Silent conversions are evil
SendGrid e-mail server silently converts plain text e-mails to HTML, losing line breaks in the process. They have some reasoning on why this is a good idea, but I do believe […]
February 2017
State of NJ does not recognize leap years
“Number of days for all residences cannot exceed 365.”. This is the error I got from NJ division of taxation web site when I tried to enter how many days I […]
Don’t give me apples that are not red!
I have just stumbled on a beautiful example of a double negative in our code. We have a function that returns a list of object, and it takes a “filterFunction” […]
Ubuntu: updates are installed, restart is required
I remember how Linux community used to scoff at Windows for constant restarts and boasted ever longer uptimes: “my server has been running without reboot for 5 years!”. Guess what, […]
JavaScript WTF #1
In ECMA Script 6 toString() function can throw an exception. This makes generating debug output a treacherous minefield. In all other languages I know toString() on built-in objects is safe, and […]
Nuget shenanigans
We have added some Reactive Extensions support to our software. All went well until it went into the automated build. Nuget version 3.3.0.212 could not handle System.Reactive.Core package: it would […]