20 March 2021

31 links · Saturday

Surfacing Required Knowledge

When I first started this blog, I had it in mind that I'd only write about things that were discrete and verifiable. I wanted to avoid doing the bullshit calls of being an Intellectual in Silicon Valley, or say to casting entire industries through one reductiv…

Migrating from LastPass to pass – Zoned Out

I’ve been using LastPass as a password manager since 2012 and even paid for the Premium subscription, so I could access it from my phone. That specific feature later turned free, and has recently turned paid again. It’s not that I’m unhappy with LastPass per s…

Jeremiah Reid - Time Travel Is ******* Hard

For my fourth entry into the Seven Day Roguelike Challenge, I decided to go big. Time travel. Hundreds of years of procedural history. Procedural maps and biographies. Someone described the idea as "Dwarf Fortress Lite." In other words, I was trying to develop…

Beint vefstreymi frá eldstöðvunum

Vefmyndavél hefur verið komið upp á Fagradalsfjalli við Geldingadali þar sem eldgos hófst föstudagskvöldið 19. mars.

The Invention of a New Pasta Shape

For the past three years, Dan Pashman of The Sporkful podcast has been on something of a mission: to invent a new pasta shape. All

Umbraco Package Migration to .NET Core

Umbraco 9 on .NET Core As a member of the community team working on the transition of the Umbraco CMS to .NET Core, I've been involved in ...

Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore

Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore. Why do I say this? Well, if you’ve been rocking the iPhone SE 2020 you would know. What I’m saying is there a lot of UI glitches from ap…

Random Employee Chats at Cloudflare

We developed the Random Employee Chats application internally, with the goal of recreating the pre-pandemic informal interactions. Here's how we moved from a shared spreadsheet to Cloudflare Workers to automate the entire process.

Newsletter Week 11, 2021

Sergey .NET Continue with blog post in the blog series about .NET Core Worker Service. It will be about Messaging with Worker Service using Azure Service Bus. BlogsHow to Build an Email Sentiment Analysis Bot - Using Logic AppsLinkedIn: Anuraj Parameswaran Twi…

mathiasbynens/dotfiles

:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS - mathiasbynens/dotfiles

A Universe of Sorts

If xx is a number and x^\hat x is its approximation, then the are two notions of error: absolute errror: ∣x−x^∣|x - \hat x|. relative error: ∣x−x^∣/∣x∣|x - \hat x|/|x|. Since the relative error is invariant under scaling (x↦αx)(x \mapsto \alpha x), we will m…

What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App

I spent the last week building an App for the Shopify Marketplace. It was unlike anything I've done before on the Web. Knowing some of the things I'm going to share, before you start building, could save you some headache.

Release 1.0.0-preview10 · microsoft/reverse-proxy

This release supports .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0. See Getting Started. The Yarp.ReverseProxy packages are available on NuGet.org. Major changes and features: [Breaking change] Rebranded from Micro...

About pull request merges - GitHub Docs

You can merge pull requests by retaining all the commits in a feature branch, squashing all commits into a single commit, or by rebasing individual commits from the head branch onto the base branch.