19 June 2020

48 links · Friday

Why Figma Wins - kwokchain

Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relat…

The ugly truth

I am so excited to meet my old friend Vinay after a long time. It has been almost one and half year we spoke to each other. We worked together in one of my previous organizations and he is a close friend and kind of mentor to me too. We both got busy in our li…

The Wolf

You’ve heard of the 10x engineer, but I am here to tell you about the Wolf. They are an engineer and they consistently exhibit the following characteristics: They appear to exist outside of the well-defined process that we’ve defined to get things done, but t…

johang/btfs

A bittorrent filesystem based on FUSE. Contribute to johang/btfs development by creating an account on GitHub.

CCCXLIII - Muscle Sword

**Puny Hero:** Muscle Sword! Give me your power! > The Puny Hero becomes a Muscly Hero with a CHONK! sound > Muscle Hero leaps at a dragon **Muscle Hero:** HYAAAAH! > Dragon is stabbed with the Muscle Sword and every part of its body becomes covered in mus…

Join us live! - JuneteenthConf - June 19th and 20th 2020

Juneteenth Conference is a free virtual tech conference made for and featuring Black people in technology. The conference celebrates Black Excellence and promotes community for Black people who are severely underrepresented in the tech industry. We welcome any…

Olo - Xamarin Mobile Engineer

At Olo we develop an online food ordering platform used by many of the country’s largest restaurant chains, reaching millions of consumers. Chances are if you’ve ordered directly from a restaurant brand’s app or website, we’ve made that happen. Mobile ordering…

Code Maze Weekly #30 - Code Maze

There is nothing better after a busy week than to wind down, relax, prepare your favorite brew, and enjoy some quality reading material. Let’s see what’s new this week: .NET and C# Validation in ASP .NET Core 3.1 [wakeupandcode.com] Shahed covers basic of vali…

Quit Whining about Apple and Just Stop Using Them

Note: I have changed the name of the actual email company referred to by this story, simply for the reason that I’m not familiar enough with their service to feel comfortable contributing to all the free publicity they’re drumming up through this issue. If you…

dotnet/tye

Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and ...

Machine learning on Azure for baseball decision analysis

What-if analysis is a great use case for Azure machine intelligence techniques. Bart Czernicki, Principal Technical Architect with the Microsoft Machine Intelligence team, shows you how in his sample web app for baseball decision analysis based on ML.NET and B…

New Azure maps make identifying local compliance options easy

Countries around the world are placing more compliance requirements on organizations of all types, and customers want to more easily understand which compliance offerings are available in their…

How much do you need transactions?

The most famous example about the use of transactions is the money transfer scenario. As money is shifted from one account to the other, we want to ensure th...

How to setup Visual Studio Codespaces for collaborative use

In an ever-changing climate, we find ourselves working remotely, many organizations were not prepared for such a change.  There has been a vast cultural shift, but also a technical shift.  IT teams are now almost entirely remote, prior to that many teams did h…

Making your data residency choices easier with Azure

We understand that with Azure’s over 200 services, advances in architecture, and data protection promises, there are a lot of options available to customers. To help you make the right decisions, we have summarized the answers to your questions on Azure region…

AgileMapper v1.7 Released

AgileMapper 1.7 is now on NuGet with bug fixes, and some new options for configuring data sources.

Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014

I’ve been reading the news this week about Hey, Apple, and in app purchases. Many people have offered their takes on the situation, and I can’t help but feel déjà vu.

The Australian Dream

The remarkable story of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes. Through the backdrop of Goodes' journey, the feature documentary explores race, identity and belonging in Australia today.

microsoft/WinDev

A repo for developers on Windows to file issues that impede their productivity, efficiency, and efficacy - microsoft/WinDev

Let's Encrypt: Senior Software Engineer

Posted: June 18, 2020 Position Status: Open We’re making HTTPS easier for developers to use, we’re doing it at scale, and we need your help. We’re a first-of-our-kind Certificate Authority (CA). We make certificates available to anyone, for free, and we offer…

No to .io, yes to .xyz! — Yarmo Mackenbach

TL;DR: I openly urge all FOSS projects and startups to reconsider registering .io ccTLD domains, opting instead for truly generic TLDs like .xyz