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@nilsandrey.com

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🇨🇺 🇨🇦 Software developer. I like sports and movies. SaaS, web, Telecom. nilsandrey.com

Nils @nilsandrey.com · 12/07/2025

🤔 E-commerce visibility redefined? On May 15, @OpenAI quietly added @Shopify to ChatGPT’s search, no announcement, just a doc update. 🛍️ Now Shopify stores show up with rich results: images, prices, reviews. 💡Non-Shopify merchants can apply (just don’t block OAI-SearchBot).

Shopify and OpenAl logos whit a summary text of the same post.

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 04/02/2025

.Any() vs .Count() > 0? in C# by @groogs.bsky.social stackoverflow.com/a/63569609/2...

.NET Framework
With ICollection:

.Count > 0 is best
.Count() > 0 is fine, but ultimately just calls ICollection.Count
.Any() is going to be slower, as it enumerates a single item
With non-ICollection (no .Count property)

.Any() is best, as it only enumerates a single item
.Count() > 0 is bad as it causes complete enumeration
.NET Core
.Count > 0 is best, if available (ICollection)
.Any() is fine, and will either do ICollection.Count > 0 or enumerate a single item
.Count() > 0 is bad as it causes complete enumeration

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 26/11/2024

In the 20 years from 2000 to 2020, Amazon's Capex spending totalled $70B
In the last 4 years alone, Amazon has spent nearly 4x as much.

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 09/11/2024

TIL about DuckDuckGo "!bangs". I like it, very handy.

Poster of a DuckDuckGo bangs selection by techglimpse

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 08/11/2024

Enjoying the arc browser way. Productivity boost. It's a change with no bookmarks but replaced with auto-recycled tabs, pinned tabs, and favorites tabs. A nice mix of those with Profiles, Spaces, and Preview links are boosting my browsing experience.

Just a thing in Arc that generates a card by user.

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 23/10/2024

Hi there! Having fun in this place with @deck.blue

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 20/10/2024

Hosts at the office (co-working space) are in creative mode.

An ornament in a table, flowerpot holder in spider form with artificial web. cute.

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 28/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #162,378!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #162,378, Nils ‪@nilsandrey.bsky.social‬, joined on Jun 27, 2023"

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 28/05/2024

Inside Bluesky’s Engineering Culture newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky-en...

Unusual origins. It’s rare for publicly traded companies to fund startups which may become rivals – but it happened with Bluesky.

Team. A high ratio of former founders amongst the engineering team (70-80!%) , and the near-absence of Big Tech experience.

Tech stack. TypeScript, Go, ScyllaDB, SQLite, React+Expo.

Company culture. Full-remote with a time zone overlap, “extremely online.”

How the team operates. 2-3 person teams with a DRI, work buddies for everyone, and lots of longform writing.

Engineering culture. Integration tests over unit tests, roll-back / roll-forward, & the benefits of not having large-scale organizational expertise.

Open source and community. Treat contributors well, invest in developer platforms and documentation, and celebrate/promote third-party contributions.

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 04/07/2023

Threads, an Instagram app iOS: readhacker.news/s/5JiBJ HNComments: readhacker.news/c/5JiBJ (510+ in 7h) Android: Threads, an Instagram app - Apps on Google Play (retired early listing) Release: July 6? ActivityPub integration?

Preview at Google Play of "Threads, an Instagram app"

Preview at App Store of "Threads, an Instagram app"

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Nils @nilsandrey.com · 01/07/2023

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