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Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: Random

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. [20221231] 36 Things I Learned in 2022 -- #1 blew my mind: For the first time in history in 2020, the weight of things produced by humans (concrete, metals, plastic) was greater than the weight of the global living biomass. [20221224] Reported Sleep Duration Reveals Segmentation of the Adult ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: Interesting Software

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. [20221231] EndBasic -- BASIC with cloud, DOS-like GUI. Actively developed. [20221231] pbproxy -- send your clipboard anywhere you can ssh. [20221231] LCARS -- open source web implementation of the Star Trek UI. [20221231] VAP -- video animation player. Particle effects and transparency on a webpage. [20221223] mdBook -- create books with ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: GPT-3

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. (Also, this was a late addition and I'm focused in my interest, so this is thin) [20221231] Reverse Engineering Notion's Prompts -- in Hacker News discussion there’s skepticism you’re getting the actual prompts, vs GPT-3 being its usual stylistically faithful yet factually inaccurate creative self. Someone from Notion ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: Management

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. [20221231] Four Day Work Week Going Well -- 97% of the 495 respondents want to stay with a four-day workweek and so do the 27 companies that responded. [20221223] 20 Great Open Questions -- for coaching and more. [20221221] Engineering in a Hybrid World -- At the time of ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: Product

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. [20220203] Tree/Loop Prompts Our ability to ________ is a function of our ability to ________________ has a number of contributing factors, including ________When ________ [increases/decreases] we would expect to see __________ [increase/decrease]To [increase/decrease] ___________, we have a number of options including ____________To [increase/decrease] ___________, we have a number ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: Dev, Architecture, APIs

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. [20221231] Temporal.io -- With Temporal, you write your various complex, potentially long-running actions as normal, synchronous code, which Temporal "magically" turns into distributed, asynchronous, automatically retried, idempotent jobs. The design is really elegant, and removes all of the hard work from writing code that must keep things ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: Security

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. [20221223] PEACH Framework for Cloud Security -- risks associated with customer-facing interfaces and determines: the complexity of the interface as a predictor of vulnerability; whether the interface is shared or duplicated per tenant; what type of security boundaries are in place (e.g. hardware virtualization); how strongly ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: SQL Server/Databases

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. [20221231] Job Drain Pattern -- we make heavy use of this internally. Cf In-Memory Outbox:  an easy-to-use, reliable solution to perform atomic operations that update a database and send/publish messages, and it works for any database updates that are sent as commands (delivered by durable message ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: Front End/Flutter/Dart/UI

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. [20221231] React Admin -- claims of a full-featured data grid, which is 50-80% of many of our apps. (As well as roles & permissions and validations) [20221224] Death to the Line of Death -- the idea that an application should separate trustworthy UI from untrusted content. ...

Nat’s 2022 Technical Link Pile: C# and .NET

Friday, December 30th, 2022

See the Intro for context. (We're hiring WinForms seniors! Mail me: nat@ontempo.co.nz) [20221224] How to Structure Your .NET Solutions: Architecture and Trade-Offs – what it says on the box. [20221224] DocFx – generate static documentation site from embedded XML documentation. [20221224] .NET Advent Calendar – most are interesting, though they’re so diverse it’s ...