17 February 2022

41 links · Thursday

The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes

In January our son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). This post talks about the unreasonable math needed to manage his T1D.

Diagnosing a VISCA camera issue

As I have mentioned before, I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last two years writing code for my local church’s A/V system. (Indeed, I’ve been giving quite a few user grou…

Quordle

Put your skills to the test and solve four Wordles at once! You have 9 guesses to solve all four words. A new Quordle available each day to solve.

Announcing .NET 7 Preview 1

Announcing .NET 7 Preview 1, the first preview of a major .NET version that will focus on app modernization, cloud native, containers and more.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 1

.NET 7 Preview 1 is now available!. This is the first preview of the next major version of .NET, which will include the next wave of innovations for web development with ASP.NET Core. In .NET 7 we plan to make broad investments across ASP.NET Core.

Reddit can't build a better search engine

Every week or twice a week, you will come across a post on HackerNews that Google is dying or Google is awful. There are some valid points to some of their arguments. However, I don't see Google going anywhere anytime soon. Yesterday, I came across a post t…

Line-staging (interactive staging)

Line-staging support, a.k.a. interactive staging is one of our most popular Git suggestion tickets. Visual Studio already supports staging files and now we are taking that to the next level by making it possible to stage chunks of changes in your files right f…

Building for the 99% Developers

Software development is not all clean code and automated processes -- and it never will be. Buyers and vendors both need to realize this.

auto-download.py

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Escaping Markdown Code Snippets and Inline Code as Markdown

If you write Markdown for code related documentation it's not uncommon that you need to create code snippets or inline-code blocks that contain the Markdown code block delimiters namely the back tick. If you need to embed a Markdown code block as documentation…

When I do TDD and when I don't - Code with Jason

Some developers advocate doing test-driven development 100% of the time. Other developers think TDD is for the birds and don’t do it at all. Still other developers go in the middle and practice TDD more than 0% of the time but less than 100% of the time. I per…

On the Origin of Species (of Machine Learning Models)

Assume you woke up one fine morning and decided to create an artificial intelligence. Where would you begin?  You could begin by reading up on all the relevant literature, the state of the art…

6 Months of Working at a Hypergrowth Startup

I joined Scale AI late last summer. It’s been a crazy experience — Scale is growing incredibly fast right now, hitting a valuation of over $7 billion last year and recently signing a $250 mil…

on training

It took me 4 months to get access to master. Two weeks later, I got access to the privileged user as well. Did this take too long? Should I have asked for more responsibility? It ultimately narrowed down to my experience and my team’s impact.

Don't point out something wrong immediately

This is not a post on a technical topic, but rather on a common pitfall for engineers – we like to point out something wrong the moment we see it. Understandably, we are very good at it. We are basically trained for it. When it comes to code reviews, or design

Matthias Portzel — The dead internet conspiracy theory

The dead internet theory came up on Hacker News again today. For those not familiar, the idea is that everyone except for you (and of course me) on the internet is just bots farming engagment numbers.I think one of the things that makes it so compelling is tha…