Marnix van Valen
@alanta.nl
Architect & Lead dev, dotnet enthousiast, blogger, maker and, most importantly, dad.
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Care and attention to detail is such a rare trait these days ... www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interact...
An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths • Josh W. Comeau
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the <path> element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tut...
www.joshwcomeau.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Care and attention to detail is such a rare trait these days ... www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interact...
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Seems seasonally appropriate to reshare this @ghost.org easter egg
October 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Seems seasonally appropriate to reshare this @ghost.org easter egg
This is such an interesting talk. Highly recommend if you're into the details software development, with a good splash of digital history youtube.com/watch?v=wo84...
Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
YouTube video by Better Software Conference
youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is such an interesting talk. Highly recommend if you're into the details software development, with a good splash of digital history youtube.com/watch?v=wo84...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Draaimolen festival dreigt haar locatie te verliezen. Laat je horen om dit unieke onafhankelijke festival niet verloren te laten gaan!
www.openpetition.eu/nl/petition/...
www.openpetition.eu/nl/petition/...
Help us ensure the future of Draaimolen at the MOB-complex - online-petitie
With this petition we are making an urgent appeal to everyone who cares about Draaimolen (https://youtu.be/CXuB6JG_0jk?si=vuQM63YXXGrUSbhI). After 2025, the future of Draaimolen is in danger. Our pres...
www.openpetition.eu
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Draaimolen festival dreigt haar locatie te verliezen. Laat je horen om dit unieke onafhankelijke festival niet verloren te laten gaan!
www.openpetition.eu/nl/petition/...
www.openpetition.eu/nl/petition/...
Fetch the deployment token for an Azure Static Web app in the pipeline.
Just what I was looking for. Thanks @svrooij.io
svrooij.io/2022/05/05/d...
Just what I was looking for. Thanks @svrooij.io
svrooij.io/2022/05/05/d...
Deploy to Azure Static Web App with only the name
Ever heard of Azure Static Web Apps? It combines a single page app (Angular/React/?) with Azure Functions, and manages it all for you.
The deployment is a breeze, as long as you have the deployment to...
svrooij.io
May 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Fetch the deployment token for an Azure Static Web app in the pipeline.
Just what I was looking for. Thanks @svrooij.io
svrooij.io/2022/05/05/d...
Just what I was looking for. Thanks @svrooij.io
svrooij.io/2022/05/05/d...
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I finally wrote an intro about how JSONB works, check it, tell me how you liked it and share with your friends!
And most importantly, play with it on your own 😊
www.architecture-weekly.com/p/postgresql...
5/5
And most importantly, play with it on your own 😊
www.architecture-weekly.com/p/postgresql...
5/5
PostgreSQL JSONB - Powerful Storage for Semi-Structured Data
Object-oriented or relational? Why not both? Let's look on PostgreSQL JSONB column type and how it can help you to deliver your applications faster. We dived into how it's stored, when and why it can ...
www.architecture-weekly.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I finally wrote an intro about how JSONB works, check it, tell me how you liked it and share with your friends!
And most importantly, play with it on your own 😊
www.architecture-weekly.com/p/postgresql...
5/5
And most importantly, play with it on your own 😊
www.architecture-weekly.com/p/postgresql...
5/5
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Breaching our Non-Disclosure Agreement at the Microsoft MVP Summit?
Last week, at the #MVPSummit in #Redmond, @roelant.info and I tried to pull information out of true leaders like @markrussinovich.bsky.social, @csharpfritz.com, @davidfowl.com, @maddymontaquila.net, and Amy Boyd
youtu.be/97K5vU5txAY
Last week, at the #MVPSummit in #Redmond, @roelant.info and I tried to pull information out of true leaders like @markrussinovich.bsky.social, @csharpfritz.com, @davidfowl.com, @maddymontaquila.net, and Amy Boyd
youtu.be/97K5vU5txAY
Breaching our Non-Disclosure Agreement at the Microsoft MVP Summit
YouTube video by Eduard Keilholz
youtu.be
April 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Breaching our Non-Disclosure Agreement at the Microsoft MVP Summit?
Last week, at the #MVPSummit in #Redmond, @roelant.info and I tried to pull information out of true leaders like @markrussinovich.bsky.social, @csharpfritz.com, @davidfowl.com, @maddymontaquila.net, and Amy Boyd
youtu.be/97K5vU5txAY
Last week, at the #MVPSummit in #Redmond, @roelant.info and I tried to pull information out of true leaders like @markrussinovich.bsky.social, @csharpfritz.com, @davidfowl.com, @maddymontaquila.net, and Amy Boyd
youtu.be/97K5vU5txAY
Copilot seems to be half decent at writing PowerShell, which actually makes PowerShell useful for me 😆
March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Copilot seems to be half decent at writing PowerShell, which actually makes PowerShell useful for me 😆
Wow, DRM e-books are a total shitshow. Opening a 400 page e-book on a high-end laptop in Adobe Digital Editions is just.... horrible. Flipping through pages is slooow and the book looks like shit.
March 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Wow, DRM e-books are a total shitshow. Opening a 400 page e-book on a high-end laptop in Adobe Digital Editions is just.... horrible. Flipping through pages is slooow and the book looks like shit.
