26 February 2020

25 links · Wednesday

Hard Startups

The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or...

automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester…

Your Man in the Public Gallery - Assange Hearing Day 2 - Craig Murray

This afternoon Julian’s Spanish lawyer, Baltasar Garzon, left court to return to Madrid. On the way out he naturally stopped to shake hands with his client, proffering his fingers through the narrow slit in the bulletproof glass cage. Assange half stood to tak…

Tailwind UI

Beautiful UI components by the creators of Tailwind CSS.

Grid Garden

A game for learning CSS grid layout

Authentication and the Azure SDK

How do your apps identify themselves to the cloud resources you are using?   This is one of the most important considerations when building a cloud-native app. Ideally, your app should run in all phases of development (dev, test, and prod, for example). When y…

Marvin.Cache.Headers 5.0.0 Released

A new version of Marvin.Cache.Headers has been released.  This is a major version – next to the usual bug fixes,…

Power Down: Low power mode for Azure Sphere

Many of the IoT devices that Azure Sphere can securely connect need to operate in power-constrained environments. We have heard from many customers who want to integrate Azure Sphere into devices powered by batteries, solar panels, and even supercapacitors. Po…

What is this 48-pin laptop hard drive connector?

I'm trying to get data off a 2.5 inch hard drive from an old laptop (a Macintosh PowerBook Duo 230), the drive is model: WDS-2120 It looks like a standard mini-IDE hard drive, except it only has 4...