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thoughts and experiences on engineering management, recruiting, managing performance and accelerating software development process.
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I recently talked with a cofounder CTO I have not spoken to in about two years. “What have you been up to?” I asked. Turns out—not much. Same team size, similar challenges, no advancement in the bi…
MSI Opitx MAG272CQR gaming monitor. Equipped with 27 inch,2560p, 165Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time panel, the Optix MAG272CQR gaming monitor will redefine the rules of eSports tournament and build the the winner formula.
I made a tweet claiming that Linux is behind on security mitigations. This post is to outline mitigations added to platforms such as Windows, MacOS, and even ChromeOS that have yet to see the light of day on the linux desktop.
Statistics blind us to the importance of individuals.
26 CLI tools that I love. And one that is OK.
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Technology is coming for your job. Here is how to prepare.
Last week I wrote a brief post about the process of having insights: How we don't control what insights we get, or when--we can only do the preparatory work, and then sit back and wait. The insight I was writing about was really "Oh, this isn't up to me, it ha…
A 2020 review of Hetzner Cloud. How does it stack up to DigitalOcean and others? Benchmarks included!
Machine learning (ML) models are susceptible to unintended biases as much as we do. The good news is we can design them not to be.
Completely Fair Scheduler & Multicore Scheduling
Imagine you have a small business.
Gil Damoiseaux has recently shared the result of his attempt to recreate the liquid in a bottle effect from Alyx via a surface shader in Unity. In this article, he shared the technical details of his experiments with different kinds of liquids.
We are working hard to make the official product, the Mozilla VPN, available in selected regions this year. We will continue to offer the Mozilla VPN at the current pricing model for a limited time, which allows you to protect up to five devices on Windows, An…
A version of this article appeared in War on the Rocks. Controlling advanced chip manufacturing in the 21st century may well prove to be like controlling the oil supply in the 20th. The coun…
ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud ready, connected applications. In this episode, Ryan Nowak chats with Cecil about some tools and techniques for doing performance testing against your ASP.N…
The Akamai Edge Live | EMEA Summit 2020 is a virtual conference that brings together industry leaders, technologists, developers, business executives, and thought leaders looking for the latest strategies to maintain business continuity, protect technology fro…
BlazorDay is an event organized by passionate to passionate of Microsoft Blazor technologies. The planning is on https://www.blazorday.net/planning
Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from and often more than one
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ASP.NET Core is our open-source, cross-platform framework for building modern, cloud-enabled, Internet-connected apps. In this series of videos we'll be cover many of the interesting features of the f
Testing with confidence without breaking your users
Source code for this episode is here. We are continuing with our project to gradually morph Abrash’s “remember the living neighbour counts” algorithm into Stafford’s algorit…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s message to employees outlining the company’s latest commitments to racial equity.
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.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
User authentication based on passwords.; User authentication based on symmetric and asymmetric keys.; User-aided authentication and how humans can help secure connections between devices.;
More and more web-site owners are concerned about the "all-seeing Google" tracking users as they browse around the web. Google Analytics (GA) is a full-featured web-analytics system that is available for free and, despite the privacy concerns, has become the …
To take part in our UKMT maths masterclass, please complete the following form. Details on how to access the class will then follow via email on Sunday morning. Depending on demand, we might not be able to include every student.
Antitrust: Commission opens investigations into Apple's App Store rules
Hello guys. I have been holding off to write this in case I was able to solve this problem on my own (which I tried to do very patiently), but the fact that I cannot talk to a human at Apple has prompted me to write this. Today I received another generic respo…
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) enables Windows users to run native, unmodified Linux command-line tools directly on Windows. WSL usage has grown a lot since it was first announced 4 years ago, at Microsoft Build 2016, and now runs on more than 3.5 milli…
We find that, just as a large transformer model trained on language can generate coherent text, the same exact model trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and samples
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The previous record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded was of 1.7 Tbps, recorded in March 2018.
