14 August 2023

61 links · Monday

Wolverine’s Improved Azure Service Bus Support

Wolverine 1.6.0 came out today, and one of the main themes was a series of improvements to the Azure Service Bus integration with Wolverine. In addition to the basic support Wolverine already had s…

Does GitHub Copilot copy other people's code?

Where does the code that GitHub Copilot generates come from? Damian Brady has the answer in today's #OneDevQuestion. Learn more here: https://msft.it/605698D7O

162: I See You [On Better Meetings]

Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings, should we follow suit? Maybe there's a better way to look at all of this.

How to write a text editor

One of the most requested features for my terminal user interface library tview (now at 8.6K stars, which is still mind-boggling to me) was a multi-line text editor. Before starting to work on this UI component, I collected my users’ requirements for it. They …

Simple Prometheus queries for metrics inspection

Cardinality is key. And it’s easy to get it out of control. Check out a proposal on how to inspect your metrics with simple Prometheus queries and tune your instrumentation.

Self-Discipline Examples That Don't Suck

Tired of cookie-cutter advice and unrealistic routines? Dive into genuine self-discipline examples by real people facing real daily challenges.

A normal week (in tech)

Balacing daily distractions. Is this a work rythm we want?

GitHub - dnakov/little-rat

Contribute to dnakov/little-rat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Native Nova SHA256 bench - HackMD

Context: See https://hackmd.io/0gVClQ9IQiSXHYAK0Up9hg?view= for previous Nova benchmarks, with more of a focus on recursion.

This Will Make Your Repositories Obsolete

Using repositories in a setup with Entity Framework Core is a no-go from my point of view. The main reason I think this is because the DbContext class alread...

371: The Problem with Walled Gardens in Apps

There have been a lot of changes in the world of X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and even how our favorite apps work or don't work without logging in. We discuss this new world walled garden and also the fall of LK-99!

'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about gover

Recoverable Errors with Result - The Rust Programming Language

Most errors aren’t serious enough to require the program to stop entirely. Sometimes, when a function fails, it’s for a reason that you can easily interpret and respond to. For example, if you try to open a file and that operation fails because the file doesn’…

mi kama sona e toki pona or something

So I stumbled a few weeks ago on this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4y7tf3VJAM] about the world's smallest conlang and I've been thinking about it ever since. [https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/91c54129-9425-4695-bd68-6f65d83ae793/maxresdefau…

Google Safe Browsing – Google Transparency Report

Safe Browsing is a service that Google’s security team built to identify unsafe websites and notify users and website owners of potential harm. This report shares details about the threats detected and the warnings shown to users.

Data compression

There is a very high possibility that your browser downloaded this website as compressed data. I can feel sure saying this because the web standard defines gzip as a standard compressor for web content. So what it achieved by compressing this webpage? As with …

Turning 40; life as a 39-year-old :: Sacha Chua

Less childcare, because sometimes she's lost in a book and I can do something else like sewing, drawing, coding. Less sleep because I've been setting an alarm so that I can water the garden before I wake up A+. W-'s been doing more of the cooking because we're…

My favorite macOS command linen #blog

For macOS developers efficiency is everything Enter `mdfind` a command that marries speed with precision What makes it stand head and shoulders above the rest 1 Diving into Mdfind `mdfind` is like hav

Perpetually Declining Population?

In With a Whimper: Depopulation and Longtermism, Geruso and Spears give the following argument for why most people who'll ever live may have already died: People are generally having children below replacement rate: 1.66 children per woman in the US, and t…

Ozymandias

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! The common interpretation of the poem is that we're supposed to appreciate the irony of the self-...

Snowdrifts – brr

4 days of blown snow into a doorway.