1 August 2022

36 links · Monday

The case against woke culture | Brian Armstrong and Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBPTFlpv31k Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Audible: https://audible.com/lex - Skiff: https://skiff.org/lex - BiOptimizers: http://www.magbreakthrough.com/lex to get …

.NET Data Community Standup - Intercept this EF7 Preview 6 Event

EF7 includes a variety of new interceptors and events, as well as many improvements to the existing lifecycle hooks. In this session, Arthur and others from the .NET Data team will dive into this new functionality, including examples for intercepting materiali…

Spotify wants users to pay for separate ‘Play’ and ‘Shuffle’ buttons – TechCrunch

Spotify is updating its app to address a long-standing user complaint with music playback — but it’s asking customers to pay for the fix. The company announced today it will introduce, at last, a separate Play Button and a Shuffle Button at the top of albums p…

How I regained concentration and focus

For years, I enthusiastically produced content: books, articles, blog posts, and talks – averaging a book and a half plus five articles per year. Since about 2020, my productivity has plummeted – leaving me totally frustrated. There were no external causes, ev…

Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers

After the recent announcement regarding WASI support in Workers I decided to see what it would take to get code written in Zig to run as a Worker, and it turned out to be pretty trivial. This post documents the process I followed

Raspberry Pi Zero vs MangoPi MQ Pro Benchmarks

The MangoPi MQ Pro has been compared to the Raspberry Pi Zero ever since it was announced but were we right to do so? Today we find out!

LINQ explained with sketches

Often times it is easier to have a nice illustration at hand, which explains you things the easy way. So let's do this for a lot of LINQ operations like Where, Select and friends. Of course a small explanation will be attached as well.

Concatenate Lists in C# - Code Maze

Code Maze - This article covers the four best approaches to concatenate two lists in C#. Find out which of them is the most performative one.

Episode 41: OpenTelemetry - with Martin Thwaites

In this episode, I was joined by Martin Thwaites from Honeycomb to chat about OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry (or OTel) standardises metrics, logs, and traces - allowing different systems and languages to be able to write telemetry data in a common format and be …

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code July 2022 Update

We are excited to announce that the July update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This release renames the “PowerShell Integrated Console” to the “PowerShell Extension Terminal” to align with VS C…

Kevin Can F**k Himself - Wikipedia

Kevin Can F**k Himself[a] is an American dark comedy television series created by Valerie Armstrong, who also serves as an executive producer. Set in Worcester, Massachusetts, the show explores the life of Allison McRoberts (played by Annie Murphy), a woman st…

Understanding Git

After working with Git for over a decade, we decide to take a deep dive into how it works, while Michael, Allen, and Joe apparently still don't understand Git.

Nuclear energy is clean – Collectifission

The argument is well known: nuclear power causes pollution with nuclear waste for many millennia. Our children’s children may not even know how dangerous it all is, they say. Let’s tackle this argument once and for all: nuclear waste is not an actual problem.