23 October 2021

21 links ยท Saturday

Experiments with “AI” and Diet Logging

I recently fell into a spell of P.G Wodehouse novels. His style inspired me ^1, and I scribbled this essay to experiment with it. It’s an eccentric mix of a “true” story (heavily embellished for co...

Crates (existentials in F#)

An introduction to the crate pattern for representing existential quantification in F#.

.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI

Last week, our blog post and the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repo led to a lot of feedback from the community. First and foremost, we want to apologize. We made a mistake in executing on our decision and took longer than expected to …

Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot - Less Than 2 Seconds

This post tells about my journey on fast-booting a Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI). In addition to that, some optimizations are discussed that can be applied to a Qt (QML) application. At the end, we will have a RPI that boots from power-up to Linux shell in 1.75 seconds…

Good Security Habits | CoinMarketCap

We urge everyone adopt good cybersecurity habits, and to have unique passwords on every site they use.

RSS is Wonderful · Quakkels.com

Inspired by Web Rings from the 90s, I created a tool for serendipitous discovery of blogs called RSS Discovery Engine. Similar to how web rings work, I make the assumption that interesting blogs will tend to link to other related blogs, and therefore, linked b…

Friday Five: Ignite ‘21, Defender For Endpoint, More!

Sending Per User Notifications using Azure Functions SignalR Service Output Binding Jaliya Udagedara is a Developer Technologies MVP based in Auckland, New Zealand. Originally from Sri Lanka, Jaliya is currently working as a Technical Lead for a US-based softw…

Leaving Google

Last Friday was my last day at Google. This article is a reflection on the last seven years of my life, thinking about what was important and what I'll do differently in the future.

Signals and Threads | Language Design

Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those idea…