9 August 2023

53 links · Wednesday

strengthen your startup skeleton

If you are ever going to start a company or work at a startup, do it now, while you are still young. I do not agree with the conventional wisdom that startups are for young people only, that once you...

DCaulfield

A Learning and Development vision is one of the most powerful tools you can use to improve your organisation's learning culture. An L&D vision describes the future you want to create for your organisation. A good vision depicts 2-5 years into the future. Anyth…

Start With a Minimum Viable System

After college, my first big programming project for work was to build a CRUD app from scratch. The most important lesson that I learned from it was that when I’m in an unfamiliar environment, I should prefer to build a minimum viable system by developing thing…

How To Find A Therapist

In 2020, due to the “fun” combination of COVID-19 and two young children at home, I wanted to see an (individual) therapist. At the time I was employed by GitHub, which had a program where I could get up to six sessions paid for by them. After five of these, I…

Week1.2 What I need to do to set up my machine?

ordered a MacBook, but it wasn't ready for me yet. Instead, I got this big, clunky Windows laptop. It was heavy, you could easily kill someone or yourself just by carrying it. I booted it up, and the first thing it did was to update Windows. In the meantime, m…

The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool

I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…

Background Work in Uno Platform Applications

Which option is best for running tasks in the background? Is it a Worker, a Service, or a basic Task Run from .Net? Let's discover the answer! Dive into understanding how to incorporate background work into Uno Platform applications.

What's going on in Moq? SponsorLink and burnt soil!

The famous Moq library faced some criticism due to the usage of SponsorLink. What is the problem, and what is going on here? And obviously, I will add all the sources to the articles.

Remove Moq From Your .NET Projects Right NOW!

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Moq Uses Your Personal Information!!!

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SponsorLink: trying something new-ish for OSS sustainability

Open source sustainability is a tricky topic. I would kindly refer you to the thoughtful post by Eric Sink and Six Labors’s license change post. Suffice to say, we all struggle to make this a sustainable proposition where we can dedicate full-time to the proje…

ModuleInitializer Attribute in C#

In this article, we discuss the overlooked ModuleInitializer attribute in C# and showcase its use in a class library.

Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Use Auto-Implemented Property

The article discusses the use of auto-implemented properties in Microsoft .NET code analysis. While the author generally advises against their excessive use, they highlight a real-world example whe…

A WPF Statusbar Control

Statusbar controls are boring, but because of the way that they are used there are a number of caveats like ensuring the UI updates even in linear code, allowing for timeouts of status messages and resetting to default, and to provide some visual clues to draw…