7 March 2023

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I don't spin plates; I manage hot tubs - Deep South Ventures

👔 : “So tell me a little about what you do …” 😐 : “uh, I’m a domain investor, but tend to build on domains I acquire (vs flip, etc). I have 3 or 4 projects I oversee.” 👔 : “3 or 4 projects!? … sounds like a lot of spinning plates …” 😐 : ... Read more

Content curation as a way to level up communities

In this article, I want to discuss about community content curation. It's a practice that can truly empower communities. Subscribe to the newsletter Introduction All communities have domain-specific knowledge. For that knowledge to be disseminated within t…

The role of IT

In many, probably most, large companies operating a supply chain, the IT department has years of backlog. The backlog is made of a myriad of glitches, inconsistencies, or fragilities that could be fixed but aren’t. Besides creating vast bureaucratic overheads,…

Robotic Tendencies » Flathub in 2023

It’s been quite a few months since the most recent updates about Flathub last year. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year. I want to focus on:

Dead Code Is a Liability

I’m fond of recalling a comment made by a Senior Engineer I worked with as a junior staff member during a code review once. In my pull request, I had noted that a given test suite and the associated code weren’t actually used and working and so I was commentin…

Now That The Twitter API Will Be Extortion-Level Expensive...

Last summer, I got fed up with the atrocious way in which Twitter displays conversations (To wit: It Doesn't), and spent a few weeks going to a coffee shop before work to write my own vastly superior Twitter app. A few weeks ago, Twitter announced the free tie…

Why so many people need glasses now

Nearsightedness is on the rise worldwide. How did that happen?Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Over ...

Microsoft Azure Launches Cloud-Based Voice Gateway for Operators

Microsoft Azure recently announced the general availability of Azure Communications Gateway. This product lets operators connect their fixed and mobile voice networks to Teams Phone, Microsoft's cloud-based system.

Eye4Fraud SiteName values

Eye4Fraud SiteName values. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

What's New in Entity Framework Core 8

Entity Framework Core 8, scheduled to release in November 2023, brings new features and new improvements to features already introduced in EF Core 7. Notable features include: support for raw SQL queries for unmapped types, lazy-loading improvements and suppor…

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

Almost six years after our blog post titled "How Discord Stores Billions of Messages," we’ve changed a lot, and this means how we store messages has needed to adapt as we scale. Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provi…

Wolverine 0.9.13: Contextual Logging and More

We’re dogfooding Wolverine at work and the Critter Stack Discord is pretty active right now. All of that means that issues and opportunities to improve Wolverine are coming in fast right now.…

My Hardest Bug Ever

This is the story of the hardest thing I've ever debugged, from Crash Bandicoot 1.

The Problem with MTTR: Learning from Incident Reports

Tracking Mean Time To Restore (MTTR) is standard industry practice for incident response and analysis, but should it be? Courtney Nash, an Internet Incident Librarian, argues that MTTR is not a reliable metric - and we think she's got a point. We caught up wit…