28 April 2023

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Economic disruption means more Creators

Economic disruption means more Creators It’s difficult to avoid doom and gloom in finance reporting at the moment whether it is bank collapses or rising interest rates we seem to be heading towards…

Maybe Great — No Idea Blog

You have a great idea for a software project. But… will it work? Is it actually a great idea?

Great and terrible mindsets are contagious

One thing that I find so unique about Spotify since I joined was that everyone seems so relentlessly collaborative. It was a breath of fresh air, but it took me for a loop, I kept wondering what was in the water that made everyone so supportive of one another.…

Just Works For Me

If there would be some absurd world where I would be able to choose two pieces of the common vocabulary that should just vanish, it would be "just" and "works for me." We, folks in tech, got way too comfortable throwing these around.

SQL Is All You Need

Our lives would be way easier if SQL and databases were more that just tools to insert and retrieve data. Let's play with the idea of building a machine learning algorithm by just using SQL and ClickHouse

The Growing "Contentful" Gap - Web Performance Consulting

You may know, if you’ve been following along, that Chrome shipped some changes to how they define “contentful” for Largest Contentful Paint—they now look at the level of entropy for an image (measured in bits per pixel) to see if it’s above a certain threshold…

Episode 53: We Are .NET - with Tim Cadenbach and Matthias Jost

In this episode, I was joined by both Tim Cadenbach and Matthias Jost to chat about the exciting new .NET community - We Are .NET! At its core, it’s a community portal aggregating and presenting videos, blogs, twitch, and other feeds of any creator with .NET c…

.NET R&D Digest (April, 2023)

This issue includes bits of stories, concurrency, diagnostics, artificial intelligence, security, operating systems, performance, tools and not surprisingly – .NET.

Beautiful Branchless Binary Search

I read a blog post by Alex Muscar, “Beautiful Binary Search in D”. It describes a binary search called “Shar’s algorithm”. I’d never heard of it and it’s i…

Code Maze Weekly #170 - Code Maze

Issue #170 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Top Picks 13 Libraries in ASP.NET Core Every Developer Should Know About [codingsonata.com] Some of the extremely helpful libraries we should at least be familia…

Episode 121 - A .NET Discussion with Isaac Levin

.NET Developer Advocate at AWS Isaac Levin and Jamie Taylor cover a wide range of topics that are essential to any tech professional. They discuss the importance of focusing on business value, using existing tools and libraries, the need to support open source…

...and we're back

It's been a little bit... but James, David, and Matt are back with the latest .NET MAUI and Azure news!

Introducing Open Source Thursdays

Looking to dive into open source in 2023? Interested in contributing to real world solutions? We're launching a series to help you understand the nitty-gritty of open source and go on to begin contributing. Introducing Open-Source Thursdays This series is led…

Performance Excuses Debunked

For the complete article, including links to the source material, see https://computerenhance.com/performance-excuses-debunked