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71% Publishing Is Weird: How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People Pizzamas rolls on: http://pizzamas.comIn which John explores how a tiny algorithmic quirk led to his book The Anthropocene Reviewed becoming a surprise hit a...
99% Announcing Entity Framework 7 Release Candidate 1 EF7 RC1 is released and includes top requested features from JSON column support to bulk updates and stored procedure mapping.
98% Microsoft Teams’ Infrastructure and Azure Communication Services’ Journey to .NET 6 Microsoft Teams’ infrastructure team, or Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3), aspires to be the industry leading platform with reliable and high-quality audio and video calling, meetings, and chat experiences that work any time, from a...
93% Paddling a kayak from Monterey, California to Kahului, Maui (1987) Here's an edited version of my Tonite Show interview with Johnny Carson, September 1987, after I had completed a 64-day, 2400 mile kayak voyage from Monterey...
98% Azure DevOps Podcast: Scott Hunter: Microsoft’s Azure & .NET Strategy- Episode 211 Topics of Discussion: [2:27] What are some things happening and that have happened at Microsoft that we may not be aware of? [7:25] Scott talks about some of the upcoming developments he is excited about that will make using the cloud in the future even b...
94% Why does COM express GUIDs in a mix of big-endian and little-endian? Why can't it just pick a side and stick with it? Oh, it does pick a side. It's just that some dashes are missing.
96% Published: Data Management in Complex Systems My article about Data Management in Complex Systems was published in DZone as part of the DZone's 2022 Database Systems Trend Report.I would love your feedba...
89% Atlassian’s Eye-Opening State of Teams Report w/ Mark Cruth Modern Work Evangelist When you get the chance to geek out over the metrics behind happy dev teams, you take it. As one of the companies shaping how the modern workforce, well… works, Atlassian is one of the foremost thought leaders in the space thanks to an amazing research an...
99% How to Read AppSettings Values From a JSON File in .NET Core Explains how to read AppSettings values from a JSON file in ASP.NET Core including rich examples and code samples
99% Getting started with OpenTelemetry Metrics in .NET. Part 2: Instrumenting the BookStore API In this 2 part series-post I’m going to show you how to use OpenTelemetry to generate custom metrics and how to visualize those metrics using Prometheus and Grafana. In part 2 I’ll be showing you how to add OpenTelemetry Metrics on a real life .NET app an...
99% Clarity vs. Style UI—short for user interface. In this category, I'll be talking about the on-screen elements of UI in games, such as menus and other display information.Clari...
98% Public preview of out-of-the-box trainable classifiers with auto-labeling support In order to protect sensitive data, it must first be discovered and labeled. However, traditional classification techniques such as regular expression, and manual or rule-based approaches can’t easily handle massive volumes of data. Leveraging machine lea...
99% SQL Transaction Examples when Modifying Data in SQL Server Tables This article looks at a simple example of using explicit transactions when modifying data in SQL Server tables.
99% React: storing state in URL with URLSearchParams | I CAN MAKE THIS WORK The React useState hook is a great way to persist state inside the context of a component in React. This post demonstrates a simple React hook that stores state in the URL querystring, building on top of React Routers useSearchParams hook.
99% Does "foreach" in C# call "Dispose" on an "IDisposable" object? "foreach" operator in C# calls "Dispose" on the collection/stream it iterates over
99% A Swiss Army Knife for Developers: DevToys Recently, I came across a wonderful tool called DevToys. It combines many common developer tasks like converting, encoding/decoding, formatting or escaping/unescaping text in one tool. DevToys can …
97% Introducing C#11: Auto Default structs Introduction C# 11 improves Structs compared to C# 10 (and earlier). Before C# 11, every...
99% Containers? So What? Docker 101 Explained - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #8 Containers are confusing. They are a buzzword that everyone is saying but no one understands. Why use them? Why are they better than virtual machines? How ar...
99% Git 101 Basics - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #4 This video talks about how to think about Git source control! Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #4 - Git 101 Basicshttp://computerstufftheydidntteachyou.c...
