17 August 2024

28 links · Saturday

Complete Guide to Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS With MassTransit

In this article, we'll explore how to use Amazon SQS and SNS for asynchronous messaging in .NET applications. We'll also see how MassTransit simplifies the process, enabling you to build robust message-driven systems.

Everyone should have a PiKVM in their desk area

What do you do when you want to tinker with a bare metal system? For years, I'd go drag an old monitor, keyboard, and mouse out of a cupboard. Then, I'd inevitably spend 20 minutes looking for an ethernet cable that was the right length before finding that I h…

Bun DIY: Tailwind Lite | christophilus

When I started my zero-dependency Bun application experiment, I had no plans to build a CSS processing layer. My plan was to just hand-roll my CSS like any self-respecting neanderthal. But... I'd forgotten how much I like the convenience of fire and wheels and…

Can GPT generate random numbers ?

Well a random thought came to my mind if GPT can really generate a random number ? Best thing is to find out yourself. First thing is to quickly write boiler plates around random number generation using the cohere sonet model. async def generate_random_numb…

Are you considering Event Sourcing? Think again.

Are you considering doing event sourcing? Maybe you have read that it is necessary for your project or that you will have great benefits in doing so. If so, I ask you to think about an alternative. Maybe you already have something of equal capacity in the tool…

Conformal Sets Part 2, Estimating Precision

After publishing my post yesterday, in which I said you could not estimate the false positive rate using conformal sets, I realized there was a way given the nature of if you know some parts of the…

Obvious advice

This is a common scene at the MIRI offices: I have a decision to make, like what sort of winter fundraiser to run. Before making any choices, I take a few minutes to write down all the obvious things to do before making the decision: spend five minutes brainst…

The 1 Hour per Year Bug (But Only in Pacific Time!)

The date was November 8, 2021 and I was a bug triager on the Google Docs team. That day began like any other. I made myself some coffee and started looking through bug reports from the day before.…

Creators vs Consumers

Whenever I want to give people career advice, I inevitably start saying the things that worked for me.

No Outer <code>margin</code> | Kyle Shevlin

It is an anti-pattern to add margin to the outermost element of a component. It breaks encapsulation and makes components difficult to reuse. Let's learn what to do instead.

What makes you not give up on life?

The question was asked What makes you not give up on life. This is something I feel strongly about so here is my answer:

That's the Sound of Devs Working on the Chain Gang

Are you a manager desperate to cover up their own lack of productivity and general uselessness by implementing a system that will allow you to constantly lament your underlings apparent lack of productivity? Well if you are managing Software Engineers, I have …