Public Service Announcement: Apache Kafka isn’t a message queue.

"If StackOverflow doesn't need a swarm of docker containers to run their services, chances are you don't either"

Learning is literally part of the job. A company that forces all learning outside the "normal" workday are actually forcibly extending the work day. This is an abuse situation, not a "wouldn't it be nice" situation. Same reasoning applies to "lunch and learns".

Be aware of differences when using messaging options at scale Stream (Event Hubs / Kafka) is like a grocery checkout. Every message picks a line and waits their turn Queue is like an airport ticket counter - one big line with lots of agents flagging for next person

DHH

Microsoft Dev Docs a perm and accessable language switcher. x.com/Abt_Benjamin/s…

Technical debt explained

People in the comments are talking about how this AI-interpolated animation looks bad and artificial. Here’s a different take: Wowowow I love this aesthetic! 💕 It has me imagining an alternate past in which AI was used to better simulate 3D on constrained 2D-sprite hardware.

Not wanting to spread rumours or potential misinformation, but if this is true then the next 12 months will be very interesting. reddit.com/r/azuredevops/…

"To Do/Doing/Done" is OK for a task checklist, but completely insufficient for more complex work items of Epic/Feature/Story if this is all your backlog has, your backlog is broke

My father is in the hospital, my mother sick and alone at home and today my assignment suddenly ended. #Covid_19 fucking sucks. 🤬

“Al weken gedraagt Nederland zich voorbeeldig is wat krijgen mensen ervoor terug: nog eens drie weken verlenging. Hoe rijmt u dat met elkaar?” is de stompzinnigste vraag ooit gesteld door een journalist. Met 1,5 kilometer afstand de stompzinnigste vraag ooit gesteld.

Watch as NASA and SpaceX launch the first American astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly a decade ti.me/2Xz6mdz #LaunchAmerica x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

I co-founded @reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging. It is long overdue to do the right thing. I’m doing this for me, for my family, and for my country.

Hey LEGO what went wrong with step 25? I’ve (actually my son) build a lot of sets, but this is first real mistake I noticed.

Retweet if you think #Afterlife should be up for an Emmy Award. Help us raise awareness! x.com/Margare8973468…

So to compile the .less CSS file I have to css using a file watcher in Rider, I have to install NodeJS, which installs additionally: Python3, VC++ runtimes, Chocolatey, vs2017 build tools, so I can pull down less.js, which is then usable to compile the less file to css. LOL WTF