When best practice isn't the best - Dependency Injection and Optimizely CMS Some people live and breath 'best practice' development. I am not one of them. Risk is, in-experienced developers (or sometimes experienced) might use them just cause they are 'best practice' and not think more about it. Even when it turns out they are no...
The Potential of DuckDuckGo's !bangs: Supplementing Search Unlock the potential of the search engine you're most familiar with by combining it with DuckDuckGo's !bangs to save time and increase efficiency.
Authenticity and Acting Acting seems like the most inauthentic thing to do — like putting an external façade to manipulate the audience to get the desired effect. Most people learning to lead don’t associate acting with leadership. I balked when I opened the first chapter, “Pres...
Software Delivery Idealism There is a lot of idealistic rhetoric in the software industry. That’s not exactly new, and for the most part we’re able to look past the often quite absolute language (the “musts” and the “bests”), and remember the importance of context. But that stateme...
Perverse incentives are endemic Much of the job of a CEO is designing the incentives of your operating enviroment; this can be difficult, but doing it well is a superpower.
Netbooting a customized Archiso via Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) How do you netboot a self-built, customized Arch Linux ISO via PXE? Let’s find out!
Revisiting my two-year SF predictions Giving a self-assessment on predictions I made in the depths of San Francisco lockdown.
Removing all trackers from my website These past years I’ve grown to be more privacy-aware. And while this post isn’t about how I’m increasing my personal privacy, I’d like to talk about how I’m increasing yours.
Don’t just say ‘hello’ to me I was recently in a 1-1 with my new EM and was asked what annoys me at work. The one thing that immediately popped to mind was: ‘I hate it when someone just messages me “Hello” or “Hi, how are you” when they message me for something on Slack’ It became ...
Funding Open Source Next.js is a free open-source framework. The creators, Vercel, fund its development. How is this possible?
Computers Are Bad A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel printer capture device. This contains the line:
The “Build Your Own Redis” Book is Completed | Blog | build-your-own.org The “Build Your Own Redis” Book is Completed
Proxying Rainbow Six LAN for WAN with .NET - Turnerj (aka. James Turner) A simple journey of learning, debugging and building my way to play an old game with a friend.
How to Use SQL LIKE Operator With LINQ in C# - Code Maze In this article, we are going to learn how to use the SQL Like Operator with LINQ in C#. We'll see how to use different LINQ methods for that
DepthGuard. a.k.a "It seemed like a good idea at the time" Reviewing my biggest blunder as a software developer.
armstrong-distributed-systems/erlang-is-not-about.md at main · stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems Contribute to stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems development by creating an account on GitHub.
Length-based switch dispatch by jcouv · Pull Request #66081 · dotnet/roslyn Closes #56374 Design There are currently multiple strategies for emitting switch dispatches on strings: a linear sequence of string comparisons (when fewer than 7 cases) dispatch on the input's ha...
Night and Fog (1955) by Alain Resnais: Mahler Symphony No.6 ENG sub Same Video in 1080p !!https://youtu.be/fJ2m5Qj1eLI