8 December 2021

58 links ยท Wednesday

The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications

After working on biomedical literature search, discovery and recommender web applications for many months I concluded that extracting, structuring or synthesizing "insights" from academic publications (papers) has negligible value in industry.

How to Spend Less Time on YouTube - Self control for addiction

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I think there's a lot of smart people out there dedicating their life's work to make others keep watching videos. Since YouTube's incomprehensible decision to remove dislikes count it's become even easier to waste time on worthless cont…

The Lost Venture Emails?

I can’t say for sure why the following emails ended up in my inbox. The emails appear to be correspondences within a particular venture capital firm, which I’m in no way affiliated with…

Creating personalised data stories with GPT-3

You can tell powerful stories with data, but so often we are faced with raw data (albeit beautifully presented), and are left to create our own narratives. My previous attempts at turning data into stories have been time consuming and underwhelming. In this po…

We will be retiring Alexa.com on May 1, 2022

Twenty-five years ago, we founded Alexa Internet. After two decades of helping you find, reach, and convert your digital audience, we’ve made the difficult decision to retire Alexa.com on May 1, 20...

Twitter Suspension

I woke up this morning and the @TrackerTrial account on Twitter was suspended. All the other accounts that I have made in the past were also suspended. This was the only note that I received. The @TrackerTrial account was the largest account on Twitter that sp…

Upgrading from .NET Framework to .NET 6

https://aka.ms/dotNETConf2021-GetdotNET6Learn how to bring your .NET Framework apps forward to .NET 6 to take advantage of the latest performance improvement...

New Blazor WebAssembly capabilities in .NET 6

https://aka.ms/dotNETConf2021-GetdotNET6With .NET 6, the underlying .NET WebAssembly runtime supports entirely new kinds of functionality, and can be faster ...

.NET Conf Local 2021

More Info: https://www.meetup.com/dot-net-learners-house-hyderabad/events/281553403/

Feature Design: ETL for Queues in RavenDB

RavenDB is rarely deployed in isolation, it is typically used in existing systems and is integrated into the overall system. One of the key ways by which thi...

Connection Failures with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 4 and later

After a recent update to `Microsoft.Data.SqlClient` version `4.0.0.0` I ended up not being able to connect to any of my SQL Server databases. Turns out Microsoft has made some default settings changes in the updated provider and these settings are likely going…

Why Cloudflare Bought Zaraz

Today we're excited to announce that Cloudflare has acquired Zaraz. The Zaraz value proposition aligns with Cloudflare's mission. They aim to make the web more secure, more reliable, and faster. And they built their solution on Cloudflare Workers.

Why Retaining Walls Collapse — Practical Engineering

In March of 2021, a long-running construction project on a New Jersey highway interchange ground to halt when one of the retaining walls along the roadway collapsed. This project in Camden County, called the Direct Connection, was already 4 years behind schedu…

Embedded Software Development in Visual Studio

We are happy to announce that we have added new embedded development capabilities to Visual Studio 2022 Preview. Used in conjunction with the new vcpkg artifact capabilities you can quickly bootstrap an embedded development machine and get started. In this pos…

HTMX With ASP.NET Core

With all the momentum behind frontend frameworks, it’s often easy to forget that server-side rendering (SSR) is a mature approach to delivering fast and reliable user experiences. Unfortunately, one of the most significant drawbacks to frontend development is …

You Can't Buy Integration

The usual build-versus-buy rules for applications don't apply to integration

Debugging at the Boundaries

Get better at detecting and preventing bugs by focusing on the boundaries in and around your program.

Should you Abstract the Database?

This article is inspired by a tweet that I thought would be a good topic for discussion: should you abstract your database?

Benchmarking F#6 Tasks

A lot of new performance-related stuff landed in the F# world recently. As well as the release of .NET 6, F# 6 was recently released, with built-in, highly-optimized "Resumable Code" Tasks. So let's measure it.

rockstar : home

Rockstar is a computer programming language designed for creating programs that are also hair metal power ballads.

NASA Returns Hubble to Full Science Operations

NASA has returned the Hubble Space Telescope to full science operations and is now operating with all four active instruments collecting science.

Gravatar Data Privacy

Information and FAQs on the October 2020 collection of data: how we handled it and what you can do.