Tips for remembering names

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The Tips Tip #1 📝 When being introduced to everyone in an office, take the time to make a quick note in a notepad. Name + role. 👹Fear: not making eye contact, being rude. 😇 Reality: people really appreciate that you care enough about them to make the extra effort....

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Thanks to luxagen for getting me to actually set something up for this. Turned out to be mighty useful when I accidentally trashed half my home folder and wanted to know if syncthing had propagated any of the damage. The use case is slightly different to mine, but RotKraken is...

Upgrading indirect NuGet dependencies

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The state of the art for dependency management in dotnet land. Having used ruby bundler and npm this makes me cry. I really hope I’m massively wrong about the following information. Please do tell me if I’m wrong and NuGet dependency management is not actually as bad as this! Paket,...

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