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Friday, December 30th, 2022
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[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 ...
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Friday, December 30th, 2022
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[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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, December 30th, 2022
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[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 ...
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Friday, December 30th, 2022
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[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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, December 30th, 2022
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[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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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