25 October 2021

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I Don’t Know How To Count That Low - LessWrong

Edit: greetings Hacker News. This is a cross-post from my own blog, AcesoUnderGlass.com. If you enjoy this post, consider checking that out as well. Back when I was at Google we had a phrase, “I don’t know how to count that low”. It was used to dismiss norma…

Node-RED

The light-weight runtime is built on Node.js, taking full advantage of its event-driven, non-blocking model. This makes it ideal to run at the edge of the network on low-cost hardware such as the Raspberry Pi as well as in the cloud.

Using Vim for YAML editing

How to make Vim more friendly for yml editing

Choosing a cache

Today, I’d like to provide some help on how to choose a cache solution. I will organize it into two parts: In this post, we will list what features a cache must have and which ones it can optionally provide. Most criteria are general and can be used regardless…

Making a Game in Janet, Part 2: Judging Janet

In order to continue making progress with my little Janet game, I had to write some tests. Because even though I’d only just started, I already had a bug. (There is a piece missing from the bottom of this rectangle. There should not be a piece missing…

Waiting for apt locks without the hacky bash scripts

Tl;dr: If you’re running apt-get in a script and need to wait for other apt-get process to finish (i.e. you’re running into DPkg lock errors), set the DPkg::Lock::Timeout option (e.g. apt-get -o DPkg::Lock::Timeout=3 dist-upgrade).

Death of a Peer Group

Growing up on Utah’s Wasatch front, I enjoyed running along the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. The trail snakes along mountainsides, offering spectacular views of the valley below. One day, I noticed a plaque beneath a tall transmission tower just off the trail. …

Block Remote Content in MacOS 12 Mail.app – Josh Betz

MacOS 12 and iOS 15 introduced Mail Privacy Protection, which is meant to prevent tracking pixels from revealing when and where you open an email. This is a good change that improves privacy for most people.

Sudan woke up without Internet

Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access.

Gigabyte AORUS FV43U Review

The Gigabyte AORUS FV43U is a 43 inch monitor with a 4k VA panel and a fast 144Hz refresh rate. It's mainly targeted as a console gaming monitor, and it looks mo...

Women IC engineer mentoring ring

During this fiscal year I ran a women IC mentoring ring in the Developer Division at Microsoft. It was part of the women's mentoring ring program in our division. I've always felt a little sad when I looked around and saw very few women ICs at very senior leve…

Looking into convergent encryption

I’ll start with saying that this is not something that is planned in any capacity, I run into this topic recently and decided to dig a little deeper. This po...

Cloudflare Tunnel for Content Teams

See how we’re using Cloudflare Tunnel to share our technical writing with internal stakeholders for a faster, seamless feedback process.

A fake VS code, so you can browse live cricket score in your office.

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Collection Performance: Sorting Collections

There are several ways to sort a collection in .NET. Some of the sorting methods are part of LINQ. Let’s look at the methods that are part of the System.Collections.Generic namespace.

C# Records - The good, bad & ugly | Gary Woodfine

C# Records have been out for a while now and I purposely avoided jumping on the band wagon as all the other bloggers out there in proclaiming how amazing they are. In my opinion, C# Records have been out just long enough for developers to start using them and …

New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web

If you run any large public-facing website or web application on the modern web, caching your static content in a CDN or other caching…

The 2021 Shopping Spree

The Mathemachicken strikes again for this year's shopping spree, while Allen just realized he was under a rock, Joe engages "no take backs", and Michael ups his decor game.