Convergence

a t-rex and a robot high-five each other in the main street of a deserted wild west ghost town where some of the buildings have been modernized, or perhaps even futurized
Today, this idea came to me. I may try to draw it, but for now, generating three images with Craiyon and assembling them with paint.net feels close enough.
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UWP - Data Templates in Resource Dictionaries

Lately, I’ve found myself looking into UWP development. Tonight I want to share a problem I ran into and a workaround that I found. I’ve created a repo that shows the step by step progression, and this blog post is meant to provide additional context around that. Pre-emptive nitpickers note: for the sake of problem reduction, the code in this repo is not overly concerned with patterns, best practices, error checking, and so on
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Templated Server Views with Hapi.js

Today I realized I’ve overlooked a great feature of Hapi.js, so I figured I’d write a quick post about it. What I Was Doing For a server rendered view, I was doing this. var jade = require('jade'); var fs = require('fs'); var template = jade.compile(fs.readFileSync(pathToTemplate)); // later on return template(context); This was fine for what I was doing at the time, since the rendered output was really part of a larger response, and was pretty much the only area in the system where such a thing was being done.
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Committed to Good Commits: Atomic, Frequent Commits

This is part of a series on good commits. In this post, we’ll discuss atomicity and frequency. Remember that this series and the talk from which it came is a description of what has worked well for me, not a prescription of what will work well for you. It’s ok to do things differently. Atomic Commits By an atomic commit, I mean there’s just one reason for change included in the commit.
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What You Think Vs. What You Know

Me: Have you checked the closet? 5yo: No, I know it’s not there. Me: But have you checked the closet? 5yo: Nooooo. I know it isn’t there. Me: I hear you, but I want to know if you’ve actually looked. (wife comes back with the missing shirt) Me: Was it in the closet? Wife: Yep. As a result, we had a good discussion about the differences between knowing and thinking.
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