6 July 2020

45 links · Monday

Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine

Here's a demo of a rendering engine I've been working on that allows for non-euclidean worlds. Source Code and Executable: https://github.com/HackerPoet/NonEuclidean Music: "Automatic Loving" - Dee Yan-Key

Model 777 — Luca Iaconi-Stewart

The homepage of the work for which I'm best known — a model Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders!

How I Got My Attention Back

There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking at your phone. And yet so few of us choose to do so. Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.

Life, part 21

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Screen space shadows

After working on Spartan game engine for so long, it became increasingly obvious that there are many interesting things that I could be writing about. However, I kept postponing it as I was growing fond of Hugo and didn’t want to invest any content (or money) …

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI

Through a reduction of data requirements, H.266/VVC makes video transmission in mobile networks (where data capacity is limited) more efficient. For instance, the previous standard H.265/HEVC requires ca. 10 gigabytes of data to transmit a 90-min UHD video. Wi…

Hat Problems - Numberphile

Featuring Joe Buhler. See part 2 of this interview: https://youtu.be/4YG4QnhVV7A More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ An Introduction to Infinite Hat Problems (paper): https://bit.ly/31OeWZK See also Spheres and Code Words with James Grime: http…

Stacks of Hats (extra) - Numberphile

Featuring Joe Buhler, continuing from: https://youtu.be/laAtv310pyk Lionel Levine: http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~levine/ Hat Stack: https://www.brand.site.co.il/riddles/201607a.html NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: htt…

OData with ASP.NET Core

This article explores how to setup an OData API with ASP.NET Core. The application uses Entity Framework Core with a database first approach using the adventureworks 2016 Microsoft SQL Database. Co…

Blazor WebAssembly : Using HttpClient in MVVM - EP09

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The myth of NoSQL (vs. RDBMS) "joins dont scale" - Blog dbi services

By Franck Pachot . I’ll reference Alex DeBrie article “SQL, NoSQL, and Scale: How DynamoDB scales where relational databases don’t“, especially the paragraph about “Why relational databases don’t scale”. But I want to make clear that my post here is not agains…

Flexible Access Token Validation in ASP.NET Core

The ASP.NET Core authentication system went through a couple of iterations, and is pretty good now. For API scenarios, the typical choice is the JwtBearer authentication handler, which can validate…

Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust

I recently wrote my first 4K intro in Rust and released it at the Nova 2020 where it took first place in the new school intro competition. W...

ANN: Cosmos DB Profiler 1.0 Release

We have released version 1.0 of the Cosmos DB Profiler. You can now use it from inside Azure Function and profiler production systems remotely. I have wrote ...

Change Feed – Unsung Hero of Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Azure Cosmos DB is rapidly growing in popularity, and for good reason. This globally distributed, multi-model database service has massively scalable storage and throughput, provides a sliding scale for consistency, is fully and automatically indexed, exposes …

HTTP OPTIONS and Default page vulnerabilities

Penetration tools may alert if IIS server is accepting requests with HTTP OPTIONS method. This is because the response to these requests may reveal what other methods are supported by the web server.   Follow the steps below to disable OPTIONS method. Open II…

bach-sh/bach

Bach Testing Framework. Contribute to bach-sh/bach development by creating an account on GitHub.

A Distributed Tracing Adventure in Apache Beam

Distributed systems are hard, and things can often get much more difficult when problems arise. This is only exacerbated by the fact that many of these systems can be notoriously difficult to dig into when they are actually out in the wild and not just running…

mfreeborn/heliocron

A command line application written in Rust capable of delaying execution of other programs for time periods relative to sunrise and sunset. - mfreeborn/heliocron

willmcgugan/rich

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. - willmcgugan/rich

AbdulMalikDev/ounotes

An Application built for students to access Notes , Question Papers , Syllabus and Resources for all Subjects of O.U (Osmania University) 📘👨‍🎓 - AbdulMalikDev/ounotes

Debubble

The world needs debate and Twitter isn't helping. Challenge someone to a civilised debate today and let Debubble facilitate it.

Castle Game Engine

Free open-source 3D and 2D game engine with an excellent support for many formats (X3D, VRML, Spine...). Cross-platform: desktop, mobile (Android, iOS), web plugin. Many graphic effects: shadows, mirrors, shader effects. Using modern Object Pascal. The engine …

Why I’m Writing A Book On Cryptography

I’ve now been writing a book on applied cryptography for a year and a half. I’m nearing the end of my journey, as I have one last ambitious chapter left to write: next-generation cryptography (a chapter that I’ll use to talk about cryptography that will become…