20 January 2023

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星街すいせい - Stellar Stellar / THE FIRST TAKE

「THE FIRST TAKE」は、一発撮りのパフォーマンスを鮮明に切り取るYouTubeチャンネル。第284回は女性VTuberグループ「ホロライブ」の0期生であり、メンバーの中でも高い歌唱力を誇る星街すいせいが初登場。披露するのは1st Album「Still Still Stellar」のリードトラックであ...

*Calli Opens Suisei's Stream* 【Hololive】

Hoshimachi Suiseihttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5CwaMl1eIgY8h02uZw7u8AMori Calliopehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_qhgtOy0dy1Agp8vkySQg/featuredShiran...

Stoic Personality Disorder

Let me ask you this: Are the people who are enthusiastic about Stoic philosophy (including me) already stoics? I mean, are they stoics before they have read a single line from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus — or even Ryan Holiday? Is it possible to be a st…

Onboarding driven documentation

When starting a new software engineering job, it’s an exciting moment getting let loose on the code for the first time. I’ve been in the same job for about 3 years now but still remember the satisfaction of raising my first pull request there. However, whether…

Collaboration tips in the workplace

Opinionated list of collaboration tips in the workplace! Calendar sharing In a remote environment, it can help your teammates to know where you are located or what meetings you are attending. At a minimum, your teammates should know whether or not you are avai…

Code Maze Weekly #157 - Code Maze

Issue #157 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Top Picks Implementing CRUD operations with ASP.NET Core Web API and Mongo DB [dotnetthoughts.net] A clean and simple introduction to working with MongoDB in ASP…

New Features in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview Releases

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 1 in November 2022, and Preview 2 in December 2022. These new preview versions include several new features such as the Quick Add Dialog, Markdown preview support out of the box and colorizing editor…

Episode 114 - Statiq with Dave Glick

Dave Glick, a .NET developer with over a decade of experience in the technology, provides an exploration of the world of static websites. Topics discussed include the benefits of static websites for security and performance, the JAMstack and BAMstack models, a…

Azure OpenAI is now generally available

Early this week Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, and Eric Boyd, Corporate AI Vice President, announced Azure OpenAI Service generally available, which will soon include ChatGPT – the fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 built upon Azure AI infrastructure gone viral in t…

Roll with us at SQLBits 2023!

SQLBits, the largest data platform conference in Europe, is in Newport, Wales this year as a hybrid event from March 14 to March 18 with two days of full-day training sessions and three days of general sessions.  Saturday is a community day and is free for all…

2022 Akka.NET Year-in-Review and Future Roadmap

Author’s Note: Petabridge turned 8 years old this month and over the years I’ve only written a couple of articles about our internal processes for developing software and running an open source software business. In late 2021 we began using OKRs - “Objectives …

Property based testing in C#–Part 3

In this multipart blog post I want to introduce you in the world of property-based testing and how to do this in C#. In the first part , I...

The Journey to Code Mastery w/ Marqeta's CTO, Randy Kern

Randy Kern, CTO at Marqeta, thinks that every engineer should "go deep" - all the way to understanding the transistors if you have to. He implores us never to be satisfied with black boxes, believing that it's not only risky not to understand what your code is…

Amazon.com: Creative Pebble V2 - Minimalistic 2.0 USB-C Powered Desktop Speakers, 3.5 mm AUX-in, Up to 8W RMS Power for Computers and Laptops, Type-A Adapter Included and Extended Cable (Black) : Electronics

Amazon.com: Creative Pebble V2 - Minimalistic 2.0 USB-C Powered Desktop Speakers, 3.5 mm AUX-in, Up to 8W RMS Power for Computers and Laptops, Type-A Adapter Included and Extended Cable (Black) : Electronics

Release 2.0.0-RC.1 · microsoft/reverse-proxy

This release supports .NET 6.0 and .NET 7.0. See Getting Started. The Yarp.ReverseProxy packages are available on NuGet.org. Breaking changes We dropped support for .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0 as t...

Ruff: The First 200 Releases

When I first released Ruff, I wasn’t sure whether people would care about a faster Python linter. Today, Ruff is being used by some of the most popular Python projects on GitHub, including Pandas, FastAPI, Airflow, and more.

The Internet Transition

The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuiti…

Five minutes is ten minutes

This blog post explains why five minutes is actually ten minutes. And why it’s actually 15 minutes for most people.

The real Defense Against the Dark Arts

Letting someone else know you can be hazardous.   Intuitively, we understand this, and we behave accordingly. All but the most naïve or most confident (not mutually exclusive) are guarded; gui…

Scripting iTerm Key Mappings | Jeroen Janssens

Blog article by Jeroen Janssens. Jan 19, 2023. 13 min read. TL;DR To improve my iTerm+tmux experience, I’ve set up a whole bunch of key mappings. Rather than defining these manually, I wrote a Python script to generate the corresponding JSON programmatically. …

Death of the Author

In my last post I wrote about Johann Hari’s book Stolen Focus. The article sparked a really nice discussion over at Hacker News, where a user had this to say: Ideas should be judged on their merits, but based on previous behavior I wouldn’t necessarily trust J…

Huge Pages are a Good Idea (evanjones.ca)

Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual …