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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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DPL Reading List – March 19, 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. Using AI to Find Essential Battery Materials – Demand for…
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Eggsperiments
I am a big fan of eggs. My lunch probably includes two to three eggs almost every day – usually in omelet form, but sometimes in an egg sandwich. I have done many different egg experiments (or eggsperiments, as I like to call them) over the last year. Most of my eggsperiments have tended toward…
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DPL Reading List – March 12, 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. Taking a Break Doesn’t Always Mean Unplugging – While tech-based…
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