21 April 2020

72 links · Tuesday

Intention

Build the habit of focus.

Phishing: how to report to the NCSC

Discover how to report a potential phishing message to the NCSC using the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS)

Transparent Textures

Standing on the shoulders of Subtle Patterns. Built and maintained by @mikehearn.

BlazorPro.BlazorSize 2.0.2

A JavaScript interop for Blazor used to detect the browser's screen size and perform Media Query tests. BlazorSize uses the DOM API `matchMedia` to test screen size. BlazorSize was created to allow Blazor components to render adaptively.

A Possible New Backend for Rust – Jason Williams

Is that a compiler backend or frontend? Cranelift Bringing this together Benchmarks Footnotes LLVM originally stood for Low Level Virtual Machine but this was dropped as LLVM is no longer a virtual machine and more of a library of utilities. https://github.com…

Special Delivery

Brad’s phone rang with the telltale tone of an inner-office call. “Yeah,” he briskly blurted out as he picked up the phone, “what’cha ya need?” That was actually his nice way of answering the phone. As the senior trader at Æxecor, one of the world’s largest en…

Why is this Puzzle Impossible? - Numberphile

Don't try this at home - it's impossible... Professor Steven Bradlow explains. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Steven Bradlow: https://math.illinois.edu/directory/profile/bradlow Buy the puzzle on Amazon (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/2yt…

Getting Started with Sanity.io

Sanity.io is an amazing Headless CMS with lots of room for customization. With Sanity.io, you can create custom React components for the dashboard to add whatever functionality you want. I have already moved my site over to Sanity.io and am really enjoying it!…

Matheminecraft: Where math and Minecraft meet

Mathematician David Strütt, a scientific collaborator at EPFL, worked for four months to develop Matheminecraft, a math video game in Minecraft, where the gamer has to find a Eulerian cycle in a graph. Minecraft is a sandbox video game released in 2011, where …

C# 9 – Positional or Nominal Creation

C# allows writing code with positional or nominal code style. Using positional code style, constructors can be used. Object initializer belong to the nominal category. So far the nominal category w…

AUTOMATIC LIP-SYNCING

Check out Brilliant.org for fun STEMmy courses online! https://brilliant.org/CaryKH/ Lazykh: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCobNHsxWdWDFCuPqHoBmyUw Part 1 of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9sptoLvJU

Ars Technica

Serving the Technologist for more than a decade. IT news, reviews, and analysis.

CINEMATIC LIGHTING Techniques Tips and Tricks

In this video I want to give you a lighting breakdown on how to get Cinematic Lighting for your videos. Hopefully these lighting tips and tricks will help your videos look more filmic. If you want to see a budget version of this check out Mac Olink video: ht…

Julie Lerman on about.me

I am a software coach, Microsoft Regional Director, and Conference Keynote & Tech Speaker in Burlington, Vermont. Read my blog.

Home Page - Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Independent BusinessLooking for Our Work on Amazon?Susan HolmbergApril 17, 2020EnergyWhy 30 Million Solar Rooftops Should Be In the Next Relief BillJohn FarrellApril 10, 2020Independent BusinessStacy Mitchell is Profiled in the New York TimesJess Del FiaccoApr…

AutSoft - Ideas meet technology

Célunk egy fenntartható digitális jövő építése, alkalmazva kiemelkedő szaktudású kollégáink által fejlesztett innovatív technológiai megoldásainkat

Scene & Graphic Setup for Developer Streamers

I recently got a lot of questions around my OBS setup for my Twitch development streams. What type of graphics are required, what equipment, and how do you lay down your scenes and sources. Today, I will take you through my setup and hopefully it will spark so…

Kim Maida 🥑 — DEV Profile

Head of Developer Relations & Community at Gatsby. Previously Head of DevRel at Auth0. International speaker. Google Developer Expert. Microsoft MVP. Auth0 Ambassador. Former behavioral biologist.

Welcome to Webkinz World!

Sign up for a free account to play games, care for your pets, make friends and decorate your rooms!

Shane Lawrence

UI Developer in Kelowna, BC. Bit of a nerd.

Foone Wiki

This is Foone Turing's personal wiki

Fifth Dream Today

Fifth Dream Today features Switchblade Symphony, the Cure, Nine Inch Nails, the Sifl & Olly Show, original artwork and writing, and more.

My Writings

Throughout everything I do I also do a lot of professional technical writing, not just blogging (Which I do get paid to do as well) but actual technical writing, from private documentation for clie…

Our Products | Fresh Greens from West Village Greens

West Village Greens produces a variety of flavorful salad mixes from sweet and spicy to peppery and smooth. Cosmic Arugula, Mighty Micros, Sweet Shoots, Everyday Wellness and Culinary Delight feature greens like amara kale, astro arugula and tokyo bekana. Our …

Playing Audio Files in a Blazor Application — App vNext

With a little JavaScript Interop you can play mp3 files in your Blazor application. The first step is to gather a few mp3 files you can play in your app. Remember, these will be playing in the browser, so keep the size of the file in mind. You can download m…

Azure Service Fabric 7.1 Release

Azure Service Fabric 7.1 is now available! Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, and taking into consideration the challenges faced by our customers, we are making 7.1 available through the manual upgrade path, but clusters set to automatic upgrade will not auto…

Building End-to-End Diagnostics and Tracing: Diagnostic Events

Posts in this series: An IntroTrace ContextDiagnostic EventsIn the last post, we looked at the W3C Trace Context standard, and how we can extend NServiceBus to propagate these new headers using middleware. With many monitoring and observability tools, this can…

Fixing Random, bonus episode 1

I just thought of a really cute application of the stochastic workflow technology we’ve been working on; most of the series has already been written but it fits in here, so I’m going to…

Fixing Random, part 15

[Code is here.] Last time on FAIC we made a correct, efficient implementation of SelectMany to bind a likelihood function and projection onto a prior, and gave a simple example. I deliberately chos…

Fixing Random, part 16

[Code is here.] This series is getting quite long and we’re not done yet! This would be a good time to quickly review where we’re at: We’re representing a particular discrete prob…

Fixing Random, part 17

Before we get going on today’s episode of FAIC, you might want to refresh your memory of what an additive monad is; I wrote an episode of my monad series on this subject. Briefly, an additive…

“Stubs” in the .NET Runtime

As the saying goes: “All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection”- David Wheeler