8 May 2021

23 links · Saturday

PYFL: Putting the fun back in functional programming

Haskell has been both a blessing and a curse for Functional Programming (FP.) A blessing because it has allowed many thousands to experience FP firsthand – by writing functional programs. The…

How I Estimate My Tasks

Estimating a simple task isn’t a problem. The problems arise when the task is complex and unclear. Sometimes I have to estimate complex tasks to measure the sprint time or other activities. To estimate such tasks I have developed my approach over time.

The Problem With Design is Designers

This painting by Rene Magritte is ironically titled Not To Be Reproduced.

Troll Factory

It's your first day at the new job at Troll Factory. How many followers can you get?

How to Learn Nix, Part 1: What's all this about?

Five years ago, I migrated my VPS from Arch Linux to NixOS. I had no idea what I was doing. I had never used Nix before. I thought I could figure it out. Five years later, I’m still running NixOS. And I still have no idea how it works.

My email workflow in Fastmail - Piet van Zoen

When I switched to Fastmail from Hey, there were elements of Hey's approach that worked well for me and I wanted to replicate. I found several articles about setting up a Hey workflow with Fastmail, but the suggested setup relied on creating custom rules for e…

iPad Camera Multitasking

A few months back I was surprised to see that Zoom had somehow been able to tap into using the camera during iPad Split View multitasking. This is an obvious feature for a videoconferencing app so...

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Release v4.0.0 · Blazored/LocalStorage

What's Changed 🚀 Features Blazored LocalStorage now dual targets .NetStandard2.1 and .NET5 Introduces ISerializer interface allowing developers to provide there own JSON serializer, if they pre...

Erratic ARP Behaviour | Ubiquiti Community

I'm having some really odd issues with my UniFi network (UDMP and various APs) that I believe may be ARP related. There's a longer tweet thread on it here: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1390782503774945283

dotnet-stack diagnostic tool - .NET CLI

Learn how to install and use the dotnet-stack CLI tool which captures and prints the managed stacks for all threads in the target .NET process.