mattferderer

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by mattferderer 1mo ago
I have the same reaction with the "YouTube face" thumbnails.
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by mattferderer 8mo ago
I debate this in my head way to much & from each & every perspective. Counter argument - if what you say is true, we will have a lot more custom & personalized software and the tech stacks behind those may be even more complicat
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by mattferderer 10mo ago
Can't speak for this product but disabling a lot of the animations, gradients, shadows & visual effects has made Windows 11 run significantly better on the computers I have it on. They didn't seem to add much value anyways. I&
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by mattferderer 1y ago
If memory serves me right, the 2024 Energy Geek Out episode touched on this topic. https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1931 If I recall they touched on how US oil drilling companies with lots of experience in horizonta
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by mattferderer 1y ago
Google has been getting this push back for the last 15 years. (That makes me feel old to remember it) Google Knowledge Graph (that sidebar they show) was hated by publishers, especially Wiki for stealing their content. Google adding direct
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by mattferderer 1y ago
Cloudflare has been talking about this for a while albeit slightly different than your take - https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/
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by mattferderer 1y ago
Risks, risks & risks.. That's my #1 priority on communicating estimates. Overall this is a nice short summary on the topic. The one thing I would add that I found very helpful on larger projects is communicating the risks & unk
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by mattferderer 2y ago
I preferred lists as the only usable way to use Twitter, even before the takeover. I like how Bluesky has improved the functionality of your own feeds & being able to share them. If I recall, Elon was promising something similar when he
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by mattferderer 2y ago
Thank you for making us all feel very old. Slight aside on the original post: * Microsoft did just fight off a huge government battle on Activision. I believe they lost a battle on Teams bundling. Last week the FTC announced they were looki
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by mattferderer 2y ago
To be fair they're not a great comparison. VS Code starts out as a lightweight code editor & via extensions you can turn it into more of an IDE but it'll take a lot of customization & messing around. Rider is an IDE with a
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by mattferderer 2y ago
VS Code is really good at certain things but it struggles on larger projects & doesn't have near the advanced features. It's a very good choice though for a lot of projects. It's also a great way to try out C#. It has som
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by mattferderer 2y ago
As a paying subscriber I love this move for the .NET community. As a .NET dev for many years, I've noticed there have been periods of time where either Visual Studio or Rider was far better than the other. Currently, Rider is much bett
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by mattferderer 2y ago
Made me think of this old joke that's been on HackerNews, Reddit, etc for years: The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
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by mattferderer 2y ago
Congratulations to Cloudflare! Stepping up as the Newegg of the 2020s! Proud to be a customer.
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by mattferderer 2y ago
> but Nvidia themselves are trying to spin up their own cloud provider offering, and unsurprisingly don't want to help a competitor I thought Jensen recently said he does not want to offer their own cloud offering. He instead wants
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by mattferderer 2y ago
Underrated comment & stated beautifully. If you want a "diverse" team, having both kinds of above stated people on the team is crucial. The above mentioned A players can't do the steady boring work the so called C players
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by mattferderer 2y ago
A very common modern setup is PostgreSQL, C#/.NET, Linux & using JetBrains Rider for the IDE. You don't have to go all in Microsoft to use C#, F# or .NET. Also .NET has been about "run everywhere on any platform" as
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by mattferderer 2y ago
I love how much better listening to books with AI has become. Have you done any attempts at multiple narrators telling a story? Microsoft's Azure has a great tool for doing this but it's time consuming as you have to take all the
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by mattferderer 2y ago
> You are an expert Tailwind CSS developer that I will ask for help. Is that part of the prompt necessary anymore? I feel that was a version 3 thing. My prompts have been getting less verbose & I've been finding little value in
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by mattferderer 2y ago
You might be interested in this cool app that Microsoft made that I don't think I've seen anyone talk about anywhere called Speech Studio. https://speech.microsoft.com/ I don't recall their voices being the m
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by mattferderer 3y ago
It's a race & unlike other bubble tech this one has proven itself to even the most conservative of people. Yes there will be tons of terrible use cases & companies built on bad AI ideas. Those will crash like many .com companie
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by mattferderer 3y ago
> So your suggestion is to issue a chargeback.. to get money back that should under the terms of whatever service you signed up for be owed?. Funny story... One of the big cloud providers actually has you do that on purpose as a remedy f
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by mattferderer 3y ago
This reminds me of a recent talk by Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang. He discusses video compression history a bit. He proposes in the future one would just send a very small amount of data & then the computer displaying the video would r
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Sendgrid was my go to email provider for clients pre-acquisition. Once they got bought out & forced their poorly implemented 2fa with mobile phone requirements, I had no choice but to find different providers.
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Curious to hear your opinion on ODATA after using it on your projects. Pros, cons, anything.
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by mattferderer 3y ago
I wonder if torrent sites are a better 1 stop shop place where you can find everything? I also personally believe as tech makes it easier for indy type groups & average individuals to make longer form content, Netflix may just become ir
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by mattferderer 3y ago
Underrated new book not mentioned here - Think Like a CTO by Alan Williamson
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by mattferderer 3y ago
The link to the Basecamp article from several years ago should not be overlooked - https://basecamp.com/hill-charts Hill charts are a great way to keep people informed about a project status. I think they make much more sen
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by mattferderer 3y ago
I believe if you build with SIP (structured insulated panels) you get these built in often - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfvjvDlVzLs Saw an ICF house a decade ago where they did some thin channel mounted on the wall &am
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by mattferderer 3y ago
South Dakota, USA has entered the chat. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer... > A South Dakotan trust changes all that: it protects assets from claims from ex-spouses, disgru

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