Big problems at the timezone database
The last time I wrote about the timezone database on this blog, the database was under threat from a lawsuit. Fortunately that lawsuit w...
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Amazon.com: Holmes Mini High Velocity Personal Fan, HNF0410A-BM : Home & Kitchen
Amazon.com: Holmes Mini High Velocity Personal Fan, HNF0410A-BM : Home & Kitchen
Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem
This btrfs filesystem overview highlights some longstanding shortcomings.
UC reactor makes Martian fuel
UC College of Engineering and Applied Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu and his students used a carbon catalyst in a reactor to convert carbon dioxide into methane. The new processes promise to help scientists address climate change and provide fuel for a…
Why We Killed Our End-to-End Test Suite - Building Nubank
How Nubank switched from and End-to-End suite to a Contract and Acceptance testing strategy to scale to over 1k engineers
Themes | Oh My Posh
Oh My Posh comes with many themes included out-of-the-box. Below are some screenshots of the more common themes.
iPhone 13 Users Experiencing 'Unable to Communicate with Apple Watch' Bug With Mask Unlocking
Several iPhone 13 users have taken to online forums and social media to report that after receiving their brand new iPhones, they're experiencing...
What Color is Your Function? – journal.stuffwithstuff.com
I don’t know about you, but nothing gets me going in the morning quite like a good old fashioned programming language rant. It stirs the blood to see someone skewer one of those “blub” languages the plebians use, muddling through their day with it between furt…
GitHub Copilot AI Spawns Open Source Alternatives -- Visual Studio Magazine
After this summer's debut of the 'AI pair programmer,' some open source alternatives have been offered, and existing tools have been thrown into the mix as other options.
Health checks in ASP.Net Core web API
When you have an API running in the cloud it is important to know how healthy it is and if it might...