An aspiring developer with an interest in reactive applications, CQRS and JavaScript. http://t.co/gAPN65cPHR MVP

Calgary, AB, Canada
Joined February 2009
Talking with somebody about getting solar panels on the house next week. What questions should I be asking? I bet @Krisbike4life has some ideas
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When i was a kid a battery powered battery charger was kind of a running gag. Now it’s commonplace
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Still have SOAP web services to contend with? @stimms shows you how to consume those in .NET Core with Core WCF buff.ly/3xb5dvH
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Celebrating 250 episodes of @AspNetMonsters today. Thanks @stimms and @CanadianJames for sticking with this over the years. It's been a lot of fun.
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It would be fun if small nuclear reactors took off and we got nuclear disarmament as prices for uranium made it financially unviable to maintain and build nuclear weapons
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Had @zotero existed when I was in high school I don't know what the librarians would have had left to teach.
The elusive ‘belk’ finally found in Banff National Park! 😲 After years of rumours and stories, Parks Canada staff captured this image of the stunning and elusive mammal in the Banff National Park backcountry. Learn how to view wildlife safely: ow.ly/Ox7350IxFyI
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Trying to explain to the kids that when I was a kid things you ordered came in 4-6 weeks. I don't think we talk enough about what a marvel the modern supply chain is.
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Would anybody be interested in joining a class action lawsuit against @Pinterest on behalf of husbands who have to do home renovation projects because of some photos their wives saw on there?
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I'm tired of being an uncool programmer. It is time for a dramatic change. alias hip=git hip status
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95.6% of the DNS queries I block on my network are bullshit tracker URLs from my @onepeloton bike and tread. WTF? newrelic and segment.io (twilio). 34 000 queries for the bike and 21 500 for the treadmill in the last 24 hours.
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This article is a classic
You don't have to use a batch job to update all 7 million records in the database. You can send timeout messages into the future to take action at the *right* time, not just when the batch job runs. Find out more in Death to the Batch Job: buff.ly/3HYlV3C
It is the small things sometimes. Like the loading animation on this site acmespring.com/our-springs/c… I'm just in love with what @purpleprinceweb did on this page. Every type of spring loads differently too! acmespring.com/our-springs/t…
Redux is an over complicated tool which serves to make people feel better about having global state. It encourages coupling through ridiculous global events which could better be solved by allowing components to be self contained and not beholden to n-tier nonsense
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Here is the deal, recruiters: When you say "urgent need" that says to me that one of the following is true 1. The last person left in a hurry for good reason 2. The company isn't good at planning 3. You forgot about this posting None of these make me want to apply
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Wow, this is quite the graph of water levels at the Wivenhoe Dam near Brisbane. It might be raining a little there.
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In other news AMD Ryzen beats Pentium 120MHz. Let's be a bit more aspirational with our choice of things to compare ourselves.
People love the TortoiseSVN client. But it’s, well, a tortoise 🐢. And P4EXP (Helix Core) is a hare 🐇. bit.ly/2wwmmjo #tortoisesvn #versioncontrol
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I really like these @bar_built protein bars but they have just terrible quality control. Yesterday's bar was missing half its chocolate. Today's wasn't properly sealed.
I sure don't feel like we're on the path to the Star Trek future. Elysium maybe.
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