22 July 2021

53 links · Thursday

Event Driven Systems: Bringing Order to Chaos

I’m hosting a free 1-hour webinar on August 18, 2021 that is titled Event Driven Systems: Bringing Order to Chaos. This webinar is for you, if: You’re contemplating MicroservicesYou alr…

How I Manage My Knowledge

This is an overview of the tools and software I use to maintain and index of my knowledge and life in an efficient and shareable way.

Advanced Error Handling in OCaml

In a previous blog post, we discussed using an OCaml feature called polymorhpic variants for error handling. Here, let’s discuss some more advanced forms of this error-handling approach: returning multiple errors, performing error recovery, as well as handling…

Disrespectful Design, Part II

What can you do, as a builder, if your job seems to require to employ disrespectful design patterns? What is Disrespectful Design First, it’s worth rehashing what Disrespectful Design is. I t…

Getting banned from Twitter for no reason

When I joined Twitter in May 2012, I was unsure what I could get out of it. Today, I can say that I was exposed to many tech folks and ideas that I would have never heard of without Twitter. The last three jobs I had came from the same

The Nature of Venture

As the crypto industry matures, the venture industry is finding its footing unbalanced as venture capitalists experience the rug being pulled out from underneath them. These are the warning signs of venture’s next evolution.

Dynamic bitmaps | PixiEditor

Dynamic bitmap is a solution which made PixiEditor work multiple times faster, decreased RAM usage 10 times, and solved memory leak problems. This article will explain what it is and how it works.

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." Or is it?

Six years ago I read this sentence by Donny Miller and became obsessed with it. “In the age of information, ignorance is a choice”. This is the age of information. I felt empowered, inspired, and most of all, I thought it was true as well. I am a living exampl…

SpaceX's Starlink Review - Four months in

SpaceX's Starlink internet service uses satellites in low-earth orbit to provide high-speed Internet to underserved parts of the world, especially places without easy access to cable or fiber.

.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.

.NET Conf: Focus on F#

Join the .NET Conf free virtual event July 29 to learn about F#. Mark your calendar!

Akamai Edge DNS and GTM Status

Welcome to Akamai Edge DNS and GTM's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

Domain-Driven Refactoring: Long Methods

Posts in this series: IntroProcedural BeginningsLong MethodsIn the last post, I walked through the main, immediate code smell we saw of a long method, and I would classify this method as long: public class AssignOfferHandler : IRequestHandler<AssignOfferReq…

The case of the strange NT-style path that was discovered by SearchPath

A customer reported that the Search­Path function was returning an NT-style path, which is not something their program (an IIS CGI handler) could deal with. Why are they getting an NT-style path? The problem was not reproducible when run under a debugger,

Introducing Workers Usage Notifications

Today we’re excited to launch Workers usage notifications that proactively send relevant usage information directly to your inbox.

Open Source Alternatives

Find open source alternatives to popular softwares. Open Source for Business Communication, Project Management, CRM, Video Conferencing, Scheduling & more.

The hidden performance trap of Regex in .NET

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Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25 - Internet Archive Blogs

As a young man, I wanted to help make a new medium that would be a step forward from Gutenberg's invention. By building a Library of Everything in the digital age, I thought the opportunity was not just to make it available to everybody in the world, but to ma…

Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 14 is here!

Lots. We encourage you to read the complete change notes for BBEdit 14.0. (We spent a lot of time writing those notes, so it would be great for someone to read them. Be that someone.)