6 July 2021

55 links · Tuesday

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.]

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

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…

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…

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)