Selling People What They Want, Not What They Need
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Oodle Texture Compression
RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Miles Sound System, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, Oodle Data Compression, and Granny 3D (a 3D toolkit with exporters for 3D Studio Max, Maya and XSI), all popular video game middleware.
TIL#2: How to add a transparent video to a web page
Today, I released the PRAUXY GO launch page. For history's sake, here is a screenshot: PRAUXY GO Launch PageThis time, I decided to try something new. While making the launch video, I was creating a word cloud and thought: how could I put this word cloud in t…
How I Growth Hacked Instagram to Drive $13,000 of Card Game Sales - David Kemmerer
In 2017 I launched a College and University themed version of the game Cards Against Humanity. College Cards, as I dubbed it, was my first ever ‘official business’, and as a 22 year old recent college grad, I was pretty excited when I sold $13,000 of the game …
Zoom in China
Software Companies and Ethical Responsibility
DEVS(show) : The Universe is (not) deterministic. Is it a bootstrapping compiler?
The universe is not deterministic and bootstrapping compilers can teach us why.
The Next Step for Generics
Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
News by the ton: 75 years of US advertising — Benedict Evans
There are two ways you can talk about newspapers. You can talk about the ‘fourth estate’, and newspapers’ role in culture, politics, governance, the exchange of ideas and civil society. But you can also talk about newspapers as a specialised light manufacturin…
What does the product design team do here? — Tanner Christensen
When I joined Gem there was no design team . Many of the engineers, product managers, and customer success team members I would be working with had some experience with product designers, but nearly just as many had little-to-no exposure to product design!…
Variadic tuple types by ahejlsberg · Pull Request #39094 · microsoft/TypeScript
This PR implements variadic tuple types, i.e. the ability for tuple types to have spreads of generic types that can be replaced with actual elements through type instantiation. The PR effectively i...
You won't kill racism by replacing words - Coding Nagger
Just a rant about that replacing words nonsense that appears when something happens. Last time the vegans did it but won't take it for racism
Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% — 2020 — Blog — GNU Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust | tonari blog
How we chose the Rust programming language to advance the state-of-the-art in real-time communication
Download FFmpeg
FFmpeg only provides source code. Below are some links that provide it already compiled and ready to go.
2020 Chrome Extension Performance Report | DebugBear
A look at how Chrome extensions affect CPU usage, page rendering, and browser memory consumption.
gRPC-Web for .NET now available | ASP.NET Blog
gRPC-Web for .NET is now officially released. Use gRPC in the browser with gRPC-Web and .NET today.
Why Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces
We asked four physicists why gravity stands out among the forces of nature. We got four different answers.
Entity Framework: .NET Community Standup - June 10th 2020 - EF Core Power Tools
Join members from the .NET teams for our community standup covering great community contributions for Framework, .NET Core, Languages, CLI, MSBuild, and more. Community Links: https://www.theurlist.com/efcore-standup-2020-06-03
2020 Chrome Extension Performance Report | DebugBear
A look at how Chrome extensions affect CPU usage, page rendering, and browser memory consumption.
Goodbye NancyFX, Hello F#!
As some of you may already know, NancyFX has been archived 11 years after its first commit. You can read the announcement here for further information but I will never forget what I learnt from this codebase, the community around it and most especially the pe…
XAML code editor - Visual Studio
The XAML code editor in the Visual Studio IDE includes all the tools you need to create WPF and UWP apps for the Windows platform, and for Xamarin.Forms. This article outlines both the role the code editor plays when you develop XAML-based apps and the feature…
High Performance Browser Networking (O'Reilly)
What every web developer must know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browser to deliver the best user experience.
Generics and Compile-Time in Rust | TiDB
This is the second episode of the Rust Compile Time series. Brian Anderson, one of Rust's original authors, talks about monomorphization, using the TiKV project as a case study.
Black Google manager: “My education and elocution cannot save me from these situations”
In response to recent incidents of racial violence in the US, a manager at Google wrote a letter to his colleagues about his personal experience with the systemic injustice and how now more than ever, it compounds with the extraordinary stress.
Apple, ARM, and Intel
ARM Macs are imminent; why they make sense, and why the implications could be far-reaching, for not just Apple but also Intel.
