Christian Merat

Open Source Figma is penpot.app @penpotapp

A visual guide on how to choose the right Database. Picking a database is a long-term commitment so the decision shouldn’t be made lightly. The important thing to keep in mind is to choose the right database for the right job.

I'm the author of the best-selling book System Design Interview-An Insider’s Guide. 11 days ago, two fraudsters hijacked the "Buy Now" button on Amazon, fulfilling all orders with a different book. I'm helpless to do anything. A sad story on self-publishing: a thread.

Most of the major criticisms of Bitcoin in one place: suerf.org/policynotes/38…

🎅New comic: NFT for Christmas🎅

This is NFTs and cryptocurrency in flesh. Hundreds of cards running 24/7, every two cards the equivalent power usage of a microwave. All producing... Nothing. Imagine this processing power turned to something tangible for society? Sadly all about profiting...

@matrichard5 @cajunAA Real programmers re-invent the wheel, one side at a time.

@cajunAA Probably banned stackoverflow also

I bet he makes all of the employees disable intelliSense and spellcheck

Every so often I see a Twitter thread where a new manager asks for advice, and inevitably, someone in the comments below says something to the effect of, "hire awesome people, listen to them and get out of their way" Let me tell ya, this is not advice. It's wishful thinking

the fun thing about low probability events is that they happen

Glim is a gnome from Lantan who has dedicated his life to studying the nature of reality. He's ventured into Undermountain to explore the knot in the weave and how it's impacted reality in Halaster's domain. #DDBStyle

@RadioCanadaInfo Bonne idée mais 1% c'est largement insuffisant quand le marché progresse de 10-20% annuellement.

Ottawa instaurera le 1er janvier prochain la première taxe nationale sur les biens vacants appartenant à des étrangers, notamment pour ralentir la frénésie immobilière ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/17861…

@isaacrlevin @dotnet @aspnet This might be intentional and I'm missing something (such as another machine at "some ip" that replies) but you're sending to a different port than the one you're listening on.

Calling all @dotnet @aspnet perf folks. If I want to "debug" a UDP socket call in .NET 5, what is the "preferred" way to do it? This little snippet is returning an error when it shouldn't and I want to know why. Already read this blog #telemetry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-5-n…

I really hope Microsoft doesn’t buy Discord. I love the product and would hate to see it get Yammer’d/Skype’d.

@JamesNK Need to use reflection to perform something funky? Hey, it happens! API devs can’t predict all use cases. But pleasr please please, put a unit test that makes sure that it’s still there when you update your libs. Can save you some painful production downtime.

Software dev: I'll use reflection to call a private API. Private API: *changes* Software dev:

Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies 👇Check the thread after reading for a few bonus facts👇 @alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610?sk=991ef9a180558d25c5c6bc5081c99089" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@alex.birsan/d…

The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class ow.ly/FeBb30rtYsS -> Fascinating social theory which will both entertain you and probably make you cringe.

C# p/invoke is finally easy, accurate, and carries no dependencies! 🎉 Similar good news for Rust, modern C++, and other languages. blogs.windows.com/windowsdevelop…

The growing ability of generative models to create realistic text/audio/images/video has sparked much excitement and concern, and led to valuable work on anticipating/mitigating/preventing related risks. But I think we're still pretty clueless about the key GM use cases (thread).