Stalker Online hacked! Over one million gamers' passwords made available for download
More than one million players of the video game Stalker Online have been put at risk after hackers offered them for sale on the darknet.
Gift of inspiration and its role in technology
Musings about inspiration, its importance for technological progress and a call for action to inspire those around you.
When threadWaitRead Doesn't
One might think threadWaitRead (and related functions) will block until a socket receives new data for reading.
Improve your web typography with a few solid tips
I try and make my websites look nice. I think the visual aspect of a website is very important especially to an average visitor. A regular person doesn't care a
How to Transition to a Tech Career
Given the pandemic’s impact on the economy, there are many Americans rethinking their career situations. One sector that has not only survived but thrived in the current business climate is technology. So many employees are now working remotely, and this is pu…
Reflections on Being a Female Founder
Not a lot is written about being a female founder and CEO. I used to believe that my journey as a startup founder was the same as any other founder's experience, regardless of gender, in that it is...
Good intentions make bad roadmaps - andre.schweighofer
Typical roadmaps are glorified to-do lists. They hide uncertainty and focus on output. Avoid these mistakes and make your roadmaps leaner.
Radar Theory and Teardown of Aircraft Transponder RT-459A
I recently got my hands on an old unserviceable aircraft transponder from my flying club. The tinkerer me was obviously very curious on what’s inside this piece of equipment. What better way to find out then to do a teardown! Aircraft Radio Corporation (ARC) …
Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
FRANKFURT, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The 55th edition of the TOP500 saw some significant additions to the list, spearheaded by a new number one system from Japan. The latest rankings also reflect a steady growth in aggregate performance a…
There Is No (Real World) Use Case for Face Super Resolution
A blog post about the PULSE paper and the general problems of super resolution.
Spotify is trying to embrace, extend, and extinguish open podcasting – Kyle Piira
I really love podcasts. Not only do they provide great entertainment value as an alternative to audiobooks, but they are also one of the last open ecosystems on the web. Anyone can start a podcast by publishing an RSS feed on their website without having to re…
Safari 14 Beta Release Notes
Safari 14 ships with iOS 14 and macOS 11.
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ASP.NET Community Standup - May 26th 2020 - Blazor WebAssembly 3.2 Release Party!
Join members from the ASP.NET teams for our community standup covering great community contributions for ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, and more. Community links for this week: https://www.theurlist.com/aspnet-standup-2020-05-26
The Next Step for Mixer - From the Myxer
From the beginning, Mixer has been about creating the most engaging and interactive livestreaming experience. We set out to help streamers build great communities based on deep engagement with their audience. You all have been amazing throughout this journey –…
I created a perfect AI for Fruit Ninja
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schenkd/nginx-ui
Nginx UI allows you to access and modify the nginx configurations files without cli. - schenkd/nginx-ui
The warnings have changed into bannings
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Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure
Azure provides customers a simple and intuitive way to declaratively provision and manage infrastructure through Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates.
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Life, part 17
Code for this episode is here. We’ll take a short break from getting to our C# version of Stafford’s algorithm; in this episode I want to talk about some improvements to the UI, and als…
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Game Dev Digest Issue #47 - C#, Patterns, Nintendo-style Effects, Free Project Starters, and lots more!
Game Dev Digest Issue #47 - C#, Patterns, Nintendo-style Effects, Free Project Starters, and lots more! The latest from the free weekly Unity3d/gamedev newsletter.
Build a Blazor WebAssembly LOB App Part 4: Make it Blazor-Friendly
Part 4 of the series that describes a fully functional real-world project built in Blazor WebAssembly with EF Core. Part 4 explains how the app was refactored to current state in order to take advantage of more built-in Blazor features..
.NET Foundation Election 2020 Nominations are Open!
