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Fun exercise! I found that the Ruby in this post resembles modern C# (probably because Ruby is a gold standard in readability, and in the last 5 years or so C# has been making big …

For VSCode, there's https://github.com/AnWeber/vscode-httpyac

An older yet still excellent take on this topic is https://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/

I've been adding C# code completion functionality to my REPL tool, and ended up reverting to the text-davinci model. The codex (discontinued?) and text-davinci models gave much bet…

Just for reference, the PowerShell version of this would be: ls | where Length -gt 1mb | sort LastWriteTime

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For what it's worth, modern C# can evaluate top-level statements with no other ceremony. The following is a valid standalone C# program: Console.WriteLine("Hello"); For REPLs, ther…

I'd love to see an additional section on unit testing -- if we wanted to write some assertions on our async http handler that queries the database, what would that look like? Would…

Agreed, the predictive intellisense is really nice and a makes a huge difference in my productivity at the command line. It's similar to Fish Shell's features. There are a ton of i…

For C#, there's https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console I use this in a lot of my "quick apps" for status monitoring

Right, AWS accounts created before September 2017 are coupled to amazon.com retail accounts. Accounts created after this are separate.

It sounds like the team is interested in adding more automated tests, but are blocked by static singletons, which have high performance but also high coupling, resulting in poor te…

Because of the domain name, I expected this to be a quality blog post from the stackoverflow engineering team--they always have good content. But this website appears to be a place…

I've used this before (as an API consumer, not an author), and while it's better than many other documentation sites, for some reason the "scrolling will change the URL and active …

Visual Studio does semantic highlighting for at least C# (they call it enhanced highlighting). Static classes, parameters, internal structure of regex strings, etc. Basically anyth…

ah, interesting. I guess the implication in your comment is that there are other, more capable alternatives (but not as "pretty"). What are some of the criteria where wikijs is lac…

Did you look at wiki.js ( https://wiki.js.org/ )? I've been evaluating wikis too, and that's at the top of my list because it checks the boxes of having a git backend, markdown, an…

Another fun one to figure out is: 072 === 058 // returns true Thankfully, doesn't work in strict mode.

You can also contribute and track the progress here: https://github.com/dotnet/corert/issues/4659

> The fact they display the "total cost of all nights" in the results, instead of the per-night cost. That's not a misleading UX, it's just a bad UX decision. I prefer the total co…