13 April 2020

36 links · Monday

File transfer app with Blazor: Introduction - Mircea Oprea

This series will show you how to build a file sharing web application with ASP.NET Core 3.1 (using Blazor) and hosting it on AWS. The application will allow users to upload a file, their email address and a friend’s or colleague’s email address, and deliver th…

Gatsby and Sanity.io - Part 2 Live Stream

Gatsby and Sanity.io are a great pair for creating JAMstack projects like blogs. In these videos, I am working to migrate my Gatsby blog from using markdown files to using the Headless CMS called Sanity.io. After starting this migration, I am loving Gatsby and…

Gatsby and Sanity.io - Part 1 (Live Stream)

Gatsby and Sanity.io are a great pair for creating JAMstack projects like blogs. In these videos, I am working to migrate my Gatsby blog from using markdown files to using the Headless CMS called Sanity.io. After starting this migration, I am loving Gatsby and…

A Personal History of Compilation Speed, Part 1

The first compiled language I used was the Assembler Editor cartridge for the Atari 8-bit computers. Really, it had the awful name "Assembler Editor." I expect some pedantic folks want to interject that an assembler is not a compiler. At one time I would hav…

Life, part 1

The mathematician John Horton Conway has died, apparently due to the covid-19 epidemic, at the age of 82. I never met him but by all accounts, he was a delightful person and brilliant mathematician…

The Legendary John Conway (1937-2020) - Numberphile Podcast

We pay tribute to John Horton Conway - with clips from the man himself, plus contributions from Siobhan Roberts, David Eisenbud, Colm Mulcahy and Tony Padilla. Genius at Play by Siobhan Roberts - https://amzn.to/34ExQ4I John Conway Numberphile Playlist - htt…

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Saving Money on Internation Payments as a Remote Freelancer

As a remote freelancer you likely receive payments from other countries and convert these different currencies into your own currency. These international payments and currency conversions often have hidden fees and unfavorable exchange rates which can cost yo…

Tales from the Loop (TV Series 2020– ) - IMDb

Created by Nathaniel Halpern. With Daniel Zolghadri, Rebecca Hall, Paul Schneider, Duncan Joiner. The townspeople who live above "The Loop," a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe, experience things previously consigned to the rea…

Next-Gen Nuclear Power

Bold new reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity.

A very short introduction to COBOL

COBOL is one of those languages you keep hearing about, one of the remains of the past. Turns out it’s the language that makes the world go around, in particular in banks and financial institutions. I read somewhere that over 70% of business transactions are m…

UniFi - Advanced Adoption of a "Managed By Other" Device

Overview In this article, readers will learn how to perform advanced adoption of an existing, "Managed by Other" device. Please note that to adopt a device with the "Managed by Othe...

Stop Making Students Use Eclipse

Computer science education doesn't adequately educate in some key areas. These are my personal thoughts on that issue and how it might be corrected - by not relying on IDEs!