The article covers final pre-launch features for a SaaS product, including user sign-up limits and login page styling.
A guide explaining the benefits of conda virtual environments and six essential commands to create, activate, and manage them for Python projects.
Announcing v2.0 of a Terraform module for deploying Azure subnets with NSG and route tables, solving conflicts with Azure Landing Zone policies.
A monthly tech digest covering Meta's DotSlash tool, AI-powered code reviews, AWS Lambda scaling, observability trends, and Cloudflare's logging pipeline.
Discusses the pitfalls of automating tests just to follow trends, emphasizing business value over mimicking tech giants.
Explores the 'Reveals Intention' rule from Kent Beck's Four Rules of Simple Design, focusing on writing clear, readable code.
Explores Apache Iceberg's catalog system, its role in data lakehouse architecture, and key considerations for choosing the right catalog.
Introducing webrcli and spidyr, a starter toolkit for building Node.js projects that integrate R via webR, enabling seamless use of R functions in JavaScript.
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/webrcli-and-spidyr.md Find all my posts about webR here. Note: the first post of this series explaining roughly what w
A guide to using nightly Swift toolchains on macOS for testing bug fixes and upcoming language features like Embedded Swift.
Explains how to use Azure's Cloud Native Private DNS Resolver to implement split-horizon DNS for hybrid environments.
Explains how to use xUnit's TheoryData<T> for type-safe parameterized tests in C#, replacing untyped IEnumerable<object[]> data.
Learn how to dynamically style CSS pseudo-elements like ::after using JavaScript and CSS custom properties (variables).
A developer shares their experience migrating a personal blog from Gatsby.js to Astro, citing reasons like build speed and simplicity.
A review of iA Writer's new Authorship feature for tracking edits, highlighting its innovative concept but problematic implementation for static site generators.
A tutorial on evaluating Large Language Models using Hugging Face's Lighteval library on Amazon SageMaker, focusing on benchmarks like TruthfulQA.
A guide to resolving compatibility issues between HTMX and Shoelace web components, with a focus on Shadow DOM and event handling.
Explains why Amazon S3, despite being used for files, is fundamentally not a filesystem, contrasting its design with the Unix file API and deep vs. shallow modules.
Explains techniques for compressing and analyzing CS2 game demo files using Protocol Buffers and custom data structures for performance analysis.
A guide to setting up Microsoft Entra Identity Governance's 'Connected Organization' feature for secure external collaboration and access management.