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Yet another robust outlier detector
Yet another robust outlier detector
[ANNOUNCE] WireGuard Merged Into OpenBSD
JoeMayo/LinqToTwitter
LINQ Provider for the Twitter API (Twitter Library) - JoeMayo/LinqToTwitter
Using Azure CLI to create Azure App Registrations
This blog shows how to setup Azure App Registrations using Azure CLI and Powershell. The scripts setup the configuration for the applications created in the previous posts in this serious. The aim …
AdrienTorris/awesome-blazor
Resources for Blazor, a .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly. - AdrienTorris/awesome-blazor
gioblu/PJON
With PJON you build networks of devices for free with no need of a cloud service or a centralised platform you don’t fully control. - gioblu/PJON
Chat Wars
In the summer of 1998 I graduated from college and went to work as a programmer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was put on the group that was building MSN Messenger Service, Microsoft’s instant messaging app. The terrible name came from Marketing, which…
Software & Hardware Used in Formula 1
F1 cars have a lot of hardware and software on board. In this video, I explore what hardware the cars run on, the software that powers them, and the tools used at the factories. 📚 Sources The sources used to make this video are listed on my website: https://…
Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 Release | Windows Command Line
Welcome to the first update of Windows Terminal Preview! You can download Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. The latest features in this release will move to Windows Terminal in July 2020. Let’s check out what’s…
InnoDB Internals - Consistent Reads
Overview I’ve been doing some research in this area trying to understand how this works in databases (for my upcoming project), so I thought I’d share some of my learnings here. InnoDB internally uses ReadView to establish snapshots for consistent reads - basi…
7 Things to Enjoy in Maui and .NET MAUI
.NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) is the next evolution of cross-platform UI solution for .NET developers. Let's explore the promise of .NET MAUI.
Code snippets for Xamarin Forms XAML Platform-specifics
This post is part of Luis Matos Code Snippets’ Xamarin Month In the early days of Xamarin Forms, if you wanted to use a platform-specific feature of a page or a view, you’d have to write a cu…
UnoConf 2020 (Virtual & Free) – Aug 12, 2020 – Save the date - Uno Platform
Much like the rest of the industry, we’ve moved our annual conference to your favorite device – desktop or mobile! UnoConf will be a half-day, single-track free online conference on WinUI and Uno Platform powered cross-platform application development for Desk…
Task.WhenAll / Select is a footgun 👟🔫
This post differs from my typical fayre. Most often I write "here's how to do a thing". This is not that. It's more "don't do this thing I d...
Sysinternals ProcDump For Linux | Build5Nines
Sysinternals are very widely used tools from Microsoft in the Windows world, and now the ProcDump utility has been ported over to Linux as an Open Source
Introducing C# 9: Questions & answers about Records
Introduction You have been many to ask me questions about the records in C# 9...
How to Develop Inside a Container Using Visual Studio Code Remote Containers - Docker Blog
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version announcements!
Matrix.org
Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication
Wireless is a trap
Over and over again, I’ve seen people fix some wireless-related problem and go “wow, I had no idea how much better this could be!” • Wireless protocols often silently operate in an extremely degraded state that makes them substantially worse than wired equival…
@adlrocha - Software should be designed to last
And why I am trying to minimize my dependence on external libraries (whenever possible).
Delores Source Code Released!
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
'CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src' - MARC
Toddler Password - Secure passwords generated by a toddler
Generate a secure password with the random typing of a toddler
Memory-prediction asymmetry
I recently read “Recognizing vs Generating.” The author poses the question, “both reading the textbook and writing proofs feel like they fit the definition ‘studying’,…
I used to run my own mail server
I used to run my own mail server on this domain. That’s because I receive email at this domain, and being a student at the time, I didn’t want to pay an addi...
Writing a curriculum vitæ
I have been giving a lot of feedback about how to write a better curriculum vitæ (CV) recently. This post is a way of structuring and disseminating my thoughts on this matter. As a start, let me briefly delineate what this post is not about: I am not discussin…
6 Months of Spanish Progress
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Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Deobfuscating the Undeobfuscatable
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How I cleared my inbox of calendar updates
We all tried it. You invited a semi-large group of people to a meeting, and now you are getting spammed with calendar responses.
How not to be sad
I’ve tried to write (what feels like) 15,000 versions of this essay. All of them ultimately cratered by the fact that it’s hard to write jocularly about deep emotional topics or emotionally about...
Reviews of distributed filesystems | Regressionist
I have a lot of data to work with, and I want to do it with just my mismatched bunch of servers, desktops, SSDs, and spinning disks. My equipment is old, so I want a filesystem that is robust not only to the failure of any drive, but also to the failure of any…
Log-Structured Merge-Trees
A log-structured merge-tree (LSM tree) is a data structure that is typically used when dealing with write-heavy workloads. The write path is optimized by only performing sequential writes. LSM trees are the core data structure behind many databases including i…
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When I ask ask people about their approach to continuous integration, I often hear a response like
Following Your Dreams Full-Time Isn't Expensive — farza
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Hacking Starbucks and Accessing Nearly 100 Million Customer Records - Sam Curry
After a long day of trying and failing to find vulnerabilities on the Verizon Media bug bounty program I decided…
On using WordPress as a back end
WordPress is great as a proof-of-concept backend for your future web app. Let me tell you why.