24 March 2022

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Melb.NET April 2022 HYBRID Meetup | Meetup

Tue, Apr 5, 5:00 PM AEST: First **IN PERSON** and online event for 2022!!!! We’re so excited to welcome some of you back in person for this meetup as well as continuing to support our community onl

All The Music: the Megamix

Or a clickbait title: How I became the world’s most prolific DJ, using code.This week I stumbled across a cool project: All The Music.Damien Riehl (programm...

Get started faster with the new 5-minute Quickstarts

Dapr already has well-rounded Quickstart examples, so why reinvent the wheel? Two frequent asks we heard when using the Quickstarts were “How do I use this Dapr API?" and “Can you show me this in my favorite language?”. Fueled by this feedback, we simplified t…

NServiceBus.Extensions.Diagnostics 2.1 Released

From the previous post on building NServiceBus metrics, I've pushed a new version of the NServiceBus.Extensions.Diagnostics and OpenTelemetry packages: NServiceBus.Extensions.Diagnostics NuGetNServiceBus.Extensions.Diagnostics ReadMeNServiceBus.Extensions.Diag…

Faster. Better. More focused. Reading.

Did you know that your brain reads faster than your eye? We humans store learned words and so just a few letters are enough to ecognize whole words.

March 24, 2022

Finding the code that does the interface detection.

Cloudflare Radar’s new ASN pages

Autonomous Systems (ASes) are a group of routable IP prefixes belonging to a single entity or organization, and is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet

Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) Install - Easter Egg?

Exactly one week ago, I was testing something that required me to install the old Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2) on a virtual machine. I got part way through the install when a bizarre set of …

It's Not A Race

This election may be the last chance we have to turn this climate around. So we're going to do what we know how: make subversive content and spread it around the internet. We need to hire writers, producers and editors to make more of this between now and the …

Large-scale social engineering

Even as someone who is somewhat tech savvy I automatically think of hacking as ...

Episode 417 - App Service Diagnostics

Yun Jung Choi, a PM in the Azure team, give us details about a valuable feature of the popular App Service, that allows customers to perform a variety of advanced troubleshooting tasks right within the Azure Portal.

Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing — Spotify

Today, we are excited to announce a new chapter in our partnership with Google: a multiyear agreement that represents a first-of-its-kind option in payment choice and offers opportunities for both consumers and developers.   Users who’ve downloaded Spotify fro…

What language am I writing again?

Have you ever had that brainfart moment when you're writing code and forget what syntax you're supposed to be using?  An example is helpful: This is from a recent project that used React + Typescript + GraphQL + Styled Components which is a prime combo for thi…

Gifting Another 100x More Computations to the Physical World

Once for a while, we asked questions like: what can we do with more computations? When we asked that question in 2010, CUDA came along and Jesen Huang gifted everyone under the sun a GTX 980 or GTX Titan in search of problems beyond graphics that these wonderf…

Intro to Thread-Safety in Ruby on Rails

Ensuring thread safety is critical if you want to build a performant Rails app. Unfortunately, threading-related bugs are often sneaky and only manifest in highly concurrent production environments. In this blog post, we'll discuss code examples that are not t…

Keep It Simple – Maxim Fedorov

Work of fiction, inspired by The Configuration Complexity Clock. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or any production code is purely coincidental.

Managing time without grinding ⏱

A tutee of mine asked me today, “Sandy, how do you manage time?”. “Just like in general?” I aske...

Good vs Bad 1-1 meetings

The feeling you get from good vs bad 1-1 meetings, and some helpful questions to ask