24 October 2021

26 links ยท Sunday

How I failed 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

This is a story about me dreaming of building an online project that generates revenue, seeking financial independence and creative freedom. After five years and no success, it's still a dream. Let me tell you more about my failed projects. Planetoid (2015-201…

On impact-effort prioritization

For a lot of people, the impact-effort matrix is a quick way to work out what they should - or shouldn't - focus their efforts on. Thi...

what makes michael seibel special?

If you went through Y Combinator any time in the past 7 years or so, you know: office hours with Michael Seibel just hit different.

Assume you're going to win

Read an awesome blog post from swyx about meta-creators, which really got me thinking. With the proliferation of tech twitter, comes a whole host of distractions that engineer/builder/founder types easily get trapped by. You could call them distractions, or yo…

Community Banking and Fintech

How and why small, local banks power the fintech apps you use.

String Performance: String Comparison

This article will show string performance results for using ==, and Equals().

Ask dotNetDave

Do you have a question or comment for dotNetDave? Need help with your application or project? Want to hire dotNetDave to help your company with architecture, direction, code problems, code review a…

RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601

Comparison between RFC 3339 and ISO 8601 date formats

Episode 27: Visual Studio 2022 - with Kendra Havens

Not long to go until the release of both .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022! But if you can’t wait that long - the preview releases of both can be downloaded right now! In this episode, I was joined by Kendra Havens to chat about what’s new and coming! Kendra is a …

Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

[German]Brief information, which is already here with me since August 2021, but which I have not yet addressed in the blog. David Xanatos has pointed out to me that Microsoft is refusing to sign drivers for the new Process Hacker without giving any further re…

React Docs Beta

A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

Core - SurfaceR

You will need two mobile devices or Two Separate browser windows on a PC.