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Read the explanation of method, madness, and spoilers.[1]
Published by marco on in Movies
Read the explanation of method, madness, and spoilers.[1]
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Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
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Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Movies
Read the explanation of method, madness, and spoilers.[1]
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
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This is another excellent 1-hour tour of another complex corner of .NET. Toub describes and shows how the source-generated RegEx engine works.
Deep Dive into RegEx with Stephen Toub by dotnet / Scott Hanselmann (YouTube)
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This is another video from Stephen Toub that is just chock/full of useful information.
Writing async/await from scratch in C# with Stephen Toub by dotnet (YouTube)
At 27:30, they start to discuss about the nomenclature of Task and how it differs from an Action. It’s funny that neither of them mentioned that tasks in .NET are called promises pretty much everywhere else (JavaScript, Java, etc.). Some libraries also use the word future. For more information, see Futures and promises (Wikipedia).
As he’s building everything, it is really astonishing to note that Hanselmann has to... [More]
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This is a great interview with the master of performance-optimization in .NET Stephen Toub. If you’re relatively well-versed in C#, .NET, and Linq, then you can just jump to the second video (linked below). I actually watched the second one first. I didn’t feel like I’d missed anything.
Deep Dive on LINQ with Stephen Toub by dotnet (YouTube)
Stephen Toub’s the guy who writes the 100+-page release notes on performance. See the following links.
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KRAZAM makes videos about working in tech and, more specifically, about working in a tech team that has been scrummed out, with lots of layers of management.
This is one of the more recent ones.
Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers by KRAZAM (YouTube)
“Your friends and family understand what you do.”
“Your friends and family appreciate your humorous work stories…”
“DevOps is a meaningful term.”
“That joke you told in your meeting was funny! If your coworkers were not on mute, you would’ve heard them laughing.”
At the beginning, it shows that... [More]
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I was chatting with someone about some picture and I noted that maybe we could find something appropriate.
I prompted DuckDuckGo with “raccoon trash panda digging in garbage can”. It gave me a whole grid of pictures, of which I quickly picked the following as my favorites.
Trash panda relaxing in a garbage can as if were a hot tub
Trash panda peeking out of garbage can
Trash panda living its best life in a trash can
Trash panda head down up to its hips in a trash can.jpgMy interlocutor had never really used any of the LLM-based machines before, so I gave GitHub Copilot a whirl. I prompted GitHub Copilot: “Show me a cartoon of a raccoon digging in a trash can with its butt in the air”.... [More]
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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
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This video is from a great channel, which published a lot of great videos a while back. They covered pretty much everything already, but circled back to JavaScript for 2024.
Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024 by Programmers are also human (YouTube)
Some choice quotes from the video.
“We push on save.”
“2024 is the year of the serverlesslessness.”
“They say that every year, but this year they’re out of VC funding.”
“Don’t write this down, next week all of this is gonna change.”
This guy just keeps knocking it out of the park. Pretty much everything he mentioned... [More]
The article Try it and see by Mark Dominus (The Universe of Discourse) discusses the graphic below, which is part of the “Cosmic Call”, a message to extraterrestrials.
The author says that he told his 11-year-old niece,
““I bet you could figure it out if you tried.” She didn’t believe me and she didn’t want to try. It seemed insurmountable.”
I sent this to a few people in my family.
After a little while, I provided some context. The Cosmic Call is:
“In 1999, two Canadian astrophysicists, Stéphane Dumas and Yvan Dutil,... [More]”
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“Around the mid-1800s humanity began to notice it doesn’t make sense for a small group of rich people to own everything and for everyone else to continually give that group labor, rent and expenses just to stay alive, and ever since then the media, the mainstream culture and the foreign policy of the ruling class have been intensely devoted to aggressively erasing this realization from humanity’s memory.”
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record instead.The following video discusses the downsides of the current implementation of primary constructors:
The C# 12 Feature You Shouldn’t Use, Yet by Nick Chapsas (YouTube)
To sum up:
readonly backing field; you can still assign to it within the type.Published by marco on in Notes
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“Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society. Moral values are in flux. The muddy depths are being stirred by new monsters and witches from the deep. Trolls walk the American night. Caesars are stirring in the Forum. There are storm warnings ahead.[1]”
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Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
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The article Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler makes many interesting points. It is a compendium of know-how about CI by one of the industry heavyweights, who’s been using it for a long time.
While I found a lot of what he had to say interesting, I did wonder how applicable CI is for the kinds of teams that I know and work with. He makes several statements toward that end that pretty severely limit the applicability of what he calls “true CI” for many, if not most, teams.
I think he should have started... [More]
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