1 November 2022

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StarkNetCC Lisbon Main Stage

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My First Piano: A Story of Hurt, Healing and Joy — Jerome Leroy | Composer

Being a trained pianist brings its own interesting challenge when it comes to your instrument… because it’s actually quite rare that the piano you play on is actually your instrument. Keyboard players are amongst the few musicians who rarely choose the instr…

Reflection on being an engineering manager, 1 year after (Part 1)

I’ve recently completed my first year as an engineering manager - specifically on the Site Reliability team for CloudVision as a Service at Arista. In many ways I’m writing this for myself moreso than anything else - a way to reflect on this year that flew by …

Teamwork

In this essay, I lay out what I've learned about how software teams work and how you should communicate with the other members of your team.

Frontend is Rife with Bad Ideas

Front-end is a cornucopia of bad ideas. It’s full of frameworks, patterns, and technologies that make your job harder, not easier. Over the years, I have realized the hardest thing about front-end is picking up the pieces that “just work” and ignoring the nois…

KWin and tiling | Mart

Personally I haven’t ever been a big user of tiling windowmanagers such as i3, awesome and what not, is not much the workflow style I want 24/7 out of my desktop, but there is definitely something something to say about that kind of multitasking when it makes …

We need more nuance - Can's blog

The world is not black and white. It’s mostly gray. In today’s world of hot takes and cancel culture, a lot of people seem to pin others down based on one thing …

A Chance to Become Anti-Fragile | RKG

Many private companies are seeing the market and wondering what it means. Here are some thoughts on how to navigate this. (Anything useful is based on the experiences of my teammates at Sequoia and the incredible founders who have survived/thrived in all marke…

C# gets yet another keyword in C# 11

Let's take a look at C#'s new keyword, called file.Full video on file keyword: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm8eQenL7wA

Microsoft Previews Computer Vision Image Analysis API 4.0

Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of a new version of the Computer Vision Image Analysis API, making all visual image features ranging from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to object detection available through a single endpoint.

Understanding & Implementing Caching in ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core provides two primary methods allowing developers to cache information; IMemoryCache and IDistributedCache. Selecting the proper caching implementation requires an understanding of your application, your future goals, and the features of both opti…

A regular grid emerges

The code behind a lecture animation.

Building a URL shortener in 12 lines of code using Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Workers Cloudflare Workers is a serverless environment that runs Javascript. Basically, you just write code that handle HTTP requests, similarly to Node.js. The code is deployed globally across the Cloudflare network, which means it’s always running…