20 February 2020

49 links · Thursday

FEMMEBIT

FEMMEBIT is a biennial festival uniting an all-female roster of Los Angeles based artists working in video and new media. A 3-day celebration spanning a curated program of symposiums, screenings and exhibitions, FEMMEBIT examines today’s society at large as an…

Habitica - Gamify Your Life

Habitica is a free habit and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy and happy.

Paperwork

Paperwork is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to services like Evernote ®, Microsoft OneNote ® or Google Keep ®

BlurHash

Does your designer cry every time you load their beautifully designed screen, and it is full of empty boxes because all the images have not loaded yet? Does your database engineer cry when you want to solve this by trying to cram little thu…

Strings and Loops within Pi - Numberphile

Tom Crawford from Oxford University looks at self-locating strings and interesting loops. Get a Piece of Pi: https://www.patreon.com/posts/piece-of-pi-for-33529079 More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More of Tom on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/To…

MongoDB.local SF 2018

MongoDB is coming to SF! Join us for a full-day educational conference covering the fundamentals to advanced techniques of app design and performance management. You’ll hear from the team that builds the database and power users running MongoDB deployments. At…

Plain Text Offenders

Did you just email me back my own password?!

February 2020 SDK Release

Welcome to the February release of the Azure SDK. We have updated the following libraries: Cosmos (JavaScript only). Event Hubs (Java and JavaScript). Key Vault (Python only). Storage (Blobs, Files, and Queues across all languages). These are ready to use in …

Code review red flag: Where is the missing code?

I recently had what amounted to a drive by code review. I was looking into code that wasn’t committed or PR. Code that might not have been even saved to disk...

Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database – What and Why

Elastic Jobs are currently in public preview.  The feature is ready and we are preparing to make it officially generally available.  No whitelisting or extra steps are required to get started.   Elastic Jobs is a feature of Azure SQL Database that lets you run…

MSIX Packaging Tool Insider Program

Early access, preview, beta, whatever you want to call it, joining the MSIX Packaging Tool Insider Program allows you to have access to new features in development that aren’t available to anyone else.   Its incredibly easy to join, all you have to do is sign …

Builder as a monoid

Builder, particularly Fluent Builder, is one of the more useful design patterns. Here's why.

Is Blazor For Everyone? — App vNext

Someone recently asked me why I was so enthusiastic about Blazor. This person didn’t like the programming experience as much as their JavaScript framework. So, here’s the deal. If you are happy with your stack, your tribe, rock on. Blazor obviously isn’t for…

Xamarin Coding Standards | Jesse Liberty

There are many best practices in writing Xamarin. Here are some that we’ve canonized where I work…

Monsters Weekly 152 - GitHub Actions and .NET Core

GitHub Actions makes it really easy to setup a continuous integration build for your .NET Core projects. In this episode, Dave shows us how to configure a workflow to build and test your .NET Core pro

Rider 2020.1 Roadmap - .NET Tools Blog

We’d like to share our plans for Rider 2020.1 with you and find out what we can do next to improve your development experience. Your feedback is always welcome! For the 2020 release, we’ve been burning through the Great Ticket … Continue reading →

Azure This Week: Azure This Week - Ignite The Tour: Sydney

In this special episode of Azure This Week, Lars is in Sydney at Microsoft Ignite The Tour. He speaks to Azure experts including Troy Hunt, Christina Warren and Sonia Cuff. He also gives a flavour of what the conference is like for the 6,000 attendees over the…

OS hacking: Let's port git to SerenityOS!

SerenityOS is open source on GitHub: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awesomekling Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/serenityos Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/awesomekling Donate via P…

Google Fonts

Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

data stories

канал о том, как (цифровые) технологии и данные меняют общество / PM @Katerfas

BBC Micro bot

If you've never tried BASIC playing with the examples on the @bbcmicrobot Twitter account is a good place to start.

ralfholly/git-autocommit

Automatically commit Git working copy changes. Contribute to ralfholly/git-autocommit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Zaid-Ajaj/Npgsql.FSharp.Analyzer

Analyzer that provides embedded SQL syntax analysis when writing queries using Npgsql.FSharp. It verifies query syntax, checks the parameters in the query match with the provided parameters and per...

Marten

The Marten library provides .NET developers with the ability to easily use the proven PostgreSQL database engine and its fantastic JSON support as a fully fledged document database. The Marten team believes that a document database has far …