.NeXt Generation (London, United Kingdom) .NeXT Gen is a group of open-minded technology professionals who are keen to discuss the latest innovations and developments in the community. We are planning workshops, talks, panels, and discussion
joshiemoore/snakeware A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace. Contribute to joshiemoore/snakeware development by creating an account on GitHub.
Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive Publishers call online library “willful digital piracy on an industrial scale.”
Wiki - PinebookProSixMonthsIn There’s been a lot of excited reviews among the more nerdly segments of society about the Pinebook Pro, a 14-inch, $200 Linux laptop using an ARM CPU and generally open-source hardware. Rumors are it’s extremely solid for a piece of hardware that’s far be...
Avalonia UI Framework Avalonia uses a XAML dialect that should feel immediately familiar to anyone coming from WPF, UWP and Xamarin Forms.
Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong - Oceans on Nautilus Jerry Mitrovica has been overturning accepted wisdom for decades. A solid Earth geophysicist at Harvard, he studies the internal structure and processes of the Earth, which has implications for fields...
Customising the ASP.NET Core default UI without editing the PageModels In this post I show how you can replace the Razor views for the ASP.NET Core Identity default UI, without having to replace the code-behind PageModels.
Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere! Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, ...
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers – ImageView Let us say you are an independent developer and it is time to publish your app to the world. To make it easier, you build an installer and start distributing it. A courageous early adopter downloads and runs it, only to be greeted by this strongly worded ...
How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/linkus7/ After Years of having to deal with Sploosh Kaboom, the Battleship Minigame in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, we have finally found a way to beat it consistently. This is the result of many people's efforts to ...
Simplifying Board Games A few years ago I wrote about how I'd been playing a simplified version of Carcassonne with Lily. We stopped for a while, but recently we've played simplified versions of Ticket to Ride, Race for the Galaxy, Guillotine, and Settlers of Catan. My general ...
Seven years later, I bought a new Macbook. For the first time, I don The 2013 Macbook Air is the best computer I have ever owned. My wish has always been that Apple did nothing more than update the CPU and the screen, touching nothing else. I was afraid the day of upgrading my laptop would come. But it came. My A
Getting Started With Cloudinary API (Live Stream) The Cloudinary API is an amazing tool for managing your media (images, video, etc.). In this stream, Tamas gives me an intro to uploading and displaying images to/from Cloudinary. With the Cloudinary API, you can upload, transform, and optimize images and...
Surprise Capital One court decision spells trouble for incident response Surprise Capital One court decision spells trouble for incident response
The danger of async/await and .Result in one picture – TooSlowException Sync over async in .NET is always bad and there is no better advice than just to avoid it. What does “Sync over async” mean exactly? It happens if you synchronously wait on an asynchronous operation result with the help of .Result, .Wait or similar. Why i...
Serializer recommendations for 5.0 by steveharter · Pull Request #113 · dotnet/designs Based on a prior internal review and feedback, putting various information together to discuss.
Martin Heinz - Personal Website & Blog Welcome to my personal website and blog, here you can find some information about me, contact, social media links as well as my blog posts
The Debian Administrator's Handbook A reference book presenting the Debian distribution, from initial installation to configuration of services.
electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection Contribute to electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection development by creating an account on GitHub.
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
Tip 256 - Work with your Azure apps in Visual Studio Codespaces You can now use Visual Studio Codespaces to develop your applications with. This means that you can open a browser and start coding. Or you can use VS Code or Visual Studio (available soon) on your local machine and connect that to Visual Studio Codespace...
Fiddler Everywhere v0.10 is Here! Fiddler Everywhere is more beautiful, more useful and more powerful than ever.
Using Microsoft.FeatureManagement.AspNetCore to filter actions and HTML In our previous post, we introduced Microsoft.FeatureManagement as a way to manage feature flag functionality in your .NET applications. As mentioned in the post, this library is compatible with any .NET Standard application.
winget install learning | Windows Command Line Last week we announced a package manager preview for Windows. Our goal is to provide a great product to our customers and community where everyone can contribute and receive recognition. The last thing that we want to do is alienate anyone in the process.
Introducing the Microsoft.FeatureManagement library A couple of weeks ago, I needed to find a way to better manage new functionality for a feature that was not ready yet (it broke stuff). We didn’t know exactly when the feature would be shipped, but we also didn’t want to deal with branch and merging heada...
Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and MongoDB - Code Maze In this article, we’re going to cover how to set up an ASP.NET Core Web API with MongoDB as our database. To help us build a web API with a schema-less database, we’ll look at how to set up an ASP.NET Core application with MongoDB.
Absentee and Early Voting | USAGov Learn about absentee and early voting as alternatives to voting on Election Day. Find out the rules for your state.
Visual Studio Subscriptions administrator feature updates | Visual Studio Blog We’ve heard your feedback about wanting an improved Visual Studio subscriptions administration experience and are sharing details about a few big changes we hope you’ll like!
Monsters Weekly 167 - Generating an Absolute URL in Razor Pages When sharing a URL to a specific page in your Razor Page application via email, you need the ability to generate an absolute URL. In this week’s episode, Monster Dave shows us the easy way to do that.
Police brutality in Seattle First off, a brief programming note: now is not the right time to continue with the usual topic of this blog: a lighthearted exploration of algorithmic complexity and optimization. We’ll get …
Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing by Dean Knox, Will Lowe, Jonathan Mummolo :: SSRN Researchers often lack the necessary data to credibly estimate racial discrimination in policing. In particular, police administrative records lack information
Balance fallacy - RationalWiki “”There's a kind of notion that everyone's opinion is equally valid. My arse! A bloke who's been a professor of dentistry for 40 years doesn't have a debate with some eejit who removes his teeth with string and a door!