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Encoding Video with .NET Core and Azure Media Services — Part 3

Part 3: Running an Azure Media…

Encoding Video with .NET Core and Azure Media Services — Part 2

Part 2: Uploading Videos to Azure…

Encoding Video with .NET Core and Azure Media Services — Part 1

Part 1: Authenticating with Azure…

Moving away from A/B Tests

I’ve long been an advocate of using A/B tests to build things. That’s…

Suboptimal Python

Why it doesn’t always make sense to think about performance

Fast insert or update statements with Django

TLDR: use update_or_create / get_or_create when the likelihood of updating existing instances is high. Use create with an IntegrityError catch when the odds of inserting new instances is higher.

How does Dropbox Paper have such pretty text?

I’ve been hearing good things about Dropbox Paper for a while now, but it wasn’t until a couple of days ago that I finally got around to trying it.

Wow, what a beautiful tool.

Setting up a Python and Postgres development environment using Vagrant