled its GPT-4 killer, sorta.

Recently, I came across a product advertisement on Facebook called Ozzi Mozzie.

With its recent update, Google is creating a stir in the language model landscape, which incorporates the latest model, Gemini, into Google Bard – specifically Gemini Pro.

WordPress, by its very design, is a platform that offers a high degree of flexibility and customisation.

Unless you were somewhere remote without internet or news the past few days, then you would already be well aware of the OpenAI drama in which the board fired CEO Sam Altman, and president Greg Brockman lost his board seat (but offered to keep his employm…

As Google forges ahead with its controversial Manifest V3 changes to Chrome extensions, the tech giant’s narrative is one of enhanced user security and privacy.

Lately, you can’t scroll through your news feed without bumping into the term ‘artificial intelligence’.

If you’re using OpenAI’s APIs or considering integrating them into your digital toolkit, it’s essential to be aware of the recent changes.

After years of waiting and an unfortunate leak in 2022 that confirmed the existence of Grand Theft Auto VI, Sam Houser of Rockstar Games announced on X that a trailer would be released in December to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto—…

Neural DSP is a company that produces guitar and bass plugins, mostly known for their Archetype plugins such as Archetype: Gojira or Archetype: Nolly.

Let’s talk about déjà vu.

For quite a while, OpenAI’s GPT-4 model was up to date until September 2021.

In April 2023, I wrote about how Neural DSP announced the Cortex Control desktop application, allowing you to control your Quad Cortex remotely using a PC or Mac.

In the tech world, the first-mover advantage is a powerful thing.

I switched from using Vercel for my new web projects to Railway a while ago.

I saw my favourite band, Thrice, recently at their Brisbane show, and unlike other Australian tours, they did a VIP thing where you could pay extra to meet the band, a Q&A, and a couple of songs.

The prospect of an AI tool that could learn from my blog and writing style and then write like me was tantalising.

The realm of web development is teeming with choices, each technology vying for developers’ attention.

The Aurelia 2 Task Queue is a robust scheduler designed to address various challenges associated with timing issues, memory leaks, race conditions, etc.

In Aurelia 2, lambda expressions bring a breath of fresh air to templating by enabling developers to write concise and expressive code directly within templates.

As someone who’s spent countless hours behind the glow of my computer screen, weaving retro-futuristic textures and creating beats on FL Studio, music production isn’t new to me (even if I am not that good at it).

In modern web development, managing reactivity—how parts of an application respond to changes in data—is paramount.

Aurelia 2, a modern front-end JavaScript framework, introduces a powerful feature called enhance that allows developers to breathe life into static HTML by binding Aurelia behaviours to existing DOM elements.

Playwright is exceptional for end-to-end testing.

I have been working with the web for a long time now.

Custom web components have revolutionised web development by enabling encapsulation, reusability, and dynamic functionality.

Ah, the Neural DSP Quad Cortex, the proverbial golden child of the guitar modelling world.

Aurelia 2, the latest incarnation of the Aurelia framework, is packed with improvements and new features.

In Aurelia 2 the @watch decorator allows you to react effectively to data changes in your application, from simple properties to complex expressions.

Aurelia 2 has some awesome templating features that make creating dynamic and replaceable components a breeze.

Meta has released version 2 of its open-source Llama AI model and has caught many’s attention – but not entirely for the right reasons.

Since its launch, OpenAI’s GPT-4 has been the talk of the town, marking yet another milestone in artificial intelligence.

In the cutthroat world of web development, trends come and go faster than a blink of an eye.

Have you ever found yourself startled by the uncanny resemblance between the smartphone in your hand and that of your mate’s, despite them being from entirely different manufacturers?