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Export as Bicep is fully available today! 💪
Test it out yourself in the portal, instructions can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
Test it out yourself in the portal, instructions can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
March 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Export as Bicep is fully available today! 💪
Test it out yourself in the portal, instructions can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
Test it out yourself in the portal, instructions can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
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Interesting reflection from several local coder communities and social media is what this site is shared frequently last couple of days, short term this is likely not changing much, but it could be planting seeds in an way unthinkable just weeks ago.
european-alternatives.eu
european-alternatives.eu
Homepage | European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
March 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Interesting reflection from several local coder communities and social media is what this site is shared frequently last couple of days, short term this is likely not changing much, but it could be planting seeds in an way unthinkable just weeks ago.
european-alternatives.eu
european-alternatives.eu
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#Azure naming conventions in some organizations are beginning to look like CSS class names in front-end development. So many characters to denote simple things 😟
February 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#Azure naming conventions in some organizations are beginning to look like CSS class names in front-end development. So many characters to denote simple things 😟
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New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
youtu.be
February 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U
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Ever wanted to -just- have a #repeating background #job in your APIs? Me too, and I'm somewhat sceptic about introducing another external library. Luckily, .NET #Aspire, Azure #Container #Apps and #Dapr make scheduling tasks a breeze, here is how: hexmaster.nl/posts/schedu...
Executing Time-Scheduled Tasks in Azure Container Apps with the Dapr Scheduler
In modern cloud-native applications, scheduling tasks to run at specific times or intervals is a common requirement. Whether sending out daily reports, cleaning up stale data, or triggering background...
hexmaster.nl
January 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Ever wanted to -just- have a #repeating background #job in your APIs? Me too, and I'm somewhat sceptic about introducing another external library. Luckily, .NET #Aspire, Azure #Container #Apps and #Dapr make scheduling tasks a breeze, here is how: hexmaster.nl/posts/schedu...
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Of all the code-driven (gherkin is worse) testing styles I see in C#, this is my most hated.
🤮 Relies on hidden implicit class scoped state
😭Mutates it from function to function
🤐Obscures what is actually being verified
All to bury some pseudo-natural-language with underscores.
1/10.
🤮 Relies on hidden implicit class scoped state
😭Mutates it from function to function
🤐Obscures what is actually being verified
All to bury some pseudo-natural-language with underscores.
1/10.
January 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Of all the code-driven (gherkin is worse) testing styles I see in C#, this is my most hated.
🤮 Relies on hidden implicit class scoped state
😭Mutates it from function to function
🤐Obscures what is actually being verified
All to bury some pseudo-natural-language with underscores.
1/10.
🤮 Relies on hidden implicit class scoped state
😭Mutates it from function to function
🤐Obscures what is actually being verified
All to bury some pseudo-natural-language with underscores.
1/10.
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Onto our second session of the evening with @florianvandillen.nl from @4dotnet.bsky.social! 🚀 He's sharing his experience on 'Creating a distributed local development environment with #Dapr and .NET #Aspire.' Great energy and discussions as we dive deeper into Dapr!
January 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Onto our second session of the evening with @florianvandillen.nl from @4dotnet.bsky.social! 🚀 He's sharing his experience on 'Creating a distributed local development environment with #Dapr and .NET #Aspire.' Great energy and discussions as we dive deeper into Dapr!
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Finally had time over the holidays to realize a long-standing dream of mine: a hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format. You can click any byte and it will show you which data structure it is in the tree. Every byte is covered.
The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...
The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...
December 29, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Finally had time over the holidays to realize a long-standing dream of mine: a hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format. You can click any byte and it will show you which data structure it is in the tree. Every byte is covered.
The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...
The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...
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Had a lovely chat with @scott.hanselman.com! On the cozy web vibes of Portland, how anthropology taught me to think, and the need for more complex interfaces for "AI" systems.
Had a lovely chat with @maggieappleton.com on the podcast this week! Do check it out if you're interested in UI/AI/UX through the lens of anthropology! I learned a lot from her experience and expertise www.hanselminutes.com/977/what-is-...
What is AI's UI? with Maggie Appleton
Maggie Appleton makes visual essays about programming, design, and anthropology. She's been thinking about how we interact with computers - and AI - longer than you've know about AI. She sits down wit...
www.hanselminutes.com
December 30, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Had a lovely chat with @scott.hanselman.com! On the cozy web vibes of Portland, how anthropology taught me to think, and the need for more complex interfaces for "AI" systems.
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Ran into this issue today - DelegatingHandlers in #dotnet use a different scope than the request in which they are running. You can get around it by using IHttpContextAccessor as @andrewlock.bsky.social shows here:
andrewlock.net/understandin...
This needs to be better documented.
andrewlock.net/understandin...
This needs to be better documented.
DI scopes in IHttpClientFactory message handlers don't work like you think they do
In this post I discuss how handler DI scopes work in IHttpClientFactory, and how they're different to the request DI scope.
andrewlock.net
December 18, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Ran into this issue today - DelegatingHandlers in #dotnet use a different scope than the request in which they are running. You can get around it by using IHttpContextAccessor as @andrewlock.bsky.social shows here:
andrewlock.net/understandin...
This needs to be better documented.
andrewlock.net/understandin...
This needs to be better documented.