31 March 2020

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rethinking openbsd security

OpenBSD aims to be a secure operating system. In the past few months there were quite a few security errata, however. That’s not too unusual, but some of the recent ones were a bit special. One might even say bad. The OpenBSD approach to security has a few asp…

James Newton-King - Introducing gRPC HTTP API

gRPC is a modern way to communicate between apps. gRPC uses HTTP/2, streaming, Protobuf and message contracts to create high-performance, realtime services. Support for gRPC on ASP.NET Core was added in .NET Core 3.0.

Dark Sky Has a New Home

Today we have some important and exciting news to share: Dark Sky has joined Apple.

Raycast

Move using the w, s, a, d, ←, and → keys

Financial Times

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication

Blog | ecsazza

SaaS, Workflow, Startup, Blog

Convert CSS in React To Styled Components

Styled Components is one of those interesting topics that developers love to argue about. It's a brand new way of doing things that many people just aren't ready to acknowledge. In this article, we are going to convert a React site using regular CSS to one th…

Gondor Calls For Aid (with Kit Yates) - Numberphile Podcast

Mathematical biologist Kit Yates discussing the coronavirus pandemic. Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile More podcasts: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Pod_Playlist Kit Yates website - https://kityates.com Kit on Twitter - https://twitter.…

Dolt Use Cases

Dolt is Git for data. Instead of versioning files, Dolt versions tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories. As…

ValueTask Restrictions

How to use ValueTask, specifically restrictions for consuming code.

US Government Wages War on Encryption

As the world finds itself preoccupied with COVID-19, the United States government is trying to pass a law to ban encryption. It's called the EARN IT act, and it has potentially devastating repercussions for encryption and companies that use it.

Fast Build, Slow Build, and the Testing Pyramid

At Calavista we’ve been helping a couple of our clients use Selenium for automated testing of web applications. For one client we’re slowly introducing a slightly different, but still .…

Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library

Last Tuesday we launched a National Emergency Library—1.4M digitized books available to users without a waitlist—in response to the rolling wave of school and library closures that remain in place to date. We’ve received dozens of messages of thanks from teach…

Using Visual Studio Code from a docker image locally or remotely via VS Online

    Utilising Custom Container builds to spin up a custom Visual Studio Code Environment for use on premise with Visual Studio Code or Online with Visual Studio Online Using Visual Studio Code Please see the following  repository contains a Visual Studio Code …