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SafeStay AP App launched to make accommodation safer, strengthen emergency response

Guests can search verified accommodation and book it; property owners register rooms and guest details; the police get real-time occupancy data across the State

SafeStay AP App launched to make accommodation safer, strengthen emergency response

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We Chose the Actions by What Was Easy to Build

A manager came back from three weeks' leave in February and found that a colleague had been reading her mailbox. Nobody had told her before, during or after.

  • A colleague accessed a manager's mailbox in four minutes via a self-service tool.
  • The tool, built in 2022, logged 1,900 actions, 310 of which were mailbox delegations.
  • Of the 310 mailbox delegation actions, three were moved behind an approval process.

From Zero to 3 Merged PRs: Contributing Python CLI Recipes to BasedHardware/omi

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contributing to BasedHardware/omi , the open-source AI wearable project. As of this week, all three of my pull requests have been officially approved and merged into…

  • Three Python CLI Recipe pull requests merged into main branch
  • Recipes converted data to Markdown, memory stream, and task lists
  • Author learned to rely on Python's standard library and welcome feedback

LINQ GroupBy: The Operator Everyone Uses Wrong

LINQ GroupBy: The Operator Everyone Uses Wrong GroupBy in LINQ looks like SQL GROUP BY . It isn't. At least, not in the way you'd expect.

  • LINQ GroupBy differs from SQL GROUP BY, returning IGrouping objects instead of aggregated rows.
  • Combine GroupBy with Select for SQL-like results, enabling aggregation and computed values.
  • Use composite keys with anonymous types and element selectors to refine grouping behavior in LINQ.

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