99% .NET GC Internals - 06. Compact phase The sixth episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. This episode is about the Compact phase, happening ...
99% .NET GC Internals - 07. Allocations The seventh episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. Let's switch the topic! This episode is not about...
93% Empowerment to the People! What You Need to Know About Black People, Disability, and Accessibility [w/ASL Interpreting]About one fifth (20%) of the global population lives with disabilities. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, 13.6 percent of...
99% .NET GC Internals - 08. Generations The eighth episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. In this episode I will cover the concept of genera...
98% Intro to Graphics 08 - WebGL Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...
96% Wakeup From Sleep With a Timer (ESP32 + Arduino series) You can't let the ESP32 be in deep sleep forever. At some point you need to wake it up and the easiest way is by using a timer.Learn how to configure your bo...
62% Git Pull Requests explained - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #5 Pull Requests are a lie! WHAT!? Scott talks about how Git Pull Requests work and merges one in live in this the second episode of our spontaneous training on...
78% A Simple Scam Trick (Don't get fooled!) How can a scammer convince people that he can predict the stock market or the price of cryptocurrencies? The trick is surprisingly simple. Learn how it works...
93% Using DHT22 Temperature Sensor (ESP32 + Arduino series) Measure temperature and humidity with the DHT22 (AM2302) sensor. This is a cheap & accurate sensor that integrates easily into many IoT projects.⚡️Other vide...
60% Brittney Braxton - Journaling as a Dev [w/ASL Interpreting] Note: There are initial captions directly in the video until the interpreter begins.Are you working with impact and purpose? Are you solidly attuned on what ...
94% Harold Jackson N / A - Black Queer Living: A History of DIY Culture in the Black LBGT+ Community [w/ ASL Interpreting]What is DIY culture? How does DIY culture intertwine with the Black LGBT+ culture? Get these questions answered, and learn a few easy be...
99% Blessing Krofegha - Is Headless CMS the Future of Development? [w/ASL Interpreting] Blessing Krofegha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Beveloper
96% SpaceX & Starlink: Is Satellite Internet a Good Idea? SpaceX plans to launch 12,000 satellites to provide world-wide internet coverage with Starlink. Is that a good idea? How fast can satellite be? Is it safe to...
51% Dawood Iddris - The Future of Tech and How to Keep in Touch While It Evolves [w/ASL Interpreting] Building and leading communities, one of the common pitfall many people fall in whiles trying to gain grounds in technology has to do with learning every new...
99% Why ESP32's Are The Best Microcontrollers (ESP32 + Arduino series) The ESP32 is a very powerful microcontroller with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, a dual-core CPU and a lot of memory. In this video I'll go over all of the fea...
99% What is the Cloud? Soft and Fluffy Edition - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #10 A gentle and clear explanation of cloud computing. This 20 min video talks about the components of a computer, starting with a Raspberry Pi, Laptops, Phones,...
97% Kubernetes and Container Orchestration 101 - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #11 We've learned about docker and containers, we've seen how they can do one thing well. What happens if they are connected and work together? How do we move fr...
99% Manage FreeRTOS tasks - Suspend, Delay, Resume, Delete (ESP32 + Arduino series) Once you have FreeRTOS tasks running, you might want to manage them. The scheduler can stop, suspend, and resume individual tasks. You can control tasks from...
79% What is FreeRTOS? (ESP32 + Arduino series) Want to multitask on your ESP32? By using FreeRTOS you won't have to worry about scheduling your tasks and making sure that all of them are given enough proc...
98% Someone is pretending to be me. One random day - someone spills the beans. They were picked to impersonate me and get a job using my information.
92% Ayodele Odubela - Combatting Bias in ML [w/ASL Interpreting] In this talk I cover how to see the bias in your data and machine learning models. By giving examples from recent research on biased facial recognition syste...
99% Connect to ThingSpeak (ESP32 + Arduino series) Use the built-in WiFi to send data to ThingSpeak. This could be temperature readings, water levels, lux levels, ...ThingSpeak is free if you send less than 3...
