My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Apropos of nothing

April 02, 2022
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After being brutalized by hurt and loss, the temptation is to treat others brutally in turn. We must resist and reject ...

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Large-scale social engineering

March 24, 2022
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Even as someone who is somewhat tech savvy I automatically think of hacking as an exercise in overcoming the technical ...

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Maximizing 1on1 time with your manager

March 08, 2022
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No one wants anymore meetings than are necessary, but if you do need them you should make them count. Squeeze every ...

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Recommended container limits for dotnet-monitor

February 23, 2022
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One of the recurring questions I get around the usage of dotnet-monitor is on the topic of recommended container ...

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Modernizing DasBlog - from Web Forms to .NET 6

January 27, 2022
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I am always talking about DasBlog! This time I joined my good friend James Montemagno (the new host of On .NET). We ...

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Using Power Automate to send tweets based on my RSS feed

January 21, 2022
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When I originally blogged about sending tweets based on my RSS feed I was vaguely annoyed by some of the limitations. I ...

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Helping team members deal with Imposter Syndrome

January 12, 2022
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I have been thinking about Imposter Syndrome quite a bit lately and how it can impact confidence and I have come to a ...

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Finding our new normal

January 04, 2022
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GitHub's releases a yearly state of the Octoverse report that examines the ways developers are coding, collaborating ...

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The User Old Heap (UOH)

December 16, 2021
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Back with the release of .NET 5 a new kind of heap was added to runtime called the Pinned Object Heap (POH). Pinning ...

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