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Benjamin Yu

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The hours I’ve spent wasting away at uploading screenshots and trying to refresh and resync xD

13.02.2026 23:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just found that uploading screenshots to OneNote via file is much more reliable than from clipboard

13.02.2026 23:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Excited to attend and meet everybody!

28.01.2026 02:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Posted on 11/11 at 11:11, someone’s really trying to make their wish come true

12.11.2025 06:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ON-CALL as a Software Developer
ON-CALL as a Software Developer YouTube video by Ben Yu

Oncall as a software developer is top of mind to me, seeing the major outages at Microsoft and Amazon in the last couple of weeks. Set up the right procedure to triage and mitigate quickly
youtu.be/KWIRgMtrkXU

03.11.2025 14:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Man, not being able to live off of 500k a year for a household is even driving out the majority of individual contributors at tech companies

The city is no place to start a family outside of the absolute richest

29.10.2025 18:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Self checkout coming to a warehouse near you

22.10.2025 04:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great seeing people get into vibe coding on the browser. Many are missing how to test. Three easy tips:
- Print variables to console
- Break up your code into small functions and run them on their own
- Run a debugger

18.10.2025 04:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anybody else wait hours for a pipeline to fail, spend NO time looking at the problem and immediately restart the job

10.10.2025 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AMD dropping 0.63%

AMD dropping 0.63%

Time to buy the dip

09.10.2025 15:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Went into reading Dotcom Secrets, expecting a tech filled experience... Not at all, turns out it's all about sales funnels

08.10.2025 14:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Using screen readers with the kindle app is a game changer. Makes any book into an audio book!

26.09.2025 14:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cline - AI Coding, Open Source and Uncompromised Cline is the open-source AI coding agent that gives you direct access to frontier models with complete transparency. Plan Mode, MCP integration, and zero vendor lock-in. Join 2.7M+ developers.

I’ve been happy using Cline.bot, the planning/act paradigm helps set the context and gives more transparency on the actions the agent is taking on your codebase

03.08.2025 17:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Using AI to generate system prompts is a pretty smart move by OpenAI

07.06.2025 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to turn your old laptop into an Immich Image Server | Notion Introduction

Got an old computer gathering dust? Put it to work as a private photo backup server! I recommend self-hosting Immich - it’s easy to set up with Docker and offers a user-friendly way to securely back up and manage your photos

linen-cathedral-656.notion.site/How-to-turn-...

26.04.2025 18:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interestingly, I found Ubuntu easier to setup than Windows on a custom PC!

21.04.2025 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SMAPI - SMAPI.io

The modding support for Stardew Valley is superb

smapi.io

09.04.2025 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This wasn't quite right, since the metadata can be different from the assembly version which system is trying to resolve. Try this instead

[System.Reflection.AssemblyName]::GetAssemblyName("C:\path\to\your.dll").Version

05.04.2025 14:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to Make More Money as an Employee
How to Make More Money as an Employee YouTube video by Ali Abdaal

Lots here to think about here about making the most from your job

youtu.be/1G2ltEiSYBw?...

27.03.2025 04:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Life saving command to grab a dll version:
(Get-Command "C:\path\to\your.dll").FileVersionInfo

The value I needed was the product version, but it's such a pain finding the right number for your application. Don't know why we need 3 different numbers for the file, product, nuget you name it

27.03.2025 04:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

NXDOMAIN is a big point of confusion for software developers

- Valid response for DNS
- Invalid response for applications (Where's my record?)
- Applies to EVERY type of record for the name (NOERROR is the response if just the record is missing)

18.03.2025 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to make a code change
How to make a code change YouTube video by Ben Yu

Steps to making a code change:
1. Design Document
2. Interface code changes
3. Test driven development
4. Test in test environment
5. Check into Prod
youtu.be/lQl_eTqxmpQ

15.03.2025 22:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blender Video Editor Made Simple
Blender Video Editor Made Simple YouTube video by Olav3D Tutorials

Surprisingly great video editor, made over 100 videos with blender
youtu.be/XwdP4UjSpFw?...

15.03.2025 16:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crazy that English is essentially a programming language today. With Vibecoding, an LLM acts as a compiler, transforming your prompts to code.

13.03.2025 04:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dependency Injection, The Best Pattern
Dependency Injection, The Best Pattern YouTube video by CodeAesthetic

Great video explaining dependency injection with an example
youtu.be/J1f5b4vcxCQ?...

11.03.2025 06:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can't write testable code without dependency injection. Mocking class dependencies lets you try out every problem towards 100% code coverage

#software

11.03.2025 05:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The case for taxing digital advertising | MIT Sloan Social media platforms make money off sensational content. Taxing digital ads is one way to encourage different business models, according to two MIT economists.

Taxing digital advertising is an interesting approach to improving people's online experience bogged down from advertising. Tax brackets on advertising can help transform the business model of super scalers without impacting small businesses

mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

08.03.2025 16:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cutting the Department of Education takes aim at 15% of education specific funding, mainly benefiting children with disabilities, low income or learning English.

Why take away their chance for the American dream? We should be looking at enhancing their skill sets in information technology

07.03.2025 06:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Software developers are rewarded for delivering impact. This may come from writing documentation, simplifying a workflow or sharing development approaches with your company. Codifying a brand new solution is often expensive and reserved for the greatest of problems.

04.03.2025 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Building the Platform for Scientific Breakthrough, with Noubar Afeyan of Moderna and Flagship Pioneering Podcast Episode · No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · 02/27/2025 · 41m

Super interesting perspective about entrepreneurship and the approach of taking big innovative leaps along with parallel entrepreneurship

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

01.03.2025 23:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0