9 January 2022

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Practical Shell Patterns I Actually Use

Over the decades I’ve been using the shell, there are thousands of reusable patterns I’ve picked up from looking over others’ shoulders and googling. Unfortunately, I’ve for…

On immersion - Laurel's Blog

A couple years ago, I created this list: immersive: walking taking a shower sleeping teaching falling in love cinema life or death experience I was curious about these amazing parts of life that feel so meaningful — like portals, where time and space take on a…

Happy 10th Birthday, Bridgy!

Today marks 10 years to the day since I first launched Bridgy, my little IndieWeb side project to connect social networks and personal websites. Happy Birthday, Bridgy! I’ve always loved the …

Disambiguating the ‘Observable Universe’

I’ve seen a lot of confusion over what precisely the term ‘observable universe’ refers to. This post is an attempt to remedy that. In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expand…

When to cache in your Rails app

I’ve been working on Rails applications for over 10 years. In that time I’ve figured out some guidelines on when and when not to use caching.

Episode 30: Developer Productivity with (me!) Dan Clarke

Developer productivity is something I’ve been really interested for quite a few years. So I decided, rather than having a guest on for this topic - it’s one I wanted to cover myself. So in this first episode of the year - I’ve gone solo, and talk about the thi…

Accepting Raw Request Body Content with ASP.NET Web API

One ASP.NET Web API related question that frequently comes up frequently is how to capture the raw request content to a simple parameter on a controller method. Turns out that's not as easy as it should be. In this post I discuss how to natively capture the ra…

Cameras and Image Capture

Approved Cameras 90% of the total runtime of a final program should be captured on approved cameras. For nonfiction content, this threshold may be more flexible. Any exceptions must be discussed wi...

Salesforce to require MFA for all users starting next month

Salesforce, the world's largest customer relationship management (CRM) platform, said that customers must have a form of multi-factor authentication (MFA) turned on starting next month, or they won't be able to access their accounts.

Extending the AWS SDK for .Net

In this article we're taking a look at how to extend the AWS SDK for .NET, which can be useful for various tasks like adding in some custom observability components into the request pipeline.