22 December 2022

30 links · Thursday

Best of Metadata in 2022

It is time to reflect back on the year. Here are some selected papers I covered in 2022. Production systems Amazon Aurora: Design Considerat...

Cats, Pi, and Machine Learning

IntroductionThere is a cat that wanders around my neighbourhood. I wanted to build something that would notify me whenever it came to my backyard. I thought to myself, if I can get a picture of my bac

State of OpenID Connect Providers

In the last days I tried to integrate multiple OpenID Connect Providers into my Applications (currently mostly Alphalerts and some dev projects) So far, I only got Google to work, and even this is currently limited to 100 Users. In this blog post, I want to ex…

Trading with BDDs

At work, we had a fun "hackathon" where we looked at finding the "best" buy/sell strategy in a stock history. Not shockingly, finding the single best option was easy. Extending to find the best trades expectedly slowed down everyone. I know that I am terri…

Not Getting Hacked

A lot of people get hacked or phished, and being completely secure is somewhere between difficult and impossible, especially if someone trying hard to hack you in particular. But there are several simple things you can do that decrease your risk a lot: Use…

Alone

Provided to YouTube by Reservoir Media Management, Inc.Alone · Fun Boy ThreeFun Boy Three℗ Chrysalis Records LimitedReleased on: 1982-03-20Artist: Fun Boy Th...

IEnumerable in C# - Code Maze

The IEnumerable interface is the base for all the non-generic collections that can be enumerated. It helps us iterate through a collection

Energy Geek Out 2022

End of the year, time for a geek out on energy! Richard chats with Carl about the usual modern power generation sources, including solar and wind, and a breakthrough in the drilling method for geothermal energy. The conversation dives into small modular reacto…

7 Tips for Building a Good Web API

Creating a good API requires some extra care. Check out in this blog post 7 tips that will help you create a good API in ASP.NET Core.

The problem with XAML

Regardless of how you feel about XAML, you'll have a very hard job convincing me it's the best it can be. What do I mean? There's not a lot ...

I want to be wrong about XAML!

I've been rethinking how XAML looks and is written. It's not controversial to say that XAML has its criticisms. There are lots of things tha...