Cloudinary Image Upload with Nodejs and React
Learn how to upload images to Cloudinary using React and Nodejs. Cloudinary is an amazing product for storing, transforming, and optimizing your media. In this video, we will create an image upload interface in React that will post images to a Node server. Thi…
r/programming - GitHub will no longer use the term 'master' as default branch because of negative association
3,300 votes and 2,622 comments so far on Reddit
Reasoning by Lego: The wrong way to think about cryptography.
Scott Arciszewski from Paragon Initiative pointed me to this example of PHP cryptography. The code is bad and the crypto design is flawed, but as usual for this blog, we can learn something from it....
How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses
Note: this is a republish of the article I originally wrote on Medium for Hackernoon
corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation
Project overview, general documentation, and white papers. - corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation
Blazor WebAssembly : MVVM Architecture - EP07
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Adding host filtering to Kestrel in ASP.NET Core
In this post I describe how to add host filtering to an ASP.NET Core application, and show why not filtering could allow attackers to exploit your app
Beautiful Trigonometry - Numberphile
Featuring Ben Sparks. Check out Brilliant (get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Ben's website: https://www.bensparks.co.uk More Numberphile videos with Ben Sparks: htt…
Model S Long Range Plus: Building the First 400-Mile Electric Vehicle
The freedom to travel anywhere is critical to Tesla’s mission. Since the introduction of our 265-mile Model S in 2012, we’ve
New Statue Appears By The Colston Plinth | Best of Bristol
The battle over the Colston statue has continued today as a new statue has appeared beside the empty Colston plinth.
New LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Robot Inventor lets creators build and bring to life anything they can imagine
Builders can create and code one of five personality-packed robots or dream-up and build their own creations
Looking Back at Postgres
This is a recollection of the UC Berkeley Postgres project, which was led by Mike Stonebraker from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990's. The article was solicited for Stonebraker's Turing Award book, as one of many personal/historical recollections. As a result it…
Tip 267 - Using the Bot Framework Composer tool
The Microsoft Bot Framework is an open-source framework that enables you to create intelligent, conversational bots that can use Azure Cognitive Services and can run on the Azure Bot Service. You can create bots with the Bot Framework SDK which is available fo…
Marten Quickstart with .Net Core HostBuilder
The Marten Community just released Marten 3.12 with a mix of new functionality and plenty of bug fixes this past week. In particular, we added some new extension methods directly into Marten for in…
C# semantic classification with Roslyn
A while ago, I blogged about using Roslyn's completion service. In today's post, I wanted to continue looking at some of the excellent compiler features that can be utilized to build IDE-like features in your projects. This time, we will look at how to do sema…
Computing with types in TypeScript
In this blog post, we explore how we can compute with types at compile time in TypeScript.
Announcing .NET Foundation Election 2020
This is your .NET Foundation!
Validation in ASP .NET Core 3.1
This is the twenty-second 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, ti
Remembering Windows 2000, Microsoft’s Forgotten Masterpiece
Twenty years ago, Microsoft released Windows 2000. A rock-solid, 32-bit business-oriented alternative to Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition, it paved the way for future consumer versions, including Windows 10. Here’s why we remember it so fondly.
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Delivery Hero Confirms Foodora Data Breach
Delivery Hero, the online food delivery service, has confirmed a data breach of its Foodora brand. Breached information includes personal details for 727,000
Viewing async code with Visual Studio
The debugger team have been working really hard on the improving the ways in ...
The Flat Earth Society
Welcome to The Flat Earth Society, home of the flat earth forums and the largest library of Flat Earth Society journals, newsletters, interviews, and books.
Recent database technology that should be on your radar (part 1)
I’m a huge fan of databases, so much so that I’ve written a book on so-called “NoSQL” databases, I spent some of my most fruitful years in tech working on the highly influential distributed database Riak, and I even built a database called Purple last year jus…
Nine ways 5G and the Internet of Things will harm humans, wildlife & Earth
Although government and industry promote the Internet of Things as the panacea for all ills, the IoT itself, creates a plethora of problems.This website delineates nine ways that 5G and the IoT will cause serious harms to humans, wildlife, and our Earth.
Introducing Windows Insider Channels | Windows Experience Blog
Hey Folks! Today, we’re excited to announce some changes to the way we release new builds to all Windows Insiders. We are transitioning and converting our current ring model, based on the frequency of builds, to a new channel model that pivots on the quality o…