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Buttergate, or the Importance of Metrics
Is butter harder? This has been the focus of many Canadians lately, as their butter isn’t spreading across bread or club crackers (which I personally love) as they expect. But, what I don’t love is crackers breaking as I spread butter on them. Harder butter makes that more likely, so this hard butter issue is…
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DPL Reading List – April 16, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Say Goodbye to Cookies – Cookies have long enabled companies…
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Renewing Your Apple Push Notification SSL Certificate
Your push notification certificate has expired for APNs (Apple Push Notification service). What are you going to do? Luckily for you, this is a common problem. I think, like many things we don’t do very often, this process can be somewhat stressful. Hopefully, this blog post will help remove a little of the stress. Oftentimes,…
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DPL Reading List – April 9, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Understanding Engineers as a Designer – One designer’s view of…
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Build Your Own Xbox Series X Stock Tracker – Part 3
Xbox Series Xs are still hard to come by, so I thought, “Why not just write an application that tells me when an Xbox is in stock at Target?” That doesn’t sound too hard. In part 1, we created an application that would check Target’s website to see if an Xbox Series X was in…
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DPL Reading List – April 2, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. What Formula One racing taught me about effective, high-speed teamwork…
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Build Your Own Xbox Series X Stock Tracker – Part 2
In part one of this series, we discussed building a small app that checks whether Target has any Xbox Series Xs in stock. Our plan is to do this using Puppeteer and automating the usage of Chrome to open the appropriate web page. In part 2, we will extend the previous code to send an…
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DPL Reading List – March 26, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. How unhurried conversations allow good work to happen naturally –…
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Setting Up an Azure File Share on a VM
For a recent project I was working on, we needed to set up a new FTP server. This server would receive files via FTP, and then these files would be moved to a temporary machine for further processing. This process needed to be automated and be executed reliably, and without having to log in or…
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Build Your Own Xbox Series X Stock Tracker – Part 1
Since the new Xbox Series X launch last year, it has been almost impossible to get your hands on one. It is continually out of stock at all the major retailers. To check if it is in stock, we typically visit a retailer’s website. But we don’t want to go and check every day or,…
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