13 September 2020

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The feedback loop of productivity | Blog

My attempt at rekindling the joy of writing by talking about the very thing that helped me write in the first place.

Ankit Gupta's Blog

Ankit Gupta's personal website, my portfolio, and blog where I share my thoughts and opinions on all-things software

Enable Learning in Technical Writing

My goal writing documentation is to enable a student to learn, give them confidence they can learn, and not just copy-paste their way. This is not easy and I’m still learning myself what is t…

Getting The Most Out Of Anki

Anki is the most popular spaced repetition software (or SRS). At its heart, Anki is just a program for making and displaying flashcards, but the flashcards are shown to you on a schedule – ideally, close to the same day as you would have forgotten the card, an…

Thoughts on giving feedback

A good, blameless feedback culture is essential for working together efficiently as it forms healthy relationships, fuels personal and professional growth and aligns us with common norms. Feedback is one of the cornerstones of company culture.

The Five Temptations of a CEO — cherif.ca

I recently read and enjoyed Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Temptations of a CEO . Although I didn’t care much for the fictional fable style in which it was written, I felt that the underlying lessons were powerful not just for CEO’s but for senior leaders in any…

Disrespectful Design—Users aren’t stupid or lazy

It’s a common narrative in tech to design products with the assumption that users are stupid and lazy. I think that is both disrespectful and wrong. The idea is rooted in a lot of research ar…

efcore/EFCore.CheckConstraints

An Entity Framework Core plugin to automatically add check constraints in various situations - efcore/EFCore.CheckConstraints

Code Maze Weekly #42 - Code Maze

Another fantastic week in .NET, there are plenty of phenomenal articles to choose from and read something new and exciting. Kubernetes, versioning, APIs, databases, XAML, Xamarin, and a lot of life lessons all packed in a single news feed. So sit down (lie dow…

Unix Time Stamp - Epoch Converter

Epoch and unix timestamp converter for developers. Date and time function syntax reference for various programming languages.

google/makani

Makani was a project to develop a commercial-scale airborne wind turbine, culminating in a flight test of the Makani M600 off the coast of Norway. All Makani software has now been open-sourced. Thi...

I Want to Fix Goodreads

I use goodreads a lot because I like to read books and want to find more books to read. This morning I was reading a thread on hackernews on Sarah Manavis’s ...