Visual Studio Code Browser Preview Extension Did you know you can view a live-reloading browser preview right inside of Visual Studio Code? Well, with the Browser Preview extension, you can do just that. Setting up your Visual Studio Code browser preview is just a few clicks away. Go to https://www...
UTS #51: Unicode Emoji This document defines the structure of Unicode emoji characters and sequences, and provides data to support that structure, such as which characters are considered to be emoji, which emoji should be displayed by default with a text style versus a...
Smarter C/C++ inlining with __attribute__((flatten)) This post describes a compile-time technique for getting the benefits of aggressive inlining in hot code while protecting cool code from its downsides.
Lewis Carroll's Pillow Problem - Numberphile Featuring Alex Bellos. Check out Brilliant (get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More videos with Alex Bellos: http://bit.ly/Bellos_Playlist Alex's website: htt...
Tmux for mere mortals Tmux is great. Tmux defaults are not. How to make use of a brilliant tool without breaking your fingers?
Pluralization with EF Core and EF Core Power Tools EF Core 3 supports pluralization by convention, and allows you to enable and customize it. This blog post will show you how!
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Paxos vs Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus? Distributed consensus is a fundamental primitive for constructing fault-tolerant, strongly-consistent distributed systems. Though many distributed consensus algorithms have been proposed, just two dominate production systems: Paxos, the traditional, famou...
Monsters Weekly 162 - Replacing Let's Encrypt with Managed Certificates in App Services I’ve been using Let’s Encrypt for ages to get SSL on my website but the poor Azure integration is getting me down. In this episode we go into using an Azure managed certificate instead.
Feature Flags - Asp.Net Core - The Long Walk Feature flags enable you to create a new piece of functionality in the main code branch, but behind a mask – so the end user doesn’t see the change. This means that you can decide at a later date to turn the feature on, or off. For example, say you wanted...
Using dotTrace and dotMemory for production analysis on Linux Recently JetBrains announce that dotTrace and dotMemory supports profiling applications on Linux. We have been testing these out for production usage, analyz...
Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches Mainline, Feature Branching, Continuous Integration, Release Branch and a clutch of other handy patterns.
CoreBoy is a cross platform GameBoy Emulator written in C# that even does ASCII .NET and C# are great languages for programming emulators. Specifically retrogaming and retroarcade emulators. In fact, ...
Memories - SizeCoding Hello! My name is "HellMood" and this is not a usual wiki style article. It will be written from my point of view, in first person. This article is all about a tiny MS DOS program called "Memories". This program has a size of 256 bytes and won the "PC 256...
Confirmed: Twitter Kills Off SMS Notifications & Posting In Most Countries And Deletes SMS Followers Without Providing Any Warning - DansDeals.com Update, 4/27: Twitter has now officially announced that they are killing off SMS in most countries. The Verge covers the story as well. View alternate options for receiving DansDeals alerts here. We are currently looking into other options for SMS alerts....
COVIDSafe App Teardown & Panel Discussion Join us for a detailed look at the Australian COVIDSafe app with some industry experts. Agenda: Troy Hunt : Discusison of privacy & identity - Considerations for people on the fence about using COVIDSafe Matthew Robbins: Initial App Teardown and Walkthrou...
Query Tags in EF Core for ASP .NET Core 3.1 Web Apps This is the seventeenth of a new series of posts on ASP .NET Core 3.1 for 2020. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2020, titl
This Goes to Eleven (Pt. 4/∞) Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2. I ended up going down the rabbit hole re-implementing array sorting with AVX2 intrinsics. There’s no reason I should go down alone.