96% How To Install PlatformIO (ESP32 + Arduino series) Setting up PlatformIO inside Visual Studio Code for ESP32 development.PlatformIO is just an extension to Visual Studio Code and includes a library manager, a...
72% Deep sleep: Use RTC memory to store data (ESP32 + Arduino series) In deep sleep, the ESP32 powers down its main memory so all the contents is lost. You can, however, save some data in RTC memory. This is kept powered on dur...
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98% What's a Carriage and Who's Feeding it Lines? CRLF - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #1 Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #1 - What's a Carriage and Who's Feeding it Lines? CRLFhttp://computerstufftheydidntteachyou.com/https://www.youtube.com...
75% Valerie Phoenix - Empowered By Imposter Syndrome [w/ASL Interpreting] Imposter syndrome is something that the industry continues to represent as a negative. My take on this as a black woman in tech is we need to turn all of our...
86% What Does Culturally Responsive Teaching Mean in an Online Environment? [w/ASL Interpreting] Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is an instructional approach that seeks to ensure academic success while developing students' sense of culture and socia...
99% .NET GC Internals - 05. Sweep phase The fifth episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. This episode is about the Sweep phase, and its Conc...
99% Using Arduino's Serial Monitor & Plotter (ESP32 + Arduino series) Quickly debug your sketches with the Arduino Serial Monitor. See the value of variables and learn how to use the built-in plotter of the Arduino IDE.I've use...
99% Intro to Graphics 10 - Curves (Part 2) Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...
96% Git Push --Force will destroy the timeline and kill us all - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #7 Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #7 - Git Push --Force will destroy the timeline and kill us all! Ok, not really. But you really want to understand what'...
99% Brian Douglas - Your Next Open Source Contribution [w/ASL Interpreting] Note: The opening moments have closed captions until the interpreter begins. Today Open Source is ubiquitous and comprises nearly 80% – 90% of the code in a ...
78% Danny Thompson - Keynote: From Frying Chicken To Software Engineer [w/ASL Interpreting] "I spent 10 years working in gas stations, liquor stores and small retail. Never knew the path to tech was possible until a Rapper changed my life.In this ta...
98% Git Rebase vs Merge explained - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #6 How do you use Git Rebase vs Git Merge? Is this the hardest part of Git? Let's see if Evil Mr. Spock and Scott can explain Git Rebase without pain!http://com...
99% How to Multitask with FreeRTOS (ESP32 + Arduino series) Run multiple tasks on the ESP32 with FreeRTOS. For instance: blinking two LED's at different intervals or increment two counters at the same time.A FreeRTOS ...
87% Shukri Abdullahi - Through Programming I Became a Better Artist [w/ASL Interpreting] Code is my new favorite artistic medium. Creating art was once the only activity that put me in a flow state that was until I started coding. Programming lik...
94% Angie Jones - Keynote: The Reality of Developing an Artificial World [w/ASL Interpreting] Our world is changing. Artificial intelligence is being employed in just about all walks of life - from virtual assistants to self-driving cars. How does thi...
96% Lightning Interviews with Danny Thompson - Part 1 [w/ASL Interpreting] Danny Thompson will prerecord a series of interviews, which will stream consecutively during this time.Guests:- Christina Beckford https://twitter.com/DevDi...
99% Install Serial Drivers for ESP32 (macOS, Windows, Linux) Before you can program the ESP32, you need to install a driver for the USB-to-UART chip. Depending on your board that might be the CH340 or CP210x chip.🔗 Dr...
80% Aaron Saunders - Keynote - The Journey To Inclusive Innovation Incubator In3DC [w/ASL Interpreting] How we ended up building an innovation space for black and underrepresented communities. Our focus on tech enabled startups and small business is driven by o...
86% Nate Rose - Innovating on OUR STEM Education [w/ASL Interpreting] What is an IQ? Why do we take the SATs? How did it end up even being a metric of childhood success? Senior Software Engineer walks through 100 years of moder...
