Brooklyn Work-From-Home Study
Multimodal work-from-home environment on 60sqft: how much functionality can you fit into a really, really tiny space while still keeping it light?
Stop Using MVVM - Nick's .NET Travels
The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern has long been a cornerstone in building maintainable and testable UIs across frameworks like WPF, Xamarin, Uno Platform, and others. It provides a clean separation of concerns and enables powerful data binding. But despi…
Do You Remember What You Read?
Why I never skip a Readwise day
Onboarding Your Engineering Manager
Practical, people-first guide to onboarding an engineering manager so they ramp fast, build trust, and lead with impact.
Yes, the referee might be biased. Discipline in English football.
Blog on management, statistics, and data.
So you want to create a new abstraction
There’s always this motivation to provide value in the software development lifecycle by creating a new abstraction. This abstraction may be a simple microse...
Morality of Advertising
Ask someone if they like ads, you'll almost certainly get a "no." Nobody wants their YouTube videos interrupted by a gecko. But directing people's attenti...
What even is distributed systems
What even is distributed systems
The Day Novartis Chose Discovery
How a Swiss pharma giant built the last great corporate research skunkworks - and why that model may never work again.
Beauty of second degree probes
I’ve been noticing this pattern again and again—just about enough to make this pattern a heuristic for my own understanding. “No lie can overcome a second degree probe”
Debian -- News -- Debian 13 "trixie" released
August 9th, 2025
OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second
Sorry Wplace.live
Performance Pitfalls in C# / .NET - List Contains
Looking at the performance of a C# helper method for Contains
Building Complex Side Projects With Purpose - Dev Leader Weekly 105
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss building side projects, adding complexity, and doing so intentionally!
Automating .NET User Secrets with PowerShell
Manage secret configuration for dotnet projects using PowerShell
Weekly Recap - 2025-08-08
Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#!
Continuing ShortenUrl with Redis 8
This is a submission for the Redis AI Challenge: Beyond the Cache. What I Built I was...
HTTP is not simple
I often hear or see people claim that HTTP is a simple protocol. Primarily of course from people without much experience or familiarity with actual implementations. I think I personally also had thoughts in that style back when I started working with the proto…
The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy
A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.
The 5 Most Common API Design Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
I’ve been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread …