20 May 2021

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3 life lessons from a board game

Games are teaching tools. a way to learn how to navigate a situation, while having greatly reduced prizes and punishments. losing cops and robbers doesn’t have as much prison time as bein...

The Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott Hanselman

The Hanselminutes Technology Podcast by Scott Hanselman - Fresh Tech from Fresh Faces - Deep tech talk from an inclusive perspective

Save Copies of All Data You Import

Working as a programmer today you end up writing a lot of plumbing code, gluing together systems under your control with external systems. Many times you have to build processes to ingest data from other companies. Sometimes you pull the data, eith…

You're treating IT like the wrong Organ

  I was having a conversation with a coworker at a former place of employment about the role of IT within the business structure and the eve...

Imports are Endorsements

When you import someone's code, are you endorsing them?

Factoring in logarithmic time: a mathemagic trick

When you have an interest in cryptography, and you occasionally browse reddit, you’ve probably seen something like this before. Someone creates a new post on r/crypto or r/cryptography, claiming to be able to efficiently factor integers or RSA moduli. This the…

Nyxt

Tested with Nyxt 2.0.0.

Slack System Status

Resources for real-time and historical information about the Slack service.

RavenDB Discussions on GitHub

From the very start, most of the RavenDB community communication was handled via the mailing list. Some members of the community mentioned that this workflow...

“I could rewrite curl” | daniel.haxx.se

Collected quotes and snippets from people publicly sneezing off or belittling what curl is, explaining how easy it would be to make a replacement in no time with no effort or generally not being very helpful.

Improve the performance of git on WSL2

I've returned to Windows after a year on the Mac. I built up pwsh and added a lot of tools, but I still need some Linux/MacOS ones, such as envsubst. Of course, WSL2 comes to the rescue, but you'll have to checkout the repo twice for Linux and Visual

The Mediator Pattern | Gary Woodfine

Mediator pattern is used to reduce communication complexity between multiple objects or classes. The pattern provides a mediator class which handles all the communications between different classes and supports easy maintenance of the code by loose coupling.

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Learn CSS

An evergreen CSS course and reference to level up your web styling expertise.

freenode-faq.md

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