12 August 2021

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I paid for Instagram advertising so you don’t have to

I wanted to promote my band’s music on Spotify by placing a few adverts in Instagram. Here’s what happened. Tl;DR It works, but I found it expensive. In total I spent maybe $200 and pic…

Making a Marketing Page

In theory, every marketing website has the same basic job “Here’s what this thing is, here’s how it can help you.”

Moving beyond personal productivity

This is productivity in a nutshell: Write things down, then go back and look at them every once and a while. I'm questioning if going any further with productivity is healthy or holistically productive.

What is value?

> Undoubtedly, it's a buzzword. But the concept of

🖌️ Horton Hears a Whostyle

Back in 2018, Kicks Condor, sphygmus, and others came up with "whostyles." The idea is that when a website displays a post reply that was written by someone else, the reply is displayed using the style (i.e. CSS rules) of that person's website. A couple week…

I stopped sleeping, then I started hallucinating.

It was already March of 2019, I had promised myself I would do my taxes early this time. When you try to file your taxes on your own, you can see the invisible hand of Intuit making sure the process i

Internet of Snitches – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

Low Bandwidth Images

So, you’ve got a website that you want to make use less bandwidth. Maybe you’re paying by the byte for content delivery, maybe you’re worried about the environment, either way, let’s assume you want to make your images as small as possible. The obvious place t…

Don Teaches Guido F#

Tune in for a fun, interactive, and fascinating session with two programming language creators. Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, learns F# from scratch from the creator of F#, Don Syme! https://ak

Don Teaches Guido F# | Channel 9

Tune in for a fun, interactive, and fascinating session with two programming language creators. Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, learns F# from scratch from the creator of F#, Don Syme! https://ak

C# Highlights: Immutable Collections

In this short video, you’ll learn about Immutable collections from Leslie (https://twitter.com/lyrichardson01) and Brandon (https://twitter.com/TheCodeTravel...

Run EF Core Migrations in multiple databases with Azure DevOps

This is a follow-up post. Last year I wrote a blog post running EF Core migrations in Azure DevOps. And I received few comments asking about how to deploy the script to multiple databases instead of a single database. So in this post, I will explain how to dep…

Looking into Odin and Zig: My notes

I was pointed to the Odin language after my post about the Zig language. On the surface, Odin and Zig are very similar, but they have some fundamental differ...

Support Layers in Microservices Topologies

​One thing I mention frequently in the daily emails is the fact that microservices require a lot more operational support and development support than a monolith does. In a monolith, once you&#8217…

More devices, fewer CAPTCHAs, happier users

Today, we are taking another step in helping to reduce the Internet’s reliance on CAPTCHAs to prove that you are not a robot. We are expanding the reach of our Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood experiment by adding support for a much wider range of devic…

‎Microsoft Remote Desktop

‎Use Microsoft Remote Desktop for iOS to connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin. With Microsoft Remote Desktop, you can be productive no matter where you are. GET STARTED Configure your PC for remote access using the…

Mosh: the mobile shell

Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo. Like SSH secure shell, but allows mobility and more responsive and robust.

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 11 Release

We are excited to announce that an important update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This preview release marks the completion of a complete refactor of this module and is a major step towards being feature comple…

Tip 328 - How to use Azure Service Bus Topics

Modern applications are made up of many components and services. You might have a website, a mobile application, and an API that are being used to send data to your backend APIs. Sending this data directly to the APIs becomes a problem when the APIs are overwh…

StaffPlus Live

As engineers scale the technical track, they need to take on a whole new set of leadership skills.

Test Flakiness Demystified

Flaky tests add technical debt to mission-critical deployment workflows. Test Studio introduces simplified test debugging to help deal with test flakiness.

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Men's Everyday Sneakers

Casual, minimalist men's shoes made from premium, natural materials go perfectly with your everyday escapades. FREE shipping & returns, find a review, order online.

.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.

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Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome | Zapier

If you want to know, one hundred percent, that you're not an impostor, do something no impostor would ever do: out yourself. Here's why.