7 August 2019

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Calling all .NET desktop and mobile developers! | .NET Blog

We would love to hear about your experience with building client applications in .NET. Your feedback will greatly help us to improve the .NET tooling and ensure our roadmap focuses on your needs. Participate in shaping the future of the .NET client development…

Update on .NET Standard adoption | .NET Blog

It’s about two years ago that I announced .NET Standard 2.0. Since then we’ve been working hard to increase the set of .NET Standard-based libraries for .NET. This includes many of the BCL components, such as the Windows Compatibility Pack, but also other popu…

The world's worst video card?

Let's build a circuit that displays an image on a VGA monitor! In this video, I talk about how VGA signals work and build a circuit that provides the correct timing of sync signals so that a monitor recognizes the signal. Support these videos on Patreon: http…

Frieze Patterns — Numberphile

Additional information A surprising link discussed by Professor Sergei Tabachnikov. Extra footage at: https://youtu.be/MJ1NAzpens4 Sergei Tabachnikov's homepage at Pennsylvania State University : http://www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/ David Eisenbud discuss…

Memory management in Python

To speed-up memory operations and reduce fragmentation Python uses a special manager on top of the general-purpose allocator, called PyMalloc.

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You Can't Trust Companies to Tell the Truth About Data Breaches

Last week, online sneaker-trading platform StockX asked its users to reset their passwords due to “recently completed system updates on the StockX platform.” In actuality, the company suffered a large data breach back in May, and only finally came clean about …

Frieze Patterns - Numberphile

A surprising link discussed by Professor Sergei Tabachnikov. Extra footage at: https://youtu.be/MJ1NAzpens4 More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Sergei Tabachnikov's homepage at Pennsylvania State University : http://www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/ Da…

Mission-driven careers with Amanda Silver

Join Amanda Silver, our first PM guest to learn more about how she accelerated her career with customer understanding and how she harnesses a sense of mission to stay motivated to achieve more. [1:08] - Amanda's roles through the years [3:45] - modern PM - dr…

egil/razor-components-testing-library

A unit testing library for Blazor Components. You can easily define components under test in C# or Razor syntax and verify outcome using semantic HTML diffing/comparison logic. You can easily inter...

Try out Nullable Reference Types | .NET Blog

Try out Nullable Reference Types With the release of .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7, C# 8.0 is considered "feature complete". That means that the biggest feature of them all, Nullable Reference Types, is also locked down behavior-wise for the .NET Core release.

ASP.NET Core Identity with FIDO2 WebAuthn MFA

This article shows how FIDO2 WebAuthn could be used as 2FA and integrated into an ASP.NET Core Identity application. The FIDO2 WebAuthn is implemented using the fido2-net-lib Nuget package, and dem…

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