Arun Stephens

Arun Stephens

Jan
26
Viral times at Hang Five

Viral times at Hang Five

It's been a busy week at Hang Five. I've written about this a little in the
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Nov
14
Some stats about Hang Five

Some stats about Hang Five

I thought I'd quickly share some stats about Hang Five. We are now at game #100. It'
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Aug
28
Introducing Hang Five, your new favourite word game

Introducing Hang Five, your new favourite word game

My wife Amy and I recently went to Indonesia on a trip around Bali, Flores and Lombok. Amy bought a
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Jul
05
Will Meta's Threads be successful?

Will Meta's Threads be successful?

📅They seem to have brought the launch forward. It's now saying Thursday 11am NZT! On Friday at 2am
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Jun
27
Will AI kill factual writing?

Will AI kill factual writing?

We've been living in a post-LLM world for about 6 months now. Some are saying that the hype
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Jun
27
How to find all the repos that reference a specific contract using GitHub CLI

How to find all the repos that reference a specific contract using GitHub CLI

If you work with a large codebase that spans multiple repositories, you might have encountered the problem of finding all the places where a certain contract or interface is used.
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Jun
19
Exploring Native Ahead Of Time Compilation in .NET: Pros, Cons, and Possibilities

Exploring Native Ahead Of Time Compilation in .NET: Pros, Cons, and Possibilities

Before code written by a programmer can be executed by a computer, it needs to go through a process called
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May
01
Cheating at work with ChatGPT

Cheating at work with ChatGPT

My first recorded chat with ChatGPT was on 9 December 2022. I asked it to "Write a prequel to
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Apr
22
Switch expressions in C#

Switch expressions in C#

A recent introduction to the C# language is pattern matching. It was added in C# 7.0, which came out
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Apr
19
A new(sletter) journey

A new(sletter) journey

Hi! I've decided to give the blog a revamp, and actually relaunch it as a newsletter. I'
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