28 May 2019

16 links · Tuesday

Fireside chat at Akamai Security Summit with Troy Hunt and Ari Weil

At the end of the Security Summit, Troy Hunt and Ari Weil have a retrospective chat on the event highlights, notable quotes, and surprises. Watch the summit's keynotes on demand at https://www.brighttalk.com/summit/4540-akamai-security-summit-virtual-edition.

Maintainer burnout and package security

At the end of the day, a determined attacker will get a malicious package in the package feed. Sometimes this is enabled by maintainer burnout. So what can we do? How do we mitigate this and provide security in depth?

Porting desktop apps to .NET Core | .NET Blog

Since I’ve been working with the community on porting desktop applications from .NET Framework to .NET Core, I’ve noticed that there are two camps of folks: some want a very simple and short list of instructions to get their apps ported to .NET Core while othe…

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High Performance (Potato) Chips

In this article, we focus on how Procter & Gamble is using high performance computing to create some common, everyday supermarket products. Tom Lange, a 27-year veteran of the company, tells us how P&G models products, processes and production systems for the …

Fixing Random, part 32

Last time on FAIC we reviewed the meaning of “expected value”: when you get a whole bunch of samples from a distribution, and a function on those samples, what is the average value of t…

Spaceketeer - BuiltWithDot.Net

Disk space usage analysis and cleanup app written in C#/WPF. Originally attempted to write it as a UWP app to learn the new framework, but the restrictions around accessing the file system sent me back to WPF.