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Steve Ayers

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Ever wanted to quickly manipulate the JSON you are working with. jsoneditoronline.org has been super helpful.


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"the older I get the more I am enjoying dumb verbose code, over fancy concise code" via @samsaffron

codinghorror's tweet image. "the older I get the more I am enjoying dumb verbose code, over fancy concise code" via @samsaffron

State of remote work: lp.buffer.com/state-of-remot… First take away: "People who don’t recommend remote work are on teams split between offices and remote workers"


This year's State of JavaScript survey is closing soon, make sure you fill it out! survey.stateofjs.com #StateOfJS


Stuck wondering what Azure service to use, check this decision tree out to get you started docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ar… #Azure


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Finally! You can now do dotnet test in a solution directory with ASP.NET Core 2.1.500. All you have to do is add this to your test projects csproj file: <IsTestProject>true<IsTestProject>


2018 State of JavaScript, Not sure if there is a bias in the sample set but interesting read nonetheless 2018.stateofjs.com/introduction


Developers, having a bad day? Just think it could be worse news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184429… (Oracle Database codebase)


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people, i invented AutoMapper to enforce a design convention, not to avoid assignments. if you cant/wont conform to the convention, don't use it if can conform to the convention, change your design, dont add config iow, if your config isn't 95% "Auto", dont use it


Exciting news for Babel users, type-checking out of the box with TypeScript blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/201… #JavaScript


Great history and reflection of Extreme Programming, highly recommend the watch. youtube.com/watch?v=cGuTmO…


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VirtualDOM is a confusing term. It just means in React a data structure in plain JS objects, which is used to compare with a new data and find the changes. It sounds though like it is an actual DOM implementation in JS, like JSDOM library does, but it isn't.


I do like this phrase "Branching is an integration credit card, you have to pay that debt off sometime" Feature flags are the answer!


Insightful and entertaining history of .NET by @richcampbell The idea of turning this into a book focusing on the people involved is great. I would definitely buy that book. youtube.com/watch?v=trHTLF…


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Remember how I was ranting the other day about how way more devs use Windows than you think? Turns out to be true.

wycats's tweet image. Remember how I was ranting the other day about how way more devs use Windows than you think?

Turns out to be true.

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Remote teams certainly take a lot of effort. But it takes even more work to hire great people that all happen to live near each other 🤷‍♂️


Want another option to store your private git repositories for free? Microsoft have joined the party visualstudio.com/team-services/…


Not sure which range of versions you can use to satisfy a npm package dependency? Use this site semver.npmjs.com


Why are there no trains running early to encourage public transport to the Auckland Marathon @AklTransport ?


I always end up coming back to …bconfigtransformationtester.apphb.com for testing out my web config transforms. Super helpful site.


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