5 March 2021

42 links · Friday

Colorista - BuiltWithDot.Net

I was inspired to build Colorista after seeing a lack of easy-to-color coloring books with ability to paint with material brushes. It is incredibly funny to color not only with regular flat colors but also with metal, glass, etc. Thus the app was created. C…

CloneTfsVariableGroup - BuiltWithDot.Net

When using Variable Groups one sometimes wants to clone complete grous of variables for different builds, deployments or tasks. There are some tools avaiable but I had a hard time finding an easy and simple tool to fulfill my needs. This tool works as a do…

Taming the WSL 2 Resource Monster

I've switched all of my Docker and *nix usage to use WSL 2 for a while now, and largely have been free of any issues/problems. That is, until recently, when I've been working on speeding up my team's production Docker image builds (another story). This work he…

Atlas: Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform

Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests per sec…

Bring Your Own Client

Just a little note about the main problem I'm pondering these days...

eyal0/valgrind-false-positive

A deep investigation into a valgrind false-positive that took me like 15 hours to figure out. - eyal0/valgrind-false-positive

PaletteBook - BuiltWithDot.Net

What inspired me to make this project was with a problem I had with seeing colours and gradients online that I thought would be great to use in my designs but I never found a solution that made it easy to note these colours down in a collection so I made my ow…

The Teams Dashboard: Finding a Product Voice

Users love products whose voices they recognize. Here’s how we created a voice for the Teams Dashboard, and how we’re working to make our user’s experience more intentional and consistent.

EISK - BuiltWithDot.Net

ASP.NET Core templates with simple use cases to build scalable web api with architectural best practices (DDD, Onion Architecture etc). EISK makes it easy to write scalable and secured web api on top of Microsoft's new cutting edge .net core technologies. …

dotnet/maui

.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop. - dotnet/maui

Empowering every developer to innovate with Azure

As developers, we are the builders of our era, creating the ideas and writing the code that helps organizations digitally transform. We pioneer innovation that disrupts countless industries and help businesses endure tough times.

Non-JavaScript

We have two non-JavaScript versions of our search results, which come up automatically for some browsers that don't work with the regular JavaScript version.

statusmonitor - BuiltWithDot.Net

Statusmonitor is a web app that monitors 3rd party status pages in a single dashboard with Slack notifications. 💡How and Why? With more and more software products that rely on 3rd party services and API's, knowing when they are experiencing issues or down…

The Shape of Tests - sulami's blog

Many tests for an operation iterate over a mapping of different inputs to expected outcomes. By looking at the tests for a single operation as the same test with different inputs and output expectations, we can start to question how we should model those tests…

How I Got My Jobs

This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive diary of my job-seeking. My personal career journey is not generalizable to everyone’s situation, and I’m limiting my sharing to job offers I ultimately received and accepted. First job post-college My first job after col…

The Missing Piece for Self-Taught Developers | Mike Tobias

Learning Choosing a path in software development can be difficult. There are a wide variety of paths available, depending on your preference and education. My own path seems to be more common, from what I’ve seen scrolling through the internet lately. I was se…

How to IPO as an SEO - Jackie Chu

I’ve been lucky to IPO with two incredible companies – Square, a global payments company in November of 2015 and in May of 2019, Uber. There’s basically no guidelines for how to manage your IPO as an SEO because it’s so uncommon. Last year (in the age of tech …

how long

People routinely ask me how long do you see yourself living in a van for so let's unpack that question shall we?