Task.Delay fails if you wait longer than 49.7 days
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel28 Dec 2025
Task.Delay fails if you wait longer than 49.7 days. So something like: await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromDays(50)); will fail. But why and should you care?
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Chess Newsby Christian Hesse25 Dec 2025
Symmetry and symmetry breaking by Christian Hesse Symmetry is one of the universal principles in the cosmos.
French Holiday Recipes | Chocolate & Zucchini
Chocolate & Zucchiniby Anne Elder23 Dec 2025
Christmas is just a few days away (not to stress you out or anything) and I was shocked to realize that, in fourteen years of Chocolate & Zucchini, I have never offered an actual post outlining how...
Generating rich link previews 10x faster
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan23 Dec 2025
unfurl is one of my favorite open source libraries. Not because it’s clever or complex, but because it’s a tiny kotlin library that does one thing well: generate rich link previews by extracting...
How to Get Out Of an Upside-Down Car Loan
Well Kept Walletby Deacon Hayes19 Dec 2025
If you’re searching for how to sell an upside-down car, you’re probably feeling stuck. Owing more on a car loan than the vehicle is worth can make it feel like selling isn’t even an option.
Use 'git mv' to record filename case changes in Git
Ole Begemannby Ole Begemann16 Dec 2025
After my previous post Tracking renamed files in Git, here’s another entry in my ongoing series “I thought git mv was useless but I was wrong”.
JUnzip and JZipView Updated After Almost 10 Years
Code and Life16 Dec 2025
I released the JUnzip library back in 2014 as a minimalistic C library for reading ZIP files without heavy dependencies.
French Christmas Cookies (Sablés) Recipe | Chocolate & Zucchini
Chocolate & Zucchiniby clotilde16 Dec 2025
Biscuits de Noël Laurence is one of my best and oldest friends. I met her when I was fourteen, on our first day of high school, and soon we were inseparable, so alike in so many ways that people...
Tracking renamed files in Git
Ole Begemannby Ole Begemann15 Dec 2025
Git famously doesn’t track file renames. That is, Git doesn’t store the information “file A has been renamed to B in commit X”. Instead, Git stores snapshots of the repository at each commit.
Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut Squash and Chestnuts Recipe | Chocolate & Zucchini
Chocolate & Zucchiniby clotilde9 Dec 2025
I will own up to it right then and there: I am an inveterate collector of pasta. Guilty as charged.
Vegetarian Batch-Cooking for Winter: 1 1/2-Hour Prep, 6 Easy Meals ! | Chocolate & Zucchini
Chocolate & Zucchiniby clotilde5 Dec 2025
In addition to planning my menus, I have been doing more and more batch cooking these past few months.
Let's defuse the Compose BOM – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton3 Dec 2025
03 December 2025 Many people rely on the Compose bill of materials (BOM) artifact to provide the complete set of Compose dependency versions.
Lint Me: Test Sources 🖇️
Zarah Dominguezby Zarah Dominguez2 Dec 2025
It has been a year, which means it is once again time to re-examine our TODO Lint rule. TL;DR: The rule checks if a TODO includes mandatory information – an assignee and a date.
Going Back to Basics
ARKives1 Dec 2025
Going Back to Basics Table of contents: This article is intended to explain some basics of Geospatial, which many will get confused about and some smart ways to ensure you won’t get confused again.
Riddle: Korchnoi-Karpov 1978
Chess Newsby ChessBase27 Nov 2025
The annotations in Mark Dvoretsky's famous Analytical Manual were not convincing. And not just one or two variations seemed "off" – Fishbein had questions about everything.
Is it weird facelifts are becoming normalized, or am I being too judgmental?
Fashion | The Guardianby Jessica DeFino20 Nov 2025
Dear Ugly, I’m 36 and I don’t need or want a facelift – but lately I feel like I’m being made to want a facelift.
Android Quick Share Support for AirDrop: A Secure Approach to Cross-Platform File Sharing
Google Online Security Blogby Edward Fernandez (noreply@blogger.com)20 Nov 2025
Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls. Being able to communicate and connect with friends and family should be easy regardless of the phone they use.
Fix "This video format is not supported" on YouTube TV
David Walsh Blogby David Walsh17 Nov 2025
Setting up a new computer is bliss -- no old, unused apps and the machine performs much better than the previous. Unfortunately, you may encounter new problems based on the new hardware.
Fountain Pen Day, 5 Years Later
Olive Octopus14 Nov 2025
After becoming aware that "modern" fountain pens exist and weren't just for calligraphy (or Very Fancy Business People), then absorbing information about pens and inks like a sponge for several...
ArrayPool Benchmarks: We have a problem
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel3 Nov 2025
Many benchmarks that are using ArrayPool, or more specificly ArryPool<T>.Shared, are not actually measuring a "real" scenarion or the benchmark is flawed in some way.