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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 an emo…
This post describes a compile-time technique for getting the benefits of aggressive inlining in hot code while protecting cool code from its downsides.
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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, famously s…
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 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 to m…
Recently JetBrains announce that dotTrace and dotMemory supports profiling applications on Linux. We have been testing these out for production usage, analyz...
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 byte…
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. @jac…
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 Walkthrough
Ge…
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
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.