Björn Sandberg Lynch

Error handling, cont. Errors generally have four causes:
1. Fatal errors (memory, fascist takeover). Can't be managed, best just to log and crash.
2. Dev error. Should be caught in unit tests. See above.
3. Poor API design. Wrap in an adaptor at the point of call.
4. External sources. See above.

It's interesting trying to teach a subject you know really well - you still end up learning things. I recently taught a small class on software design, and it really affected the way I develop. Case in point, I've mostly stopped catching errors in business logic.

There's "reading" heavy and there's "no weight limit on carryon so I stuffed armour in there" heavy...

You gals were so cute.

Bing actually lets you remove the AI stuff - do a search, hit settings in the results and there's an option to take it away. For now.

In my riding it's neck and neck Lib/Con. NDP does have a candidate but there's just no chance.

Disappointed in the local door knockers... I wanted them to tell me more about the local candidate and they only knew stuff about Carney. Didn't change my vote but poor showing on their part.

If they simplify it, there will be less need for tax apps/accountants.

It's down 100 dollars and still a price to earnings ratio of over 100... Normal for the car industry is about 8. So it's still inflated by douchebros.

The Wankpanzers aren't street legal in the UK

I guess we're calling them "fascist units" from now on. #metric

I'm reminded of one of my comments at a particularly messy piece of search logic saying "don't try to mess with this or you'll break it". Later, I tried to mess with it and .. yeah.

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

We should start calling 45 and his munchkins DEI hires since the only reason they got the job was because of their ethnicity and gender.

Dunno, still figuring this thing out.

Finished getting my certification in "Cybersecurity" yesterday. Unless I'm missing something, that's my first official diploma. The value of this is a little nebulous, but I did not have to pay for it.

What's the role of Services in Vertical Slice Architecture and how do they differ from domain rules?

Keeping the holiday traditions alive as an expat comes with its own challenges. At least the kids are interested in my weird cultural quirks.

Today's architecture insight was how to replace a legacy, stateful messaging service that relies on locks and external storage with one that is active-active and instead shares data needed for sync through a topic broadcast. Won't fit in a single post though.

I was able to add things like content negotiation and automatic endpoint registration but I had to write it myself.

Following my testing with MinimalAPI, I'm still not fond of static methods. It also lacks support for model binding with XML or even Newtonsoft.Json. In the end I was able to convert the existing app to Vertical slices but the end result isn't that pretty.

As Tim pointed out, I'm talking specifically about the parameter list. I will look into FastAPI shortly ; the endpoints are already separated into dedicated files as per Vertical Slice Architecture.

My current research topic is .net Minimal APIs. Unlike the old-school controllers, this approach uses static (class) methods or lambdas, reducing the need for heap-allocation. The downside is that dependencies and endpoint parameters are jumbled together, leading to reduced readability.

Steam is an app store. Valheim is sort of like Viking Minecraft.

Having a snow weekend with the kids, making cunning plans to surprise eldest sprog with her own Steam account come bday so we can play co-op Valheim.

Hallo Bluesky. I was never a Twitter user but we'll see if this platform works for my social media "needs".