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Patterns of Distributed Systems

Posted on August 30, 2021 by ericgharrison

A new work in progress – by Unmesh Joshi: https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/

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Turning on MFA on SalesForce

Posted on August 28, 2021 by ericgharrison

I don’t currently work with SalesForce, but after seeing the Twitter thread around how difficult it was to enable MFA, I figured I’d post this link just in case it comes up in the future, or perhaps someone will find it in their hour of need!

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Best practices for setting up a WSL 2 dev env

Posted on July 26, 2021 by ericgharrison

Putting this here for reference. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/setup/environment

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How to spot someone drowning

Posted on July 25, 2021 by ericgharrison

This is something we should all read. I hope I’m never in a position to need it, but I’ll be ready if I do! https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html

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Run Windows 3.1 on an iPad

Posted on July 15, 2021 by ericgharrison

Honestly, I feel like I need to take some time and do this. Absolutely nothing will be gained, but it would be neat!

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Giving the customer exactly what they ask for

Posted on July 8, 2021 by ericgharrison

This is a cute video that came across my Twitter feed at a very appropriate time. I had just explained to someone that they cannot tell us “the customer isn’t very specific about what they’re sending us, so you need to fix it”, when discussing processing data through an API. I explained that this isn’t […]

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Programming Sucks – an essay by Peter Welch

Posted on June 27, 2021 by ericgharrison

Programming can be incredibly rewarding… and at the same time be it’s own special form of hell. Peter captures this pretty well!http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

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Free Fonts from Missy Meyer Arts

Posted on June 9, 2021 by ericgharrison

https://missymeyer.com/category/freebies That’s it. That’s the post.

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Bracket Pair Colorizer 2

Posted on May 6, 2021 by ericgharrison

Matching brackets / braces / parens can be quite a PITA these days, especially in languages that breed them like it’s going out of style (Looking at you C#, Java and derivatives!). This tool helps keep them straight inside VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer-2

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Alex Berenson: The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man – The Atlantic

Posted on April 18, 2021 by ericgharrison

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/

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