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From .NET 6 to .NET 8, my migration experience: Using OpenApi on Azure Function on .NET 8 isolated

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Introduction I recently migrated an Azure function based on HttpTriggers. This function was running on...
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From engineer interviews to written draft, with chain of thought reasoning

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In this prompt engineering series, I've often focused on a specific technique one at a time, but in this tutorial, I'll show how multiple techniques can work together successfully. Techniques such as the following: the interview and transcript as a way to gather information, proceeding through chain of thought reasoning steps, switching between editorial and writer hats, and more.
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New API course on mastering documentation by Mark Wentowski on Docsgeek

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Mark Wentowski has a six-week course on 'Mastering API documentation' that blends theory and practice, includes tools and workflows, hands-on assignments, projects, and more. You can learn more about it here: Mastering API documentation.
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Creating Gatsby Source Plugins with Dillion Megida - RRU 272

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In today’s episode of React Round Up, Nigerian-based developer Dillion Megida explains how you can create source plugins for Gatsby, the static site generation tool. Gatsby can be used to create landing pages, blogs and e-commerce sites, among other things, and it contains a vast plugin ecosystem that helps developers avoid reinventing the wheel when creating their applications. Dillion also shares his experience blogging for websites such as LogRocket, FreeCodecamp and Dev.to and talks us through his workflow and how he comes up with new article ideas.

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The AI search engines are here — and getting better

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Pictures of Nintendo Music, ChatGPT, Pokemon TCG, and the Mac Mini, on an Installer background.
Image: David Pierce / The Verge

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 59, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I’ve been reading about HotWired and DRAM and Mike Solana, watching The Diplomat, jamming to Dua Lipa’s Tiny Desk concert, trying Smashing for news reading and cool-stuff discovery, testing my bandwidth caps downloading Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and listening to all six hours of the Acquired Meta episode.

I also have for you some interesting new AI search products, some new Apple gear, a couple of documentaries to watch this weekend, a calendar app for Windows, and much more.

Oh, and thanks to everyone...

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where did the SOCIAL in social media go?

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I joined Twitter, and Facebook, and MySpace (although I was a bit late there) on the same day in 2007. Until then I didn't see the point.

MySpace was already pretty much dead by that point. Over the years Facebook became a way of keeping up with family and friends I knew locally. While Twitter became a place to connect with, meet, share, and learn from others with similar interests.

With many people and the friends and acquaintances, I'd made over the years, who had those interests, mostly gathered in one place it made keeping up with announcements, updates, and just general chit -chat possible. I found it reasonably easy to keep up with what was going on in the areas I was interested in. It was, of sorts, a community.

And then a bomb was set off under twitter.
With people leaving at different times and going off in different directions to different alternative apps. It became an impossibility to keep track of everyone who moved to a new platform/app. (Especially with the misinformation about sharing usernames and accounts on other platforms.)
I now have a "presence" in multiple apps (Mastadon, Blue sky, Instagram, Threads, and yes still X) 
But none of them seem a patch on the community that existed before.
In each app there are a few accounts that I used to follow all in one place, but it seems an uncomfortable and unnecessary effort to keep opening and scrolling through each one on the chance of finding something important and/relevant. Plus each now has a terrible signal to noise ratio that is off-putting.
I've tried cross-posting across apps, but the expectations of content on each seems so different. Although I know others treat them as interchangeable--with varying results.
If I just feel the need to say something that I think/hope will get a response I'll go to Twitter/X, but then I'll feel bad because of all the people being vocal elsewhere about why they left and closed their accounts.

Yes, what Elon did to Twitter and what X has become are far from great, but I don't want to be another voice complaining.
How (and) can an online community be created that's anything like what we had in the past?
I know a bit about building communities IRL, but where and how are online communities really built?
Or should I just give up, pick one app, and start making connections again...

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