17 February 2024

21 links · Saturday

Forgot that connection string? Get it here!

All connection strings in one place. Find the syntax for your database connection using ADO.NET, ADO, ODBC, OLEDB, C#, VB, VB.NET, ASP.NET and more.

From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate

It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering management position after the expansion of our team. I've been a front-end developer for 7 years before that, and initially I took the "advanced individual contributor"…

Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta

This paper describes Meta's TestGen-LLM tool, which uses LLMs to automatically improve existing human-written tests. TestGen-LLM verifies that its generated test classes successfully clear a set of filters that assure measurable improvement over the original t…

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot

Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Cop…

Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi # Chris Dzombak

Keeping a Raspberry Pi online and working with zero intervention for weeks, months, or years is somewhat of an art form. Several classes of things can go wrong, and you need to consider how your Pi will recover from each of them.

Vision Pro - Exploring Spatial Computing

My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means and how it can be useful.

Code to Cloud with .NET Aspire

In this session, Distinguished Engineer David Fowler and .NET Product Architect Damian Edwards will talk about how .NET 8 makes building cloud-native apps easier than ever, with powerful new features to turbocharge the development experience.

Using Scoped Services From Singletons in ASP.NET Core

Did you ever need to inject a scoped service into a singleton service? I'll explain how you can solve this problem and safely use scoped services from within singletons in ASP.NET Core.

Forgejo forks its own path forward

Since its inception, Forgejo (a self-hosted git forge, like GitHub) has been a soft fork of Gitea. Upgrading to it was - and for the time being, remains to be - as simple as changing the URL from which the release is downloaded. Over time, the way Forgejo is g…