Explains Swift's Unmanaged struct for converting Swift object references to/from raw pointers when working with C APIs.
A technical talk on migrating Java 8 applications to Java 9/11, covering common hurdles like module system and dependency issues.
A guide to accessibility tooling and techniques for React applications, covering ESLint plugins, react-axe, and focus control.
Advocates for a career path alternating between engineering and management roles, rejecting the idea of choosing one permanent lane.
Cimbalino Toolkit 2.5.0 released, now targeting .NET Standard 1.0 for cross-platform compatibility and featuring other improvements.
Introducing pass-rotate, a tool for bulk password rotation after security breaches, automating password changes across multiple websites.
An introduction to web accessibility principles, explaining why it's important and providing practical HTML coding examples for inclusive design.
How Twitter Lite, a large-scale React PWA, achieved high performance by tackling bottlenecks like code splitting, rendering, and image loading.
Explains the various timeout configurations in AWS Elastic Beanstalk Worker Environments and how they interact with SQS.
A software engineer's guide to managing the overwhelming flow of technical information and staying current in the tech industry.
A technical guide detailing the steps and troubleshooting for installing QEMU from source on an AWS EC2 Amazon Linux instance.
A technical guide on mounting VMDK/OVF/OVA virtual disk images on AWS EC2, covering conversion, partition mounting, and LVM setup.
A guide to using VSTS Release Management and tokenization to deploy Azure Web Apps with environment-specific configurations.
A tutorial on debugging an ASP.NET Core application running inside a Docker container using Visual Studio Code.
A post-mortem analysis of the troubled Requests 2.12 release, detailing the 'five whys' behind breaking changes and technical decisions.
Troubleshooting guide for resolving Avro serialization errors when integrating Oracle GoldenGate with Kafka Connect.
A developer's guide to getting started with the .NET Core Tools MSBuild 'alpha', covering installation, project creation, and configuration.
A critical review of Spotify's web, desktop, and mobile apps, highlighting numerous bugs, localization errors, and usability issues.
A technical guide on configuring and using SendGrid to send emails from Azure Functions after the GA release, including code examples.
How to create clean URLs and redirects on GitHub Pages using a custom 404.html page and JavaScript, without server-side code.
