21 May 2020

50 links · Thursday

The Parker Quiz - Numberphile Podcast

Matt Parker takes a quiz prepared by Brady. If you like quizzes and puzzles and interactive courses, check out episode sponsor Brilliant and get 20% off a premium subscription - https://brilliant.org/numberphile Many of the links below will contain quiz spoil…

WinDbg — the Fun Way: Part 1

A while ago WinDbg added support for a new debugger data model, a change that completely changed the way we can use WinDbg. No more…

Life, part 11

Source code for this episode is here. I’ve added a panel to the UI that moves as the UI is resized; I’ll add some controls to it in future episodes. Back in 1994 I made a photocopy of a…

Windows Terminal Build Color Scheme

Windows Terminal Build Color Scheme. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

An introduction to RabbitMQ - What is RabbitMQ?

To help you understand if RabbitMQ is the right message broker for your needs, we provide a high-explanation of what makes it unique, including examples of use cases for microservices, using rabbitMQ as a message bus and integrating into legacy systems.

Send to Carbon with VS19

Example Carbon code image Have you ever wanted to share a code snippet on social media and while requiring the formatting to stay intact and for it to look beautiful? I know that I have, which is h…

Community

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The Death Of Corporate Research Labs

In American innovation through the ages , Jamie Powell wrote: who hasn’t finished a non-fiction book and thought “Gee, that could have bee...

Vertebrae by draxes

A simple 2D puzzle game inspired by your old-time favorites, Snake and Sokoban!

Microsoft Build 2020

Join us for the Microsoft Build 48-hour, digital event to expand your skillset, find technical solutions, and innovate for the challenges of tomorrow.

Building a physical <blink> tag!

This is the latest of my many terrible lockdown-induced ideas. I’m saving money on commuting. So I’m spending it on tech-crap I really don’t need. I bought a new laptop sticker. A…

ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition

Fully updated to ASP.NET 3.1, ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition</i> is a hands-on primer to building cross-platform web applications with your C# and .NET skills. Even if you’ve never worked with ASP.NET you’ll start creating productive cross-platform web…

Using WSL to Launch Several Bash Command from an Application

Struggled today with launching WSL from a Windows application to automate an external build process. Turns out this was a lot harder than it should have been due to some quirks on how the `wsl.exe` and `bash.exe` are registered by the Windows Sub System for Li…

Windows Terminal 1.0 | Windows Command Line

Last year at Build 2019, we first announced the Windows Terminal. Since then, we have been working with the community to create a wonderful terminal experience while still being a preview product. Here we are at Build 2020 and we are so excited to share with y…

Tackle Big-O Notation in .NET Core - Simple Talk

Every computer science student must learn about Big-O Notation, a way to conceptualize algorithm complexity that directly relates to performance of the algorithm. In this article, Camilo Reyes demonstrates how to apply Big-O algorithms to .NET Core application…

What Is Nix

Join us on May 25, 2020 at 1:00 pm EST for ShipIt! presents How Shopify Uses Nix, a discussion about how Shopify is using Nix to rebuild our developer tooling with Burke Libbey. Please register. Over the past year and a bit, Shopify has been progressively rebu…

Composing in the Caddyfile

Web server config files are mostly about expressing HTTP handling logic. Often, various handlers or middlewares need to be “composed” to form a cohesive HTTP handler that returns the desired responses. Structurally, config files are basically limited to two d…