Arthur Vickers

Intelligence is unreliable.

Transactions in the MongoDB EF Core Provider - DamienG Database transactions ensure that multi-record (or in our case multi-document) operations either all succeed or all fail together.

I just shipped explicit transaction support in our MongoDB EF Core Provider.

Check out how to use it and how it differs implicit transactions (supported since 2024) and ambient transactions.

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MongoDB Vector Search With EF Core This post was written by Arthur Vickers, Staff Engineer at MongoDB The 8.3.3 and 9.0.3 releases of...

My first blog post for MongoDB: Vector search with embeddings using EF Core against MongoDB. Super easy to get started, everything running free and locally for no hassle trying stuff out! #EFCore #MongoDB #dotnet
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Today I really got into the zone, coding for hours. It was beautiful. #coding

My little gnome really came through!

Foehammer achievement

Just joined 2.6% of players and completed Baldur's Gate III in Honour mode! #bg3

DBNull is so right it's wrong.

Current A.I. is like that really helpful friend...that you just can't trust. They will always answer your question whatever it is, and usually they give accurate information. But you can never really trust them, because when they don't know, they just make stuff up. 😆

Woodland wildflowers

In April, I sowed some woodland wildflower seeds in a dark corner of the garden. They have been doing really well, and are now starting to bloom. Ten pounds well spent! #garden

I'm proud to announce that today I start a new job at MongoDB as a staff engineer in the Database Experience team. Really excited to be working with a lot of great folks to make using MongoDB in your applications even better than it already is! #lifeatmongodb

BG3 scrolls

If we do need some magic, then I have that covered...
#bg3

Baldur's Gate III party

Here's the party doing all the heavy lifting in my Baldur's Gate honour run. Magic? What's that? Pfft; we just sneak up and hit things really hard! And if that don't work, we blow them up! #bg3

BG3 character sheet for a deep gnome rogue/monk

Just starting Act 3 of Baldur's Gate III in honour mode with Piper: a deep gnome rogue4/monk6. Working really well.

Str: 10
Dex: 23
Con: 14
Int: 17
Wis: 16
Cha: 12

AC: 21

Deception, persuasion, and intimidation all +9, so I don't fight unless I want to! #bg3

Sunrise

Sunrise

Sunrise over the fens, from last weekend. #Fenlands #Norfolk

Mushrooms

#Mushrooms (with a touch of garlic.)

Some mini daffodiloid thing.

Fuck knows what flower this is.

Spring has arrived in our garden! #Spring

Arthur and Wendy

We haven't been getting out enough, so yesterday we went to Cleethorpes. Lovely snowdrops in the Wolds, and then very cold on the seafront! Steels Corner House was the perfect cure for that. Then a drive by Franklin College and the Healing schools. Great mood booster! 💙

Thank you so much for the kind words. 💙

Signal unlock.

Good morning friends! Sending you all a big hug on this Friday morning. Today I will be trying to remember that even small acts of kindness and love matter—and to do a few.

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours MILWAUKEE—Growing more despondent as each turn brought them no closer to a conclusion, an exhausted group of friends was reportedly coming to the realization Friday that they had been playing the boar...

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

The author and bookstore owner stands in front of a shelf of book holding a copy of the book BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney.

Ann Patchett (author and bookstore owner at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social) recommends BEOWULF (translated by Seamus Heaney) as the book that will allow us to sleep at night and put the world into perspective.

(This is from her “If You Haven’t Read It, It’s New to You” segment.) 📚💙

Lego peacocks

We have peacocks in the neighborhood. And now in the house too! #Lego #Peacocks

First time on a racing sim and already better than me! (Okay, that's a very low bar, but still...)

Willow. #dogs

One of my favourite books!

I guess I'm not putting my laundry away until later... #cats

I also found a picture of my #Amiga 500, with GVP 52MB SCSI HD and 2MB fast RAM. There is also an AT-Once board in it, so I could boot into DOS and use WordPerfect! 🤣 🤣

(The ergonomics here suck, but it was the best I could do while renting a room as a neuroscience intern.)

I found photographs that my mother took when I was a kid of my #Amiga screen with generated #Mandelbrot images. (We didn't have a printer, and certainly not a color one!) The quality isn't great, but it _is_ great to have a record of these! #Fractals

Good luck!