18 October 2022

55 links · Tuesday

What you Need to Know

Matt Asay’s piece today about the skills shortage in cloud got me to thinking about what constitutes the required knowledge to work on various projects, and how much implicit knowledge is bound up with any given “single” technology. The cloud has a people pro…

Why study algorithms?

In this post, we will look at a task dreaded by many: getting better at solving algorithmic challenges. Some think it’s worthless, others feel rage about the...

Sending UDP Messages in Node.js Without DNS Lookups

<p>At work, I recently inherited a node service that was sending hundreds of metrics to DataDog using the <a href="https://github.com/brightcove/hot-shots">brightcove/hot-shots</a> StatsD client. I noticed the node service was making a very large number of cal…

Lets Talk About Trains – Ashton Kemerling

Last week1 Casey had a blog about High Speed Rail (HSR), and it triggered my worst impulse: my need to argue on the Internet. Casey suggested that I write my own post rather than just being cranky in his comments, and while my initial instinct was to continue …

labour of love

The concept of “work” is a Rorschach test, an inkblot that you can project pretty much anything onto. There are definitions that speak of a meaningless Sisyphean grind inside an oppressive and cruel economic system designed to extract the maximum possible shor…

Website Fidelity

Kyle Simpson has a talk titled “FOUC, and the Death of Progressive Enhancement” wherein he suggests the idea of building websites in layers of fidelity instead of layers of technology.

Photoshop for text

When I think about editing images, a vast array of options come to mind: contrast, saturation, sharpen, blur, airbrush, clone stamp, etc. Even basic image ed...

HIBP Login check - Apps - App Store

The Nextcloud App Store - Upload your apps and install new apps onto your Nextcloud

Rockin’ the Code World: Special Guest Stephen Toub

Join me on Saturday, October 22h, 2022 at 10:00 PST on C# Corner for show #68 where my very special guest will be Stephen Toub, Partner Software Engineer @ Microsoft. I have been trying to get Step…

Developer Community Keynote: The thing about burnout

Let's talk about burnout: the symptoms to look for and actions you can take.Speaker: Ashley WillisWatch more:All sessions from Google Cloud Next → https://go...

Developer Community Keynote: The thing about burnout

Let's talk about burnout: the symptoms to look for and actions you can take.Speaker: Ashley WillisWatch more:All sessions from Google Cloud Next → https://go...

.NET Conf 2022

Join the .NET Conf 2022 free virtual event November 8-10 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!

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Join us at QCon San Francisco next week

We’ll be in QCon San Francisco next week (Oct 24 – 26), we’ll be very happy to meet you in person.We are going to show off some of the new features in RavenD...

The UNIX Pipe Card Game

This game assumes the parent knows the basic unix commands: cat, grep, tail, head, wc, sort, uniq. The parent should show also show those commands in action the computer as well, if you do not have any UNIX system you can use jslinux in your browser.

Announcing MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio (Public Preview)

Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a widely used tool among developers and administrators, providing the ability to work with multiple databases across data platforms and cloud deployment models, and to perform the most common tasks on all your databases from a single…

Change schema name in Entity Framework Core

This post is about how to change schema name in EF Core. By default when we are running EF Core migrations, EF Core will create tables in the default dbo schema. We can change it with fluent API and using attributes.

Generate searchable PDFs with Azure Form Recognizer

PDF documents are widely used in business processes. Digitally created PDFs are very convenient to use. Text can be searched, highlighted, and annotated. Unfortunately, a lot of PDFs are created by scanning or converting images to PDFs. There is no digital tex…