29 July 2021

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Technical Debt Is Not Debt; It’s Not Even Technical

Co-authored with Dr Paidi O’Raghallaigh and Dr Stephen McCarthy at Cork University Business School as part of my PhD studies, and originally published by Cutter Consortium’s Business Agility …

Some career advice.

One unexpected perk of publishing a book is that folks start to ask you questions about all sorts of loosely related things. One pretty common thread has been around career advice, I’ve written up most of my advice for easier reusability. Some of the ideas are…

The Illustrated Wav2vec

Wav2vec is a speech encoder model released by the Facebook AI team in late 2019. It quickly became popular in the speech processing community as it enabled new state-of-the-art performance for various speech tasks like automatic speech recognition or emotion r…

Having fun With HTML & CSS

Hello Everyone, lately I have been keeping myself busy with learning HTML and CSS. The things I have been able to make while learning it are great. So far, I've learned about Divs and how they're like a container that you can store other elements in,...

The Itanic Has Sunk

Intel's once-vaunted Itanium architecture official died today.

Nobody gives a hoot about groupthink

People want what’s bad for them; managers want what’s bad for the organisation. Many in software development like to pretend that management is an elite kind of human being. The kind who does their job every day with a laser focus on rational organisational im…

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Episode 387 - Azure Arc

Episode 248 - Updates from Ignite 2018A whole bunch of Azure updates were announced at Ignite so Cynthia, Cale and Sujit try to cover as m...Episode 316 - SAP on AzureMicrosoft Cloud Solution Architect, Marc Böhnke, gives us the low-down on the partnership bet…

Domain-Driven Refactoring: Extracting Domain Services

Posts in this series: IntroProcedural BeginningsLong MethodsExtracting Domain ServicesIn my last post, we looked at the Compose Method refactoring as a means of breaking up long methods into smaller ones, each with an equivalent level of granularity. This is t…

13229 Southview Ln, Dallas, TX 75240 | MLS #14567023 | Zillow

For sale: $989,000. A property unlike any other! With walls, flooring, and ceiling made of concrete, this property can serve as the perfect storage spot for large wine collections, art collections, multiple cars, as well as serving as the ultimate safe house. …

Reconnected — Real Life

Decentralizing the internet alone won’t lift it above politics or save it from corporate co-optation

1998: Photopia

Some moments change everything. The game that forever changed the conversation about what interactive fiction could be.

Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?

We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message gimme gimme gimme in stderr, which wasn't expected. Why are...

Cloudflare's Athenian Project Expands Internationally

Due to the growing trend of cyberattacks targeting election infrastructure, election security is not a US-specific issue. Today, we are extending our security tools to a range of election entities around the world.

Calculus Made Easy

Calculus Made Easy is a book on calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject.

Better React Components with TypeScript Union Types

TypeScript can enhance the experience of developing React components. However to fully represent the types of some dynamic components, we need to harness the power of union types. This article examines an example where union types improves our component typing…

Azure Service Fabric 8.1 Release

Azure Service Fabric 8.1 is now available! We are excited to announce that 8.1 release of the Service Fabric runtime has started rolling out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK and Service Fabric …

Dapr v1.3 is now available

We are excited to announce the release of Dapr v1.3! This is the third minor version update since the announcement of Dapr v1.0. Release highlights If you’re new to Dapr, familiarize yourself by visiting the getting started page. Service Invocation Added grpc…

.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.