28 July 2020

53 links · Tuesday

Vulnerability doesn’t come after trust – it precedes it.

Brene Brown, a researcher from the University of Texas, became the “vulnerability expert” after she recorded a TED Talk  on The Power of Vulnerability 9 years ago in 2011. I remember th…

Conversations and Ideas

Conversations about ideas should help you understand what you think. They need more tension than a regular conversation but not so much that you're afraid to share nascent thoughts. The best...

Great CRO Tool or Privacy Nightmare – SystemTrap

The past few years have seen many different SaaS apps pop up and appeal to businesses. From CDPs to AI, to session replay, there have been many different advanced platforms marketers can add to their toolbelts. One of my personal favorite tools over the past f…

Jack of all trades, master of none

Back in the Renaissance, having skill in many different areas was seen as a good thing. But things changed. Movements such as the industrial revolution…

The Toxoplasma Of Rage

I. Some old news I only just heard about: PETA is offering to pay the water bills for needy Detroit families if (and only if) those families agree to stop eating meat. Predictably, the move caused …

github/roadmap

GitHub public roadmap. Contribute to github/roadmap development by creating an account on GitHub.

Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google

As Alex McDonald notes in this support request, Google has recently banned the old Usenet groups comp.lang.forth and comp.lang.lisp from the Google Groups system. "Of specific concern is the archive. These are some of the oldest groups on Usenet, and the depth…

github/renaming

Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories - github/renaming

Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database

Initially, I wasn’t sure whether to write about this migration project, but when I randomly asked if people would be interested, the response was overwhelming. This was a long, kind of boring, very repetitive, and at times incredibly frustrating project, but I…

IEvangelist/Blazing.Twilio.Video

A Blazor WASM video chat app, built using the Twilio SDK for .NET and JavaScript. - IEvangelist/Blazing.Twilio.Video

Chessprogramming wiki

The Chess Programming Wiki is a repository of information about programming computers to play chess. Our goal is to provide a reference for every aspect of chess-programming, information about programmers, researcher and engines. You'll find different ways to …

Fody/MethodDecorator

Compile time decorator pattern via IL rewriting. Contribute to Fody/MethodDecorator development by creating an account on GitHub.

Catalina - *all* web-browsers fail to open new pages after a few hours use.

I am experiencing the weirdest problem that I've seen in using Macs for nearly 20 years. I have a late-2019 MacBook Pro 16 with the latest version of macOS Catalina (10.15.4). The problem is this, which started about 3 weeks ago. 1) After a reboot, ev…

ongoing by Tim Bray · Not an Amazon Problem

The NY Times profile quotes me saying “We don’t really have an Amazon problem. What we have is a deep, societal problem with an unacceptable imbalance of power and wealth.” But the URL contained the string “amazon-critic-tim-bray” and the …

shirhatti/zocket

Development tool using socket handoff. Contribute to shirhatti/zocket development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gittrends lags: A Tale Of CollectionView and Garbage Collector

Previously on Game of Leaks I'm super interested by what is causing precisely the many GC collections. Will try to dig into this. https://t.co/qnrfFMSZjR— Jean-Marie Alfonsi (@Piskariov) July 14, 2020 So here is what I dug so far:) First I forked th…

The falsehoods of anti-AGPL propaganda

Google is well-known for forbidding the use of software using the GNU Affero General Public License, commonly known as “AGPL”. Google is also well-known for being the subject of cargo-culting by fad startups. Unfortunately, this means that they are susceptible…

Calling Generic Methods from Non-Generic Code in .Net

Somewhat often (or at least it feels that way this week) I’ll run into the need to call a method with a generic type argument from code that isn’t generic. To make that concrete, here&#…

Don't Judge XAML Based On Lines of Code - Nick's .NET Travels

For those following the on-going discussion around the future of XAML and specifically the use of XAML in DotNetMaui/Xamarin.Forms, this post is a follow on from two great posts discussing the options that are, or will be, available for Xamarin.Forms developer…

How GPT3 Works - Visualizations and Animations

(Live thread, will be updated with new visuals and polish over the next few days) A trained language model generates text. We can optionally pass it some text as input, which influences its output. The output is generated from what the model “learned” durin…

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