30 June 2023

40 links · Friday

Finding My Pathless Path

Discover your Pathless Path and create a life true to you. Embrace curiosity and explore unexpected twists.

Racket frustrates me

Sorry if I upset any of the nice Racket folks out there. It’s time for a little reality check. First, repeat after me: Coding is a tool to get stuff done. If you let your programming language impact your productivity, you are not in charge, the technology is …

A life-changing encounter with a man named Dan

This essay is by my brother, Sam. In 2009, I had a life-changing encounter with a man named Dan; he was the top salesman at our company and left an indelible mark on my career. Dan was an impressiv…

Stop following the news | Robert Roose: Designer

Discover why I stopped following the news and why you should consider doing the same. Learn why the news can be harmful to you and how you can escape the negative spiral of news consumption.

FP pattern - list of TODOs

I’ve solved a fair amount of Advent of Code puzzles in Elm, and stumbled upon a pattern that quickly became my go-to for problems like pathfinding and (mathematical) optimization.

Waste in software development

Toyota Production System and waste Link to heading It was around ~2011 when I first read The Toyota Way book. This book introduced me to The Toyota Way principles and the Toyota Production System (TPS). It laid the foundation for me to understand the Continuou…

Going Multi-Region with Zero Devops

I’ve been a huge fan of DigitalOcean for many years, and one of my SaaS businesses, AwardFares, has lived there for the past 5 years. We initially ran everything on a couple of Droplets (Ubuntu VPS that we managed ourselves). When DigitalOcean announced their …

Ligma

Figma has been in the news lately, probably as a result of their Config event where they announced a bunch of new features. Vercel’s CEO gave a talk about something-something React Components, I think. That, in turn, seems to have spawned a few takes about Fig…

File for Divorce from LLVM · Issue #16270 · ziglang/zig

I'm sorry honey, it's just not working out. Our relationship worked when we were younger, but we're both older now and we've grown apart. This issue is to fully eliminate LLVM, Clang, and LLD libra...

Lovely Rita (Remix)

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupLovely Rita (Remix) · The BeatlesSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band℗ 2017 Calderstone Productions Limited (a D...

The MediatR Feature NOBODY Is Using!

If you use MediatR, chances are that your handlers get cluttered by a lot of cross-cutting concerns. That's because MediatR has actually the best feature eve...

How To Parse String to DateTime in C#

In this article, we are going to learn how to parse string representations of date and time to an equivalent DateTime value in C#. 

A few words on taking notes

As we are about to start the planning meetings for 2024 at AWS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I take notes.

Nick Chapsas

Hello everybody I’m Nick Chapsas and this is my YouTube channel.