As part of the end-to-end diagnostics and tracing blog series, I had an end goal of eventually publishing out NuGet packages for diagnostics (Activity and DiagnosticSource). I'm happy to announce that I've released 4 packages to NuGet: NServiceBus.Extensions.D…
Tracing your applications allows you to gain some insights into the end to end health of an application. In this episode, Sourabh Shirhatti from the ASP.NET team comes on to show us how to collect and
A security vulnerability report came in that claimed that Windows had a remote code execution vulnerability because it allows malicious characters in file names. Specifically, they noted that if you created a Web server with an image upload page, and if an upl…
In March, we announced that we would pause optional non-security update releases (also referred to as "C" and "D" releases) for all supported versions of Windows client and Windows Server to give organizations time to focus on business continuity in the face o…
developing software and working with a build or integration server, there are certain conventions that one should follow when making updates to the shared codebase
In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Japikse for part 3 of a 10 part series on Entity Framework Core. This series is a follow-up to the 5 part series that was aimed at folks new to EF Core and pr
We continue to improve Windows 10, accelerating innovation with investments in quality, new features, and the overall update experience that are all designed to keep you protected and productive. Today, I am excited to introduce our next feature update, Window…
We are pleased to announce that the June 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code.
We know that many of our customers are facing difficult decisions about how to meet their funding needs for critical IT projects. We’re here to help you meet your financial objectives to ensure your Azure workloads are cost optimized can help free up funds to …
Introduction C# 9 introduces Init-only properties that allow to make individual properties immutable. C# 9...
Introduction This will be the third post on OData and ASP.NET Core 3. Please find the first post (basics) here and the second post (querying) here. This time, I will talk about actions and functions. …
Two days ago I blogged about doing semantic classification of C# code using Roslyn. Today, I wanted to draw your attention to a new feature we have recently shipped in OmniSharp and which is now available as experimental feature in C# extension for VS Code, an…
Allow Func<int, string> = static i => i.ToString();. Proposal added (here) Discussed in LDM 2019-10-21 Decision in LDM Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) Spec'ed To avoid accidentall...
<strong>Module 1/2</strong>This workshop will dive right in to getting you set up and started building a voice-based experience with Alexa. You will leave this session with a working Alexa skill that you can customize and publish as your own.<br>
All Blazor Demos. Contribute to Lupusa87/LupusaBlazorDemos development by creating an account on GitHub.
Juneteenth Conference is a free virtual tech conference made for and featuring Black people in technology. The conference celebrates Black Excellence and promotes community for Black people who are severely underrepresented in the tech industry. We welcome any…
We’re excited to announce that Startup School (SUS) is relaunching today as a continuous program. This change will allow us to serve many more founders than the traditional annual course we’ve been running since 2017 and better support startup founders year-ro…
In May, Lime continued to hold the top spot in App Store user ratings (4.86/5), among all micromobility companies, closely followed by Bird (4.83/5). Though Lime also holds the top spot for cumulative App Store activity (57.8%), in May, Bird saw the highest ac…
There are times when I get tired of all of the major sites and apps that make up a lot of the seen Internet. Sadly, I was born too late to experience the wonder of Geocities and intricate handmade …
To avoid facial recognition, I surgically removed my own face off of my head. Here's how to do it.
These days, we discuss a lot about static site generation when it comes to Next.js. So, it server-side rendering dead?
tl;dr : Due to curriculum disruptions the International Baccalaureate (IB) is going to use a statistical model to assign grades for > 160,000 high school ...
You know what QR Codes are and how they work. But do you know its origins and how it came into existence? Lets take a trip down QR Code history.
I officially got my invite for HEY, the new email platform by Basecamp. I’ve been following this project closely and am excited to test one specific feature that I’ve been curious about…
TextMate is arguably the most influential text editor ever made. Among the numerous features it popularized are:
Entity Framework Core plugin to apply naming conventions to table and column names (e.g. snake_case) - efcore/EFCore.NamingConventions
Software engineers know the importance of sleep; posts extolling its virtues (or the problems associated with its absence) regularly reach the front page of HackerNews. In fact, around the time I finished this post there were two articles on the front page: Fi…
Last week, I decided to start tackling a problem I've had for a long, long time. Brain fog. It's been getting worse over the years - to the point that I don't realise time has gone by. I forget things instantly. A tipping point was recently being unable to wor…
This month, we were very excited to welcome Scott Hunter from Microsoft! He's Director of Program Management for .NET - which includes Visual Studio, .NET Core, .NET tooling, Languages, ASP.NET, Entity Framework and Web Tooling.
Practical samples of aspnet core 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and 5.0 Preview 5 projects you can use. Readme contains explanations on all projects. - dodyg/practical-aspnetcore
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the best way to launch a new software product. The majority of my career has been spent working on small “scrappy” products. Even my enterp…
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