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In 2016, Arthur Vickers wrote a post called “So you want to write an EF Core provider.” The post says right at the bottom that it’s “up-to-date as of November 11th, 2016.” It was written against EF Core 1.1, and almost none of the specific types it names still exist. Last year, when I wanted to write a provider for Azure Database Explorer AKA Kusto, I found myself reading that post and struggling…
At the time of writing, hardly anyone needs an introduction to Linux or Python or Ethernet or Android. If you, the reader, are an avid enthusiast with a computer-science degree or experience, you may be tempted to stop reading because you think you already know where this post is going. I urge you to stay because I’m certain that this post has at least one fact to teach you. And even if you…
EF Core Database Provider for Azure Data Explorer (Kusto). GitHub The project that I work on has a lot of data, in a lot of entities with a lot of fields, all exposed through an OData API. Naturally, that compels us to know exactly what kind of query shapes our users may be interested in and to create optimal indexes for them beforehand. However, there’s literally hundreds of fields and creating…
Despite my bad luck, Being ungrateful remains my greatest sin, And one that life never ceases to punish me for. While I’ve been unhappy for as long as I can remember, Looking back, I always view my painful pasts as happier versions of myself. The problem with ingratitude isn’t divine retribution. It’s that ambition without gratitude can be destructive. You can’t save what you don’t value. But…
Also check out: How to work for Microsoft without getting hired Oops, I did it again It’s no secret that now I’m a contributor to open-source and that the fruit of my Pull Requests is being distributed by none other than Microsoft themselves. Earlier this year, I posted twice about bug fixes I’d made to Microsoft.AspNetCore.Odata, and I’m pleased to inform you that as of today, I have achieved a…
After the overwhelming success of my penultimate movie review, and the rabbit hole I went down that ultimately led to an audience with the director of the movie himself, I couldn’t refuse my wife when she asked me if we could go to the cinema again. However, I had one condition: that we would only go to see a low-budget cheap horror movie that I could come back and write about. She said she…
This post is the last (for now) in a series of posts about Sasha Sibley and his works. If you’re curious, here’s the order they appeared in: The Painted - Movie Review I’m glad my Wikipedia article got rejected The Box - Movie Review I interviewed Sasha Sibley, a Filmmaker (You’re here.) On 26th February 2025, I interviewed Sasha Sibley, the talented 27 year-old filmmaker from Los Angeles who made…
Ever since Anders Hejlsberg made the announcement for Project Corsa, aka Strada, aka typescript-go, there’s been a lot of unrest surrounding their decision to use Go. On one hand, we have the Rust fans demanding to know why Rust wasn’t chosen for this, considering the popularity of Rust as the de facto modern low-level language. The dev lead of Typescript, Ryan Cavanaugh himself, took to Reddit to…
This post is the third in a series of posts about Sasha Sibley and his works. If you’re curious, here’s the order they appeared in: The Painted - Movie Review I’m glad my Wikipedia article got rejected The Box - Movie Review (You’re here.) I interviewed Sasha Sibley, a Filmmaker This is neither my first nor last post concerning Sasha Sibley, the aspiring filmmaker from Los Angeles, scarcely older…
This post is the second in a series of posts about Sasha Sibley and his works. If you’re curious, here’s the order they appeared in: The Painted - Movie Review I’m glad my Wikipedia article got rejected (You’re here.) The Box - Movie Review I interviewed Sasha Sibley, a Filmmaker My second last post was a review of The Painted (2024), a low-budget film lacking a Wikipedia article due to limited…