24 October 2023

41 links ยท Tuesday

The Great Deshittification

Recounting an impromptu episode last week where I helped Venkat Rao fix his blog, Ribbonfarm dot com.

Flattened — Ethan Lalakea Alter

Going with the flow will make you flat — how work, media, and biology conspire to render us less interesting over time.

The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes - The Big Picture

  The chart in this morning’s reads shows what it is going to cost to fund the interest payments on the federal debt. It’s gone vertical as rates have moved from effectively 0 to over 5%. When rates were zero all of corporate America refinanced, lowering the c…

A Bit of SaaS Weekly: One Last Time

This is a weekly newsletter on the Software as a Service world. Learning, building, and shipping. Written by Ethan Mick. This will be the last edition of the SaaS Weekly newsletter. Thank you everyone for your support, comments, thoughts, and time. If you ne…

The Race to the Bottom

The Silent and Relentless Erosion of Corporate Soul

Mann-Whitney U test and heteroscedasticity

Mann-Whitney U test is a good nonparametric test, which mostly targets changes in locations. However, it doesn’t properly support all types of differences between the two distributions. Specifically, it poorly handles changes in variance. In this post...

What's New in EF Core -- Visual Studio Magazine

Jim Wooley takes 20 minutes to discuss Table Splitting, Owned Types, Query Filters, DbContext pooling, GroupBy, String Interpolation, Lazy loading, Value Converters, Data Seeding, Query types, Optimized correlated subqueries, Spatial support, Query Tags and mo…

Animated AI

I'm creating animations and instructional videos about neural networks. Check out my Patreon and YouTube channel!

Rockin’ the Code World Season 4: Special Guest Maddy Montaquila (Leger)

Join the show #91 on C# Corner TV at 10:00 PST, Saturday, November 4th, 2023 featuring guest Maddy Montaquila, Senior Product Manager, .NET MAUI at Microsoft. Discover her journey from interning wi…

Arcade Longplay [901] Defender

http://www.longplays.orgPlayed by: SCHLAUCHI -Disclaimer: Most videos by World of Longplays use SaveStates!

What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity

The consulting giant kicked a hornet’s nest when it launched a framework to measure software developer productivity. Here’s what engineers think they got wrong.

The Risk of RISC-V: What's Going on at SiFive?

A quick one for you. I have received reports, now from multiple sources, that the major torch bearer of the RISC-V platform, a company known as SiFive and formed from the original architects of the RISC-V instruction set, has gone through some major changes.

ASP.NET Core Logging Crash Course

💻Join me on Patreon to get the source code: https://www.patreon.com/juliocasal🔥My Free .NET Backend Developer Roadmap: https://juliocasal.com/roadmapLearn ...

How to Dominate Technical Debt and Build Better Code

Understand the ideas behind managing technical debt and learn techniques to effectively track and prioritize it. Don't keep ignoring technical debt!

Conditionally add middleware in ASP.NET Core

Learn how to set up middleware in ASP.NET Core based on one or more conditions. This can help you run custom code for only specific endpoints.

Windows passwordless experience expands

Explore the improved Windows passwordless experience to organizations now available for Windows 11, version 22H2.

Protecting Auth Tokens

Authenticating to websites in browsers is complicated. There are numerous different approaches: the popular “Web Forms” approach, where username and password (“credentials”)…

Tailwind vs Semantic CSS

Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.