Seeking flow in tech, art, music, sports, wheels, and waves. Seeking to learn more than I forget.
Joined August 2007
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13 Jul 2019
I try never to reinvent the wheel, unless I am wanting to truly understand how wheels work.
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7 Aug 2024
I love the new Attach to Process window in Visual Studio. devblogs.microsoft.com/visua…
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8 Aug 2024
Hey good news everyone, I deleted the code that upfront initializes the "Object Browser" behind the scenes on every VS launch. That was in the product for probably ~20 years.
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5 Aug 2024
LINQPad is coming to macOS!
using @AvaloniaUI XPF
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TIL that @GitHub has added a new feature to GitHub-Flavored Markdown to adapt blockquotes to Notes and Warnings (also known as "admonitions")
Syntax is super simple:
> **Note**
> This is a note
> **Warning**
> This is a warning
github.com/community/communi…
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26 Nov 2022
Goodbye compiler errors, the joys of dynamic programming languages 🤡
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9 Nov 2022
Today we're releasing two variable open source fonts from @GitHub, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans. We use them in production, and now you can use them too.
github.com/mona-sans
ALT A poster of Hubot and Mona, standing on a planet, holding a glowing font file.
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What is Mastodon?
How does it work?
Why do I need to choose a server?
What advantages are there to using it?
Check out this 2 minute video to learn more ⬇️
youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBm…
What is Mastodon?
The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance...
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TIL you can render diagrams on GitHub using markdown 😱
Markdown / Preview
![Markdown file with the following contents:
```mermaid
stateDiagram-v2
[*] --> Still
Still --> [*]
Still --> Moving
Moving --> Still
Moving --> Crash
Crash --> [*]
```](https://venexa.site/media/FhD3G6iXoAErMGo.png)
ALT Markdown file with the following contents: ```mermaid stateDiagram-v2 [*] --> Still Still --> [*] Still --> Moving Moving --> Still Moving --> Crash Crash --> [*] ```
ALT State diagram with the following states: Still, Moving, Crash.
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8 Nov 2022
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dotNET blog: Entity Framework Core 7 (EF7) is available today ift.tt/q9u7fSK
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When you're trying to enter the bios menu after booting
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Try to write down the problem before you go about working on the solution
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3 Oct 2022
I'd like to thank #BenchmarkDotNet for making benchmarking #dotnet apps and libraries so accessible and easy to write 🙏 Surely we can attribute some of the amazing performance focus and gains in the .NET community to this great OSS library? Performance is a feature! 🚀
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12 Oct 2022
🦄 EF Core 7.0 introduces JSON column mapping 🦄
LINQ queries are translated into `JSON_VALUE` and `JSON_QUERY` calls in the generated SQL.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef…
#EFCore #DotNet #EntityFramework #SqlServer #AzureSQL
ALT LINQ query translated to SQL with JSON access.
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26 Oct 2022
Mutation is murder! (of the previous state)
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26 Oct 2022
Functional programmers are like the vegans of programming
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Read about how free software for art and multimedia like #Inkscape gives design studios more independence and freedom: notes.ghed.in/posts/2022/fre…
Pass the word!
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heck of an end to a heck of a week in htmx-land:
we've hit 9000 ⭐'s on github after a rocket-launch from the @DjangoConEurope talk, two mentions on HN, and then more chatter @djangocon
have a great weekend folks: hypermedia is making a big come back and it's gonna be fun
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12 Oct 2022
Amazing. VSCode LaTeX Workshop has dark mode for *PDFs*! It even inverts the figures!
github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Wo…
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