12 May 2020

42 links · Tuesday

Performance best practices in C#

Non-exhaustive list of code patterns to avoid in C#, either because they are risky or perform poorly.

Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online - Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum is today publishing the largest and most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch on its website, making it possible to zoom in on individual brushstrokes and even particles of pigment in the painting. Work on Operation Night Watch will resu…

Increase ASP.NET File Upload Limits

By default, ASP.NET and IIS protect us from large requests by putting hard limits on the transmitted size. IIS buffers files in our server’s memory before passing the byte array to ASP.NET. IIS’ default limit is 4MB and ASP.NET Core has a default of 30MB. To p…

Lockdown Course: Introduction to Cryptography - James Grime

Lockdown course: Introduction to Cryptography Hi all! Well, due to the lockdown, I can’t do any teaching for a few months. So, I thought I’d try to do some teaching online. My YouTube stuff will continue to exist, but right now I miss teaching in small groups.…

Dev Around The Sun 2020

Please donate! https://bit.ly/DATS2020 We are bringing together technologists, from all backgrounds and from around the globe, with two important goals in mind: to raise awareness and provide financial support for the many people fighting the current coronavi…

Creative Commons Licensing UI and Data Updates

When we last updated you to clarify concerns and answer questions about our transition to version 4.0 of the CC BY-SA license we committed to posting updates to the UI and addressing unanswered que...

A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra

These six brief videos, recorded in 2020, contain ideas and suggestions from Professor Strang about the recommended order of topics in teaching and learning linear algebra. The first topic is called A New Way to Start Linear Algebra. The key point is to start …

Pi-hole v5.0 is here!

After a successful beta testing and development period (many thanks to the beta testers!), we are pleased to announce the release of 5.0 for general availabilit

Apache NiFi

Apache NiFi supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic. Some of the high-level capabilities and objectives of Apache NiFi include:

Marten v4.0 Planning Document (Part 1)

As I wrote about a couple weeks ago in a post called Kicking off Marten V4 Development, the Marten team is actively working on the long delayed v4.0 release with planned improvements for performanc…

Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth - Internet Archive Blogs

Last week the Internet Archive upped our bandwidth capacity 30%, based on increased usage and increased financial support.  Thank you. This is our outbound bandwidth graph that has several stories to tell… A year ago, usage was 30Gbits/sec. At the beginning of…

Webrecorder

Create high-fidelity, interactive web archives of any web site you browse.

PJRC Store

Recommended Accessories: USB Cable, Pins 24x1 (2), 8MB PSRAM, USB Host Cable

Next.js 9.4

Next.js 9.4 introduces React Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration, New Environment Support, Built-in Fetch, and more!