20 January 2024

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Rachel A. Rosen (@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop)

Attached: 2 images Help us Sad Bastards! Amazon in all its wisdom has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook. They won't tell us why. They won't tell us how to fix whatever tripped the algorithm. They won't seem to let us appeal. Reaching a human at Amazon is a…

Timeline Xamarin Apps – AskXammy

Hello! Recently, I came across a post by David Ortinau that I found extremely helpful. Motivated by this, I chose to create a summary into an article format. In this post, you’ll find crucial information about important dates you need to know if you’re in th…

Blazor App Spike! – Dev Leader Weekly 27

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, we'll look at doing a spike of our Blazor web application!

Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

A replacement for BinaryFormatter in .NET 8

In the old .NET Framework days, you could use the BinaryFormatter class to serialize and deserialize objects. This can be convenient for cloning or storing some session states. As the BinaryFormatter has some serious security concerns, the .NET team marked it …

What's that touchscreen in my room?

Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well …

In search of Hidden Conservation Laws

Numerical experiments are just what their name implies: experiments. In describing and evaluating them, one should enter the state of mind of the experimental physicist, rather then that of the mathematician. Numerical experiments cannot be used to prove theor…

Pivoting My Startup Journey

Something started to shift early this year, and this article is the result of my contemplation. In it, I'll reveal my bold decision with some strategies to flip the script.

Misconceptions about NFC

NFC (short for Near-Field Communication) is the set of communication protocols which allow for near-field communication between two electronic devices. One of the most prominent uses of this technology are contactless transactions - this includes services like…

My favorite website | Garrett Mickley

My favorite website is the Berkshire Hathaway website. It has nothing to do with the company itself. I invest in stocks because I feel like I have to if I want to retire. I actually believe that shareholder value is a myth and that it’s actually bad for our ec…

My grandpa was a Nazi

He was born in 1924. When Hitler seized power, he was 9 years old. He went to war with 16.

Everywhere a calendar

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Performance vs Diagnostic Metrics

The value of any tracked metric is in the actions it inspires. Numbers on a wall or a slide deck don’t mean anything on their own. They’re signposts and signals to help guide behaviour. Making the metrics go up or down can be very rewarding. Some metrics howev…

on leaving well

Leaving well is a core skill in the modern economy, but few know how. Here are some takeaways I have had from my most recent experience.