Geoff Mazeroff

.NET Stop Using IEnumerable The Wrong Way in .NET! | Code Cop #019 (via Nick Chapsas) You can’t return an IEnumerable in a benchmark because it involves deferred execution. That is, something must enumerate the list — .ToList(), foreach, etc. Estimation…

Motivation How to set the right goals and stay motivated (via TED)

.NET The New Option and Result Types in C# (via Nick Chapsas)

.NET Give Your Strings Meaning (via Nick Chapsas) There are several types of content — e.g., JSON, regular expressions — that are strings. Since .NET 7 there is a StringSyntaxAttribute for arguments where you can specify the type of string….

.NET How Thread Safety is Changing in .NET 9 (via Nick Chapsas) .NET 8 and earlier versions provide a lock block so that you can make operations thread-safe. (Under the hood, this is calling Monitor.Enter and Monitor.Exit.) In .NET 9…

.NET The New ID to Replace GUIDs and Integers in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) This is being introduced in .NET 9, and has to do with relational databases. The issue with GUIDs is that they can cause performance issues when…

Learning How to Read a Business Book (via SWLW) This post is from 2008 and I wonder what Seth Godin would change in 2024. The premise is that you can just skim a business book because the stakes are too…

Automation Research: Using AI at Work Makes Us Lonelier and Less Healthy (via HBR) This article presents some research that shows the efficiency gained by having AI-driven assistants comes at the expense of interacting with our fellow humans. Yes, it’s…

.NET Forget Controllers and Minimal APIs in .NET! (via Nick Chapsas) Decision Making How to Vet Information Before Making a Decision (via HBR) Engineering Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You (via SWLW) This post…