6 October 2021

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The Skill of Org Design

Building effective organisations is a remarkably useful, if rare, skill. This is what it looks like, what it consists of, and how to tell if someone has it.

My Challenge to the Web Performance Community

Performance optimization should be about making your users happy, not about making your tools happy. And if we really believe that, we should lead by example.

Proto.Actor

Proto.Actor Website

An Illustrated Tour of Wav2vec 2.0

Transformer-based neural networks have been revolutionizing the natural language processing field, but are only starting to become popular in the speech processing community. Wav2vec 2.0 is set to change that. Its architecture is based on the Transformer’s enc…

SRE Doesn’t Scale

We encounter a lot of organizations talking about or attempting to implement SRE as part of our consulting at Real Kinetic. We’ve even discussed and debated ourselves, ad nauseam, how we can apply …

The Climate Care Industry

An entire industry is sprouting around mitigating the effects of climate change, capturing CO2, and creating sustainable technology. We need a term that will help establish these efforts as their o…

How I Dealt With Intense Startup Anxiety

Your heart is pounding and your brain won’t shut up. Falling asleep is out of the question. What a horrible feeling. I distinctly remember the first time feeling this, when the first person I ever hired decided to quit, which oddly felt like being dumped. I wi…

I'm sorry · Discussion #39 · dotnet-foundation/Home

I'm Claire Novotny, Executive Director for the .NET Foundation, and I made a mistake this last week when I made a PR and merged it to a project without discussion. While I’d been involved in th...

Publishing Events from CRUD or Commands?

There are many different wants to create events in Event Driven Architecture. Events from CRUD or created from specific actions that have occurred. In some c...

Choosing the right wall anchors - FineWoodworking

Mario Rodriguez has gathered a range of wall anchors from toggles, to screws, to butterfly anchors and talks about how they work, where they are best used, and how to install them.

Razor Pages Startup in .NET 6

When you create a new web app using .NET 6 (from the new RC1 templates), you might notice something is missing. There is no Startup class. What happened to it? And how do you configure your new .NET 6 web app?

Facebook Outage Increased Developer Throughput by 32%

Yesterday (Monday, 4th October 2021), Facebook saw outages which took services including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp offline. At Haystack, we took a look at our data to see what impact this had on developer throughput (number of Pull Requests m…

Alleged Twitch data breach

Alleged Twitch data breach. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Moving Google toward the mainline

Two Google engineers came to Open Source Summit North America 2021 to talk about a project to change the way the company creates and maintains the kernel it runs in its data centers on its production systems. Andrew Delgadillo and Dylan Hatch described the cur…

Optimizely (Episerver): Split folder structure for blocks and media

Since version 7 or 8 of Episerver (now Optimizely CMS), the shared Blocks and Media have been sharing the same folder structure. Some people see a benefit with the shared structure, and some absolutely hate it. Personally, I have gotten used to it - but I was …

Monsters Weekly 225 - Azure Blob Lifecycle Rules

Azure Blob Storage supports lifecycle rules which can move your blob between different tiers saving you money. In this episode we cover how to set these rules up by hand and in terraform

How to get Windows 11

Today, Windows 11 availability begins both for new devices pre-loaded with Windows 11 and eligible Windows 10 devices. Windows continues to be integral to how more than a billion peo

Enable search and notifications for email addresses using the "+" syntax

A lot of people use a syntax such as troyhunt+foo@hotmail.com where foo is a unique identifier for the site. They do this so that if they begin getting spammed, they can identify the source their email came from. At the moment, HIBP treats this is a totally u…

Windows Package Manager 1.1

I’m excited to share some great news. We’re releasing Windows Package Manager 1.1. We’ve squashed some annoying bugs and added some highly anticipated features. The Windows Package Manager is being released to Windows 10 (build 1809 and newer) and Windows 11 a…

Azure REST API Guidelines Update

Providing APIs that are easy to use, fit to purpose, scalable, maintainable, and consistent make the difference between success and failure for your software. The guidelines help Microsoft engineering teams, and others building REST services, create APIs that …

Surface Laptop Studio

I’ve been in love with the Surface Pro since it first came out. I’ve owned every version that’s come out over the years, and it is like the device was made just for me: the perfect combination of power, light weight, battery life, and the ability to use it as …

Crocodile Shower Privacy Settings with Troy Hunt | Random but Memorable

Please take a moment to grieve as there’s no Watchtower Weekly this episode 🖤 😔. But never fear! Instead we share the privacy settings you should change with iOS 15, what's new with 1Password for Safari, and our exciting new integration with Fastmail. We al…

Rowy – GCP as easy as ABC

Build on the Google Cloud Platform in minutes. Manage Firestore data in a spreadsheet-like UI, write Cloud Functions effortlessly in the browser, and connect to third-party apps. Rowy is open source!