6 September 2019

23 links · Friday

Navigating the .NET Ecosystem

In 2002, .NET was released. Over the next 12+ years, the .NET developer community patiently grew at a seemingly steady pace. Then, things started evolving rapidly. Microsoft anticipated the changing ecosystem and embraced the open-source development mindset, e…

unoplatformdev

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Blazor

Blazor is a single-page web application (SPA) framework built on .NET that runs in the browser with Mono's WebAssembly run-time, or server-side via SignalR. Bl…

The Mystery of 42 is Solved - Numberphile

42 was the last remaining number below 100 which could not be expressed as the sum of three cubes (*) - UNTIL NOW More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ (*) barring numbers for which this known to be IMPOSSIBLE - see previous videos. See our playli…

Painless Password Hash Upgrades

Background & Summary Existing websites and applications implementing an older password hashing algorithm like MD5 or SHA1 must be upgraded to a more secure algorithm. Both of these older algori…

CSRF is (really) dead

A little while back I wrote a blog post about how "CSRF is dead". It focused on SameSite cookies, a powerful yet simple feature to protect your website against CSRF attacks. As powerful as it was, and as much as it will kill CSRF, you had to enable it on

dotnet/coreclr

CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes. - dotnet/coreclr

42 is the new 33 - Numberphile

42 is the only remaining (eligible) number below 100 which has not been represented as the sum of three cubes... 33 was cracked by Andrew Booker from the University of Bristol. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ The original 33 video: https://yo…

[Updated: New Statement] Flight1 Security Breach | FSElite

Update Sep 7th 2019 @ 09:05z: Flight1 has issued an email to users responding to the security breach we previously reported on. Here's their statement in full. == Important Information: Yesterday,

Goodbye XSS Auditor

Chrome has retired the XSS Auditor because of problems with bypasses and security. This article describes how the Auditor worked, how it was bypassed and how it began. It examines the XSS Auditor’s weaknesses and the vulnerabilities it caused. Finally, it sugg…

False Knees

False Knees is a webcomic written by Joshua Barkman. All silly nonsense is my own.

Space Invaders | Design Icons

Design Icons is a new series from Game Maker's Toolkit, charting the history of game design through influential and important games. Starting with an invasion from space... Sources An Intro to Videogame Design History | The Game Design Forum http://thegamede…