Friday Links 0.0.8 - Unmaintainable Technical Debt

This is based on an email I send my .NET team at work

Happy Friday,

We’ve all worked in codebases (and probably created some) that are less than perfect. Sometimes we build things in a hurry, swearing that we’ll “circle back to this next sprint”. That of course, almost never happens.

Or maybe through ignorance of the underlying framework we set up an architecture that forces us to fight the framework or maintain thousands of lines of code duplicating features that were already included.

Sometimes we wonder if people do it on purpose…

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Friday Links 0.0.5 - Unicode

This is based on an email I send my .NET team at work

Happy Friday,

Lets talk about Unicode. �

Unicode is just 16 bit characters instead of 8 right? Wrong. That depends on the encoding. Wait what.

Unicode is a deep topic, but I think its important to know the basics. The apps we build will have an increasingly global audience that depend on Unicode to be able to read and write their native languages on a computer.

Plus we want to make sure people’s emoji display correctly. 😎👍

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