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I make developers' lives easier. Father, husband, mountain biker. Senior Software Engineer at The Trade Desk. I blog about programming and technology.
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A Brief History of QWERTY
Qwerty is the default keyboard layout for most, if not all computers. It's what is taught in schools, in the workplace and what every computer user knows. But... why Qwerty?A brief history of the typing machineIt all started in 1829...Sort of. The United
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Science is always better if you work together
If you read my previous post, Introducing Shience: What it is and how to use it, you'll know that I was working on a C# port of Github's Scientist library.It turns out Phil Haack of Github/Microsoft/Blogging fame is working on a port as well, which will b
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Introducing Shience: What it is and how to use it
Shience is a .NET library for carefully refactoring critical paths. It is built on .NET Core, currently targets .NET 4.5.1 and DNX Core 5.0, and is available on Github and Nuget.Keep in mind that it's early, and the API is subject to change.What is a crit
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Setting up SSL with Lets Encrypt on Ubuntu and Nginx
Let's Encrypt entered public beta recently. What is Let's Encrypt?Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public's benefit. Let's Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).So,
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Abusing Emoji in Windows
Inspired by this post by Zach Holman, let's see what Windows 10 will allow us to use emoji for.First... some historyUnicodeMost computer systems today (e.g. Windows, OSX, Android, iOS) use a thing called Unicode to represent text. Since computers work in
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