A personal year-in-review blog post reflecting on the blog's growth, content goals, and technical decisions like ads, analytics, and a potential platform migration.
A developer explains his simple system for managing dotfiles by turning his $HOME directory into a git repository with a clever .gitignore.
A statistician's response to New Zealand's proposed Algorithms Charter, analyzing its principles for ethical and transparent government algorithm use.
A tech professional reviews his 2019 goals, including mentoring, creating courses, blogging, learning Go, and navigating the tech industry.
A technical overview and personal notes on enabling and using Linux application support (Crostini) within ChromeOS, including architecture and setup.
Explores the availability and configuration of Columnstore Indexes across various Azure SQL Database tiers, including General Purpose, Serverless, and Hyperscale.
Discusses essential but often overlooked developer skills like command-line proficiency, shell utilities, automation, and cross-functional understanding for career success.
A mathematical exploration of wrapping presents efficiently using geometry and optimization to minimize paper waste.
Learn iOS debugging fundamentals with Xcode tools, breakpoints, backtrace analysis, and strategic problem-solving for fixing app bugs.
Learn iOS debugging fundamentals using Xcode tools, breakpoints, and strategic problem-solving to fix app bugs.
A recap of the 2019 Web Engineering Düsseldorf Meetup, highlighting events, speakers, sponsors, and the launch of a new conference.
A professor details the curriculum and practical challenges of teaching an undergraduate 'Data Science Practice' course, covering data prep, predictive models, and tools like R and keras.
A review of 2019 security predictions, covering progress on Rust adoption, WebAuthn security keys, and TLS 1.3 deployment.
Announcing a SQLBits 2020 workshop on migrating, optimizing, and running SQL Server workloads on Azure Virtual Machines.
A technical guide on containerizing the Lucas Chess GUI application using Docker, including sharing the host's X11 socket for GUI display.
A guide to building automated Azure resource cleanup workflows using Logic Apps and Azure Policy to manage costs.
A framework for making key architectural decisions when implementing micro-frontends, focusing on definition, composition, routing, and communication.
A summary of the Global AI Bootcamp 2019 in Malmö, featuring presentations on practical AI use cases like genealogy, robotics, and construction.
A technical guide on using ksqlDB and MongoDB to analyze network syslog data from UniFi devices, including Kafka stream processing.
