13 June 2023

40 links · Tuesday

What Stack Overflow is telling employees about the strike

I recently received two pieces of internal Stack Overflow communication about the "moderator action" that started on June 5. Obviously I'm no longer an employee by Stack Overflow, so these documents have been leaked to me. It's natural to wonder who leaked the…

What happened to Tandem (virtual office)

Originally posted in Bookface (YC forum) as "Shutdown Bookface (kind of): Tandem S19 (virtual office)" tldr: We didn’t find a venture-scale market, perhaps because most people value the autonomy of remote work more than they miss the quick-syncs and high-pa…

Understanding Functions and Actions

Hi there! Today we are going to talk about the Func and the Action in C#. We will see what each of them are and how to use them, through some examples.Chapt...

Children of Doom 1998: Half-Life

1998 sure did happen! And there were video games all up in it! So let's talk about way too many of them!It's weird to have watched this series change: what ...

Aaron Gustafson

Aaron Gustafson, web standards and accessibility advocate, shares his evolution from early internet user to champion of progressive enhancement—and how we can all work to create a more inclusive di...

Wolverine’s Runtime Architecture

I’m working up the documentation website for Wolverine today, and just spent several hours putting together a better description of its runtime architecture. Before I even publish the real th…

Children of Doom 1998: Half-Life

1998 sure did happen! And there were video games all up in it! So let's talk about way too many of them!It's weird to have watched this series change: what ...

Entering alpha stage

Today marks the day when the project enters the alpha phase. This has some implications, though it is not a release per se, considering Chimera is a rolling distribution; let’s take a look at what it means for potential users and contributors.

Integer compression: Understanding FastPFor

The FastPFor is an integer compression algorithm that was published in 2012 initially. You can read the paper about it here: Decoding billions of integers pe...

Weekly 0063

Monday Today I spent the entire day in the office with my colleagues. Every month we spend...

An America-less Internet

Nine out of the ten most visited websites in the United Kingdom are those operated by US organisations. The same cannot be said for the flip side. There are zero UK-operated websites found in the US’s top 50. Our accents are being adopted, but our websites are…

How does List work under the hood in .NET?

A List is one of the most used data types in .NET. You can dynamically add elements without taking care of how that happens. But do you know what is going on under the hood?

How to detect heap allocations

A few weeks ago I talked about static anonymous functions and how they can help to limit the number of heap allocations when using lambdas. ...

15" MacBook Air M2 Review: The Obvious Thing!

The bigger MacBook Air made too much sense.15" M2 MacBook Air: https://geni.us/yDeBrV1MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.comTech I'm using right now: https://www...