98% Basic Text Editing and Hotkeys in VS Code - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #3 Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #3 - Basic Text Editing and Hotkeys in VS Codehttp://computerstufftheydidntteachyou.com/https://www.youtube.com/playlist...
99% Keep WiFi Connection Alive with FreeRTOS Task (ESP32 + Arduino series) Does your ESP32 need a constant WiFi connection? Use a FreeRTOS task to constantly check your connection, and re-establish it when needed.This code has been ...
93% Azure Static Web Apps, Website, GitHub, SSL & hosting FREE! Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #20 Setting up a website, domain, SSL, hosting for FREE - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #20. Today we setup an Azure Static Web App, deploy, host, and set...
84% Blackfacts and the Wakanda Technology Platform - Technology By Us, for Us, About Us [w/ASL] The subject of 'Inclusion' in the Tech Industry is a hot topic today.In 1990, when my employer at the time declined to offer to reimburse me for programming ...
87% Lightning Interviews with Danny Thompson - Part 2 [w/ASL Interpreting] Danny Thompson precorded a series of interviews, which streamed consecutively during this time.Guests:- Marcelo Rocha DaSilva - https://github.com/bigdatakid...
99% Intro to Graphics 07 - GPU Pipeline Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...
91% Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #2 Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #2 - Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOMhttp://computerstufftheydidntteachyou.com/https://www.you...
98% WSL2, Visual Studio Code, Windows 10, Ubuntu/Linux + more - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #19 In this video we are blurring the lines between operating systems and showing you the future of software development using Visual Studio Code, WSL2, Ubuntu, ...
91% Ports and Processes! What Process has that Port open? - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #9 Port already in use? ERR! What app has that Port open? What's the relationship between ports and processes? What if I use Windows? What about Linux? Can I ma...
98% Banjo Obayomi - Grimoire, A Data-Centric Blogging Platform [w/ASL Interpreting] In this talk, I will describe how I built a new blogging platform focused on creating interactive data stories. By the end, you will understand the tools and...
99% Intro to Graphics 09 - Curves (Part 1) Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...
88% Why Use PlatformIO instead of Arduino? (ESP32 + Arduino series) The Arduino IDE is great, but also limited. Here I'll talk about using PlatformIO as a more powerful alternative.🔗Useful links:- PlatformIO homepage: https:...
84% Claudius Mbemba - What They Don't Teach You About Fundraising as a Black Founder [w/ASL] useneu.com has made 3 attempts at raising capital for our business. Each attempt brought with it some valuable, and often unintuitive, lessons about the fund...
96% 6 Months as a Full Time Pancreas Managing our Son’s Type 1 Diabetes with Multiple Daily Injections and Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitor
97% The rings of share - the unsolved problem of sharing Recently (last Saturday), I went to the Colombo Street Food Festival. It was a bit crowded for my liking but had awesome music and good beer. I snapped some photos of the event, recorded some clips of the music, and snapped some more photos with the other...
96% Real World Micro Services Over the years I’ve become pretty frustrated by the state of tech and engineering in general. One of the biggest issues we face in the industry is the lack of reusability in software. GitHub made a major revolutionary change for developers, enabling all o...
99% Upside Down Backups - IvyMike.dev An Upside-Down Backup Strategy I have a strange way of doing backups these days. When I save something, the master copy is in the cloud. If a file exists only on my local drive, it's not safe....
87% What Is a Circulant Matrix? An $latex n imes n$ circulant matrix is defined by $latex n$ parameters, the elements in the first row, and each subsequent row is a cyclic shift forward of the one above: $latex otag C = egin…
99% Evaluating New Tools I was reading about Phoenix today, looking at guides and documentation. It’s great to see in a guide when it’s easy to quickly set up a project, that makes it fun to get started and explore. The most exciting thing about Phoenix is that “reactivity”, or l...
98% How This Website Works This is a brief manual of how to write and publish pages on this website. It's mainly documentation for my future self, but may also be interesting to people who'd like to set up their own website without content management system (CMS), static site gener...