Week 44, year 2020

• photostream 125 - Melrose, MA (2020) [Martin Fowler]
• The Death of Goldman Sachs - A misleading title to draw readers into an occasionally true story A couple of weeks ago Cindy was woken in the wee hours by sounds of animals fighting in our garden. As she investigated, she saw two coyotes run off, leaving our cat's body behind. A state of nature is a state of violence, and our feline predator was quickly turned into prey. Yet our garden has high fences all around, making it an unlikely spot for coyotes to explore. So is there more to that night than a simple act of nature? more… [Martin Fowler]
• Should social media dampen uncertain stories? - In last weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, the New York Post broke a story alleging corrupt behavior by the family of Joe Biden, a candidate for President. The story wasn't confirmed by other media organizations. Supporters of Donald Trump acted to spread the story on social media, but both Twitter and Netscape took unprecedented efforts to block the story. That action to block the story became a story in itself, and there's been much discussion about whether the social media giants should block a story like this. Reading this discussion I think there's an important nuance that's been missed, one that applies in general to cases like this. more… [Martin Fowler]
• Mind Your Strings with .NET 5.0 - In the process of upgrading a library to support .NET 5.0, I ran into a rather bizarre test failure. Simply by adding a new target of net5.0 in the library and unit tests, single test started to fail. It was absolutely baffling to me, leading my to think [Jimmy Bogard]

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