6 July 2021

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SideQuest - Short Term Tech Jobs

SideQuest is the best place to find and post freelance, part time, and contract jobs in tech.

C# Language Highlights: Records

Records is a new language feature introduced in C# 9.0. In this short video, Jasmine (https://twitter.com/paladique) and Kendra (https://twitter.com/gotheap)...

Observability and Iteration in Nutrition

For the last four years I was lucky to be coached and trained by Trevor Toy, a great friend and the best Personal Trainer I’ve worked with. I wanted to share with you one of the most important less...

A new macroeconomics? – J. W. Mason

[On Friday, July 2, I am taking part in a panel organized by Economics for Inclusive Prosperity on “A new macroeconomics?” This is my contribution.]

Chatcontrol: European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications

Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The Europe…

The Substack Narrative

In Breaking off the engagement Chris Best (Substack CEO) argues that ad-based revenue models are the root cause of rage on social media and that switching to a paid subscription model fixes it. Not a new idea (and also not one I agree with), but relevant since…

C# Language Highlights: Top-level statements

In this quick video, Cecil and Jayme show us how top level statements work in C# 9. Useful Links Top level statements tutorialWhat’s new in C# 9

C# Language Highlights: Top-level statements

In this quick video, Cecil and Jayme show us how top level statements work in C# 9. Useful Links Top level statements tutorialWhat’s new in C# 9

YouTube

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Console Do Not Track

A proposed unified standard for opting out of telemetry for TUI/console apps.

Stop using sp_hexadecimal & sp_help_revlogin - Andy M Mallon - AM²

Since I started at Stack Overflow, I’ve had the chance to see some of the interesting challenges with running our databases at our scale. My coworker Taryn Pratt (blog|twitter) recently blogged about fighting with deadlocks related to Stack Overflow for Teams.…

No More Movies

In my junior year of high school, I started getting into movies. My English teacher, who was a serious film buff, warned me half-jokingly: in film, you start with the best and make your way down to the worst. With literature, you grow as a reader and work your…

News from June 14th, 2021 through June 28th, 2021

The podcast bringing you the news about .NET, C#, Visual Studio, and everything in between, from Redmond and around the world.

How To Get Better at Painting - Without Painting Anything

John Wooden died in 2009. But if you're a basketball coach today, you're still living in his shadow. And for good reason. Wooden's record as a basketball coach for UCLA remains unmatched. He was notorious for his attention to detail, down to training his play…

Tech Notes: Leaving Google

I left Google this month, after 17 years working there. At the time I left, out of ~150k employees, only ~300 had worked there longer than me. I have many stories, and I imagine I might tell some of them on this blog at some point. Rather than try to fit every…

Converting the WeatherTwentyOne app from dotnet Maui to Uno

As the dotnet Maui team continue to churn out each preview, it’s great to see some of the showcase apps coming together. One of these is the WeatherTwentyOne app that David Ortinau has been working on. Whilst I’ve been doing a lot of work with the Uno platform…

A type-safe CloudEvent

A strongly typed implementation of the cloudevent spec that provides a safe way to use it in your domain layer

musicForProgramming("62: Our Grey Lives");

A collaborative series of mixes designed for listening while programming (compatible with other activities)