12 August 2023

43 links · Saturday

My "It's not DNS" story

The story about the DNS resolver, Linux VMs, experienced infrastructure team, and me troubleshooting an incident happened on Sunday morning.

Use The Awesome Minimal APIs Grouping Feature #shorts

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Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations

This memo contains the thoughts and recountings of events that transpired during and after the release of information about the United States National Security Agency (NSA) by Edward Snowden in 2013. There are four perspectives: that of someone who was invol…

Episode 55: RavenDB and Database Internals - with Oren Eini

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Oren Eini about RavenDB and diving deep into the world of database internals. We explore the intricacies of how databases work under the hood and discuss the challenges - especially around performance. Oren …

Rayban Stories

My wife worked at Meta (formerly known as Facebook) and helped market the Rayban Stories which retail for ~$300 USD. They are “smart glasses” which have two camera lenses built into the glasses’ frame: A shutter button exists above the right temple for capturi…

Update on minimalism — bayindirh

As a part of my minimalism journey, I'm trying to reduce my digital footprint. This means I'm using less services, less devices, less applications. In other words, trying to do more, with less.

Be Jumpy.

my working theories

My Thought Buddy ~ Noise, Signal, Small, Huge, and More

Almost all of us want to make our mark in the world. And there are immortals who have a higher purpose more than just making a mark. The latter is beyond my comprehension for the most part, but I’m an observer of actions of the former types now and …

Larian's unfair advantage - Credistick

This post was inspired by two things I saw recently: The connection between these two items is not obvious, but it is interesting. The lemon problem WeFunder, for the uninitiated, is a crowdfunding platform for (primarily) technology companies. It allows commu…

Stack Overflow's strike is over: But its problems persist

Well, the Stack Overflow strike is over. Since I've been writing about the strike quite a bit, I should probably write some sort of conclusion. Like any good negotiation, both sides got some, but not all, of what they wanted:

I Built a Linklog

In the spirit of Daring Fireball and to fill a space between a social post or boost and a full blog post, I’ve created a new feature for Hearthside that allows me to share a link to a web page that...

Eloquent code needs no comment

Comments are often a tell that the code could be more explicit. Write the code the way you would like to read it in the future.

Full Text Search Coming

Note, the functionality of this may change - the feature is still in development and the specifics of how it works might be different whe...

Mastering Dapper Relationship Mappings

Dapper is a lightweight object-relational mapper in .NET. It's popular because it's easy to use and fast at the same time. Dapper extends the IDbConnection interface with methods for sending SQL queries to the database. But, because of the nature of SQL, mapp…