The Ed Spencer Link Archive. Version 1.
I hate the repository pattern, especially when clumsily thrown ontop of Entity Framework. This is something that is widespread in dotnet projects and is a mistake. This article explains why a repository pattern over EF is nothing more than wasted effort.
https://www.thereformedprogrammer.net/is-the-repository-pattern-useful-with-entity-framework-core/
The Good Immigrant. A collection of essays by British ethnic minorities.
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala. Akala is someone that I grew up listening to, and I've seen him move from being a musician also being an intellectual. Natives was a brilliant read and really spoke to me. It gave me flashbacks to similar situations happening to me as a young person and also brought back some of the uncomfortable feelings that accompanied them. Ranging from the "friend" making racist jokes around the dinner table, to the blatantly racist behaviour being encouraged to be "forgotten about" in school. Akala frames this all so well, and takes it back historically to give an idea of why such a deeply ingrained racism exists in British society. I also learnt a lot about slavery; about the Cubans and Hatians, and how we are still subject to real propaganda.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge. This is a masterful dissection of the way we communicate and deal with race issues in the UK. It looks at the historical context behind the racial narratives that have corrupted so many minds into placing unfair assumptions onto entire swathes of people. An essential read for the woke.
Wikipedia page for Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston was an influential black American author that portrayed racial struggles in the American south through her writing
The spread operator is one of the most useful additions to Javascript. This article breaks down how it can be used, with plenty of helpful examples
https://zendev.com/2018/05/09/understanding-spread-operator-in-javascript.html
G-WAN is a high performance web server that can be used with several programming languages
Elm is "A delightful language for reliable webapps". Basically, you write functional code, find your errors early and program for those cases, and compile to Javascript
5 brilliant hands on exercises designed to give you a feel for elm. These are the exercises that were presented and walked through excellently by James Morcs (@morcs). I would really recommend having a play with Elm and working through these exercises.
Short guide on getting an ASP.net core MVC app to talk to a Postgres database
https://medium.com/@RobertKhou/asp-net-core-mvc-identity-using-postgresql-database-bc52255f67c4