19 October 2023

38 links · Thursday

Weekly Update 370

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Hampton Blog

A private and highly vetted network for high-growth founders and CEOs.

I turned down $16M for my startup. Here’s why...

It was a tempting offer, but when it came down to signing on the dotted line, there were five reasons that convinced me to decline an acquisition offer and bet on growth for Groove.

Taking notes for effective learning

I have been learning a lot of cool things lately and it was becoming a bit difficult to retain all the information that I had learnt.

Stream Deck for Developers

I've always been keen on creating shortcuts and macros for everything and this is how I'm using a Stream Deck XL to make things even easier.

the machine reads a letter about LLMs

We asked the machine to read a recent post: Presumably the more orthodox style of the LLM-generated tone will be more friendly to the new reader. The forwarded message you’ve provided covers …

The Web Is For User Agency

We take the Web for granted as that thing that's there and we talk of things being good or bad for the Web, but we don't ever sit down and really say what the Web is for. I take a look at this question with an eye towards understanding what it is we need to do…

Advice on early-stage fundraising

More in-depth advice on how to execute a fundraise within an early stage startup. Mentallity, preparation and execution.

Networking as an introvert CTO

There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like a fish out of water. The room was filled with

On automating unit tests with LLMs.

Using LLMs for auto-generating unit tests aids rapid development in building Python libraries, but while beneficial, it's no substitute for deliberate test-writing and might create a false safety net

AppSec loves Agile

I describe myself as an Agile Fundamentalist because I really like the ideas of the Agile manifesto, and I also confidently state that I am an AppSec snooper, because in my day job I tend to look at other people’s code, logs and systems and break them. I happe…

Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering

I’m coming up on 15 years of professional software engineering. I’ve worked at companies from unknown startups to large FAANG-like silicon valley companies and everywhere in between. In no particular order, sharing some things I’ve learned that others may find…

The Software Pro's Best Kept Secret.

Real-world proficiency projects designed for experienced engineers. Develop software craftsmanship by recreating popular devtools from scratch.

DRM-Free e-Books Are Now Available. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal

Since e-books first emerged as a way for readers to consume content digitally, publishers and authors have required content aggregators to apply Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to the e-books they sell to libraries to prevent the unauthorized use, c…

Events are an API. Treat them that way!

Events are an API. Treat them that way. Often events are thought of as either domain events or integration events. But there's more of a distinction to be ma...

.NET Rocks: Data Sharding with Oren Eini

You can listen to me talk to Carl & Richard on RavenDB Sharding here.What is data sharding, and why do you need it? Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini ab...

.NET Rocks! bUnit Update with Egil Hansen

What's the latest with bUnit? Carl and Richard chat with Egil Hansen about his excellent testing library for Blazor. Egil digs into the ongoing improvements being made in Blazor and how bUnit can support those changes without having to rewrite tests - even .NE…

Wolverine now does Event Streaming with Kafka or MQTT

As part of an ongoing JasperFx client engagement, Wolverine (1.9.0) just added some new options for event streaming from Wolverine applications. The immediate need was to support messaging with the…