Programming

You can increase your app's performance drastically with just a couple of tweaks! — Flutter 3.10 is finally available, and it has a long-awaited feature (at least for me). I think using MediaQuery as an InheritedModel is one of the most important improvements in Flutter. Let me tell you why! Example

Unleash the lion. — Summarizing text is one of the many tasks ChatGPT is extremely good at. Give it a piece of content and ask for a summary. You will be surprised how quickly it responds with a well-written summary. But do not just ask for a summary. By customizing your prompt, you can…

Introduction to decorators in Python — Decorators in Python allow us to add new attributes to a method, function, or class without affecting the existing ones. This makes the code you create cleaner and more readable, as well as more maintainable. Function Inside Other Function It is possible to define a function inside another function in Python. In this example…

An unsolved mystery in combinatorial number theory — Imagine 8 runners on a circular track of 1 unit length all running at different constant speeds and all starting from the same place. Will each runner be at least 1/8 units of the track away from every other runner at some point in time? Will each runner eventually become…

Understand How Android Support for Older Android SDK Made Possible — Imagine if you need to use LocalDate.now() for your App, and you need to support older than Android SDK 26 version, you will not have the code working by default. If you put on your compiler, it will warn you as Call requires API level 26 (current min is 12)…

Unauthorized Access and Data Leakage via Union-Based SQL Injection — Summary: This vulnerability allows an attacker to run arbitrary SQL queries on the application’s database, which might result in unapproved access, data leaking, or even total system penetration. The technical information about the vulnerability, its effects, and suggested countermeasures are included in the report that follows.

Fine-tuning models with billions of parameters is now possible on consumer hardware — Most large language models (LLM) are too big to be fine-tuned on consumer hardware. For instance, to fine-tune a 65 billion parameters model we need more than 780 Gb of GPU memory. This is equivalent to ten A100 80 Gb GPUs. In other words, you would need cloud computing to…

Redefine the way you work with spreadsheets. — The increasing number of plug-ins has illuminated the power of ChatGPT, or other LLMs. These plug-ins enable integration of the OpenAI API with a variety of tools, thereby facilitating the use of models that OpenAI offers, including GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. One of the tools that can be enhanced with the…

What is the best tech stack for indie hackers — solopreneurs or small/medium teams? What software framework should you choose? What database? Should you use old-school MVC-style frameworks or a new and fancy JavaScript-based one? In this post, together, we will go through all these questions and try to select…