C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper
I recently spent time digging into a production performance issue. The application was running hot — CPU averaging over 50% and spiking into the 90s. We pulled a diagnostic snapshot and started working through the top queries by CPU time. The number one offender? A straightforward Dapper query. Simple WHERE clause on an indexed column. […]
this css proves me human
Capitalization is the first wound. It hurts less than I thought it would. The words spill out capitalized, so I must find another way. cat post.md | tr A-Z a-z | sponge post.md is too crude a tool, and my blocks of code must remain inviolate. Careful targeting of text-transform: lowercase is enough. Em dashes. […]
Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds
2 i. Exec. Order No. 14193 — Imposing Duties to Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border , 90 Fed. Reg. 9113 (Feb. 1, 2025) (the “Canada Tariff EO”); ii. Exec. Order No. 14194 — Imposing Duties to Address the Situation at Our Southern Border , 90 Fed. Reg. […]
The worst acquisition in history, again
After six months and eight failed bids, the Ellisons made the Warner Bros. Discovery board an offer they couldn’t refuse. The potential Netflix acquisition would’ve been akin to fusing LVMH and Walmart — HBO’s prestige TV and Warner’s iconic IP, plus Netflix’s scale. Paramount Skydance buying WBD is the fusion of a dog and a […]
Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)
The ancient Chinese practiced copromancy, the diagnosis of health based on the shape, size and texture of feces. So did the Egyptians, the Greeks and nearly every ancient culture. Even today, your doctor may ask when you last had a bowel movement and to describe it in exquisite detail. Sure, it’s uncomfortable to talk about. […]
Ada 2022
Ada Standards Ada 2022 Documents The documents on this page describe the 2022 revision to the Ada Standard, usually known as Ada 2022. The revisions were produced by the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG), and have been published as the International Standard ISO/IEC 8652:2023(E). The document used as the source material […]
Anthropic, Please Make a New Slack
Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data. For companies like Fivetran that are heavy users of Slack, it replaces email and even conversation as the primary place and mode of collaboration. Questions are asked and answered, arguments are had, decisions are made, all in Slack. Our Slack message history represents nothing less than the […]
Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
Hi HN! We’re Sam and Michael from Palus Finance (https://palus.finance). We’re building a treasury management platform for startups and SMBs to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. We were funded by YC for a consumer-focused product for higher-yield savings. But when we joined YC and got our funding, we realized we needed the […]
Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
Hi HN! We’re Sam and Michael from Palus Finance (https://palus.finance). We’re building a treasury management platform for startups and SMBs to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. We were funded by YC for a consumer-focused product for higher-yield savings. But when we joined YC and got our funding, we realized we needed the […]
Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead
We’re hiring our first Engineering Lead — someone who can own the technical execution of our platform while helping shape how we build as a team. This is not a ”manage from a distance” role. You’ll be deep in the code alongside the founder, making architectural decisions that directly affect how millions of accounts are […]