A personal retrospective on founding and leading the SQLPort user group for SQL Server and Microsoft Data Platform over its first decade.
Analyzes a poll on third-party code usage in front-end development, comparing JavaScript vs. CSS reliance and discussing performance trade-offs.
A tutorial on Clojure programming, covering basic functions and implementing a prime number sieve as a learning exercise.
Andy discusses using CSS for print styling, specifically for Piccalilli invoices, and shares a resource from Rachel Andrew.
A technical guide on using StreamYard to stream a virtual Azure community event to YouTube, covering setup, features, and experience.
Explains why developers should avoid building custom authentication and use Identity-as-a-Service providers for security and efficiency.
A beginner-friendly guide to implementing user authentication and authorization in Vapor 4 using sessions and JWTs, written in Swift.
An updated overview of the Transformer model family, covering improvements for longer attention spans, efficiency, and new architectures since 2020.
A technical exploration of infection dynamics using a simple agent-based model written in C++.
A tutorial on implementing RSS feeds for a Django blog using Django's built-in syndication feed framework.
A developer's deep-dive into using dataframe.js for data cleaning and visualization, analyzing UN data on unpaid work by gender.
A developer explains their unconventional, branchless Git workflow, working directly on master and using rebase to organize changes.
A beginner-friendly introduction to Clojure syntax, covering lists, basic arithmetic functions, and using the REPL.
A technical guide on configuring an NGINX Ingress Controller with Dapr sidecar injection in Kubernetes for exposing Dapr-enabled applications.
A historical look at a quirky C code snippet from 1992 using smiley face typedefs, shared from the author's Google+ archive.
A guide to refactoring React state management by replacing multiple useState hooks with a single useReducer hook for a form-based calculator.
Explains an Azure VM boot failure due to Hyper-V generation mismatch in custom images and provides the fix.
Overview of new features in Java 14 for developers, including Switch Expressions, Records, Text Blocks, and Helpful NullPointerExceptions.
A technical guide on using type-safe code generation to prevent broken documentation links in software projects, ensuring compile-time validation.
Explains LCH colors in CSS, their advantages over RGB/HSL, and browser implementation status for accessing wider color gamuts.
