25 May 2023

50 links · Thursday

Weekly Update 349

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Why I Fired Myself

Being a digital nomad, does not only expose me to picturesque landscapes, but also enables me to look behind and reflect.

The obvious final step

The title may be misleading, as I had to invent a new short term for the pattern that occurs in the code once in a while. Example first: During the construction of an XML file when you write an ele…

Shooting Unicorns

Shooting Unicorns - The parent company (playground) for housing Samantha Wong and Luannie Dang's startup ideas. We're coding towards financial freedom - one commit at a time. Our portfolio include Pory and Lotion.

Dealing with constant rejection ✣ S.Bistrović

For whatever reason I am being rejected, which can be a challenging and painful experience, I remain optimistic about the right opportunity.

Perilous Pitfalls of a B2B Marketing Budgets – Michael Bastos

Ah, the treacherous terrain of business to business (B2B) marketing budgeting, where countless dollars evaporate into the ether. Let us navigate the six most hazardous budgetary black holes:

Practice inclusive scheduling

When working as a distributed team, be mindful of cultural differences, time zones, encouraging breaks between meetings, and connecting as humans.

Always Bet on Geohot: Tinygrad Will Win

George Holtz (geohot) just raised $5M for tinygrad and plans to sell a $15,000 Machine Learning AMD Epyc box with AMD 7900 XT video cards. At first glance, this seems like a really risky investment into a low-margin commodity hardware company. AMD can’t compet…

All-In-One Search available in 17.6 - Visual Studio Blog

The All-In-One Search experience was first introduced in 17.2 Previews, and we’ve been refining its quality since. The new search merges code and feature search capabilities into one UI, so you can go to one place to find the things you need.

Windows Terminal Preview 1.18 Release

Welcome back to another Windows Terminal release! This release updates Windows Terminal to version 1.17 and includes all of the features from this previous blog post. Additionally, Windows Terminal Preview is getting an update to version 1.18 and will include …

How I became a software architect... (or not)

How did I get involved in software architecture & design? Do I think of myself as a software architect? Here are some insights about my career, which have he...

We Are Getting New Validation Types in .NET 8!

Check out my courses: https://dometrain.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick, and in t...

.NET Rocks! PHP and WebAssembly with Jakub Míšek

The power of .NET means PHP can run in the browser efficiently! Carl and Richard talk to Jakub Míšek about PeachPie using WASM. Jakub talks about how easy it was to deploy PeachPie, the .NET implementation of PHP, into WebAssembly, much like Blazor works. Then…

What runs ChatGPT? Inside Microsoft's AI supercomputer | Featuring Mark Russinovich

Get an inside look at the AI supercomputer infrastructure built to run ChatGPT and other large language models, and see how to leverage it for your workloads in Azure, at any scale.     Go behind the scenes:   -For how we collaborated with NVIDIA to deliver p…

Embed C# in the heart of the SQL Query Engine

Regardless of whether you are familiar with SQL CLR, or are looking to explore the world of opportunities it offers, this article is for you. Our focus will be on embedding C# code inside SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance engines. We will also talk abo…

Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure Data Studio

GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered pair programmer, is now available for Azure Data Studio to assist you with context-aware code completions, suggestions, and even entire code snippets. Get started today with the latest release of Azure Data Studio, version 1.44, b…

Windows 10 April update can cause data corruption

Starting with Windows 10 KB 5025221 I had issues in Outlook to attach files to mails. Drag and Drop did become unreliable and would sometimes silently do nothing. When I tried the Attach File dialo…

.NET Core–Monitor cache misses

Caching is an important tool in your toolbox as a developer. When used correctly in can vastly improve performance. However don't introduce ...