Block websites from reading or modifying Clipboard contents in Firefox - gHacks Tech News Depending on how a website is configured, it may be able to read or modify Clipboard events that happen on it. Say, you highlight text on the site to copy it to …
Introducing Amazon Honeycode – Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code | Amazon Web Services VisiCalc was launched in 1979, and I purchased a copy (shown at right) for my Apple II. The spreadsheet model was clean, easy to use, and most of all, easy to teach. I was working in a retail computer store at that time, and knew that this product was a b...
I have stepped down as a Microsoft MVP After nearly ten years, I have stepped down as a Microsoft MVP due to unacceptable behaviour of some of my MVP peers both towards me and ‘in passing’ where I have been exposed to vile c…
Check out this London tube map made from a working circuit board Fancy a tube map with a difference? How about one made from a circuit board - with lights that show live train movements?
What Silicon Valley Doesn’t Understand About Agriculture – Thinking Agriculture I was browsing HackerNews recently and a (rare) agriculture news story popped up, this one to be specific, but there are others. As these are of interest to me I clicked and read through the comments. These linked articles aren’t all that note-worthy, but...
LEGO blocks and organ transplants People have been comparing software components to LEGO blocks for a couple decades. We should be able to assemble applications by snapping together modular
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project - TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the web - WWDC 2020 - Videos - Apple Developer Face ID and Touch ID provide a frictionless experience when logging in — and now you can use them on your websites in Safari with the...
Video: "My girlfriend had to subscribe to my Twitch channel to tell me to open the door" - Charles Leclerc Charles Leclerc forgot to open the door for his girlfriend and she had to create a twitch account and subscribe to him so he notices and opens the door
Keep all your packages up to date with Dependabot - The GitHub Blog Dependabot alleviates the pain of updating your dependencies by doing it automatically, so you can spend less time updating and more time building.
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac - Preview Release Notes Release notes for new/upcoming features in Visual Studio for Mac, available for pre-release testing by downloading the Preview version.
Announcing OpenJDK for Windows 10 on ARM | Java at Microsoft Today, our team is excited to share that it has completed the first phase of porting OpenJDK™ for Windows 10 on Arm® (AArch64) based devices.
How to Utilize gRPC-Web From a Blazor WebAssembly Application Its no secret by now that there has been a lot of excitement about gRPC recently in the .Net community. gRPC is a modern high-performance…
Introduction to quantum computing with Q# – Part 4, multi-qubit gates In the previous post of this series, we discussed single qubit gates. In this next instalment, we are going to explore gates that act on multiple qubits at once, thus completing the exploration of quantum circuit building. We are also going to slowly, but...
Entity Framework: .NET Community Standup - June 24th 2020 - EF Core in Blazor 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-2020-06-24
F# and Functional Programming! Functional Programming and F# have been around for a while now and many developers aren't really familiar with what it is, how it helps, or when to use it. We decided to bring in an expert to help answer these questions. This week, we welcome Stachu Koric...
Google blew a ten-year lead. - Second Breakfast Back when there were rumors of Google building an operating system, I thought “Lol.” Then I watched then-PM Sundar Pichai announce Chrome OS. My
Add Apple Silicon support by lambdageek · Pull Request #20014 · mono/mono Contributed by Apple The original contributed patch was against a relatively old version of Mono. In particular, mono_arch_get_enter_icall_trampoline was renamed to mono_arch_get_interp_to_native_t...
OpenDiablo2/OpenDiablo2 An open source re-implementation of Diablo 2. Contribute to OpenDiablo2/OpenDiablo2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests
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Account details for 4 million Quidd users shared on hacking forum | ZDNet Users of Quidd, an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, are advised to change account passwords as soon as possible.
Workshop: ML.NET Training - 1/2 - NDC Melbourne 2020 <strong>Module 1/2</strong>This ML.NET workshop teach will teach you how to build, train, and consume Machine Learning models in .NET applications using ML.NET. Specifically, you will build a .NET Core application for training an ML.NET model and then con...
What I learned from looking at 200 machine learning tools To better understand the landscape of available tools for machine learning production, I decided to look up every AI/ML tool I could find. The resources I us...
Elevator.js Are you sick of clicking 'back to top' buttons on websites, and being lifted to the top without a real elevator experience? Elevator.js is here to help.
Introducing C# 9: Improved pattern matching Introduction Pattern matching has been introduced in C# 6 and has well evolved since. The...
It’s all in the Host Class – Part 2: Configuration .NET Core gives flexible options to configure app settings. The Host class has DI, configuration, and logging built-in. Let’s look into the configuration part of the Host class.
Exclusive: Segway, the most hyped invention since the Macintosh, ends production The Segway brand will no longer make its two-wheeled, self-balancing namesake.
Differences between String and string in C# - Code Maze In this article, we're going to tackle the popular question among many developers, and that's "What's the difference between string and String".
Deploy a .NET Container with AWS Fargate This is a tutorial on how to secure your .NET containerized chat app with AWS Fargate and Okta.
New Windows Containers GitHub repo - Roadmap and more! Over the years the Windows Containers team has strived to listen to customer feedback to implement features and allow new scenarios based on what we hear from you. Today we’re taking another step in expanding our ability to interact directly with customer...
jantic/DeOldify A Deep Learning based project for colorizing and restoring old images (and video!) - jantic/DeOldify
Import X509 certificate and collections from PEM. by vcsjones · Pull Request #38280 · dotnet/runtime Fixes #31944 This does not have unit tests that exercise the *File import methods. While I'd like those tested, I'm not sure of the best way to do it. Write the file out to a temp location?...
Path Building vs Path Verifying: The Chain of Pain Disclaimer: This post represents personal opinions and thoughts, and does not represent the views or positions of my employer, Google.
Path Building vs Path Verifying: Implementation Showdown Disclaimer: This post represents personal opinions and thoughts, and does not represent the views or positions of my employer, Google.
Terminology, Power and Oppressive Language This document argues for and describes alternatives that shift specific language conventions used by RFC Authors and RFC Editors to avoid oppressive terminology in the technical documentation of the RFC series. Specifically, this document details two sets...
Nobody knows what an 850% increase is, so please stop saying it - Sam Ireland You Won't Believe This One Weird Trick for Properly Communicating Large Relative Increases.
A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data! If you must suffer data loss then at least make sure you collect a good story from the experience! I believe I have such a story. Recently,...
Bit Hacks in C# Bit hacks are an incredibly powerful tool in every developer's toolbox. When used correctly, they can bring simplicity, performance and scalability,
Lighthouse Syndrome It's satisfying to see a 100% score on Lighthouse. But what's the meaning of that score?
Reflections from a Week of Vagabonding (Pt. II) – The Blog of Joe Balcom On any cross-country road trip, you will be amazed at the subtle differences you notice when crossing from state to state...
Don’t fight the trail. Take what it gives you. I started running 5 miles every other day a few months ago when the stay at home order started. I’ve stuck to that schedule ever since. I’m finding that running does 3 things for me. Fi…
Dungeon Scrawl | Home A simple and effective grid-based mapping tool to help you set the scene for any battle.
Notes on Note-taking I was recently a guest on the show where we discussed note taking, here are my preparation notes for the discussion.
So you want to become a senior engineer? Every now and then, I’ll get a DM from a software engineer asking me how they can become senior engineers and generally grow their careers