15 March 2024

19 links · Friday

The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like

Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we've been featuring their efforts to make their vast collection of cultural artifacts freely accessible online.

General Performance Tip: Retrieving the Process Id

When working with .NET, there are two options to obtain the initiating process ID. The Process type and System.Environment both provide methods for this. Benchmark tests reveal that using the Proce…

Onboarding roulette: deleting our employee accounts daily

I’m a strong believer in automated tests - and a moderately disciplined author of them. Software engineering is exceptionally hard to get functionally correct, and even harder to avoid regressing later. As my wise teammate Dave says, “Legacy code is any code t…

LINQ Query Improvements in Marten 7

Working inside of the LINQ provider code that’s ultimately interpreting C# code and trying to turn that into the most efficient Pgpsql code possible somehow makes me think about Alice in Wond…

Github Copilot– Some experimentation

I was reading the following blog post when I thought: "How good (or bad) would Github Copilot handle the scenario's mentioned in the post?...

Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

The most important piece of furniture in your home is in need of assistance. How did we end up here? And how can we fix it?

Release NATS.Net v2.1.3 · nats-io/nats.net.v2

We're happy to announce version 2.1.3 of NATS.Net, which introduces experimental OpenTelemetry tracing for better diagnostics, plus bug fixes. Feedback on OTel tracing is appreciated. What's Change...