At the end of June, I launched a business-focused extension to my open-source project. The multi-tenant SaaS boilerplate for Laravel. The sales completely exceeded my expectations.
To see just how prevalent items of personal data are being listed on the dark web, and at what price, we sent our researchers on a data-gathering mission.
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Recently I read two books I’d recommend that got me thinking about how the IT industry has changed in the last 20 years. These books are The Great Convergence and Capitalism Without Capital. …
The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”
The first generation of the AirPods was generally regarded as a perfect product. “Apple at its best!” was the universally accepted opinion.
I used them for a long time. No speaker issues, no battery issues.
Excited for the noise ca…
Harvard University announced that next academic year will be 100% online.
And the tuition won’t be a dime cheaper.
Why does it matter?
I don’t want to question the worthiness of such an investment. Yet, I can’t help but wonder if you’ll loose some of your retu…
All things which are proved to be impossible must obviously rest on some assumptions, and when one or more of these assumptions are not true then the impossibility proof fails—but the expert seldom…
Your PRs should be crafted in a proper way. This is important for your work, for your reviewers, and also for you. Let's find out why and how to give some ❤️ to your PR!
Hello everyone! Hashnode has proudly launched the #2Articles1Week challenge! How exciting! To commemorate the start of this challenge, I'm dedicating this post to Hashnode and the fellow writers on this platform who are also partaking in this challen...
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Matthew Leibowitz is a senior software engineer for Microsoft working on many things mobile and cross-platform. He spends most of his time creating and improving libraries and tools for everyone in the development community. One such library is SkiaSharp with …
This series is getting much longer than I expected, but I’m having a great time, so let’s keep it going. I want to look at two more algorithms; for the next few episodes we’ll loo…
Over the past several months, Signal has been rolling out a raft of new features to make its app more usable. One of those features has recently been raising a bit of controversy with users. This i…
In previous releases of .NET Core, I’ve blogged about the significant performance improvements that found their way into the release. For each post, from .NET Core 2.0 to .NET Core 2.1 to .NET Core 3.0, I found myself having more and more to talk about.
Fix 1: Disposal method 2 clears canvas
The old code was restoring pixels from an earlier frame with disposal method 2 in this test GIF. This disposal method should instead clear the canvas.
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This post shows how to configure Azure Function projects so that no secrets are required in the local.settings.json or in the code. Secrets for the project are saved in the user secrets of the proj…
We want to make sure that you are designing and building AWS-powered applications in the best possible way. Back in 2015 we launched AWS Well-Architected to make sure that you have all of the information that you need to do this right. The framework is built o…
During lockdown, I’ve made another effort at learning F#. This time I think I’ve had a bit more success. Processing data is something that we as developers d...
In this short post I'll discuss a small Console helper class I've been using to make it easier and more consistent to use colors with the .NET Console command. The .NET Console support colors easily enough, but switching colors and resetting them can be a bit …
Let’s have a look at how to introduce Entity Framework Core 5 in ASP.NET Core project in .NET 5. We will start from an empty database, where we have a clean slate and can add tables the way we want.
While there are many UI libraries available today to build modern web apps, the number of programming languages that compile to JavaScript has also increased in recent years. Here is a quick take on F# and TypeScript.
In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Japikse for part 10 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 p
Online identity refers to the concept of "being" in the digital world. As an internet user, you exist. You create accounts on websites. You write on social media and blogs. You post photos. All this online activity has in common that one and the same person pe…
In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Japikse for part 9 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
Data has been a critical piece to effective software applications and products for decades, but in recent years the amount of data and the tools to learning from that data quickly with tools and services has been increasing rapidly. Because of that, it is beco…
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Build, deliver, and scale container-based applications faster with Kubernetes. Learn the basics of Kubernetes, then discover how to easily deploy and manage containers at scale with Kubernetes on Azure.
With the Kubernetes collection, you’ll get three e-books …
A short tutorial post on multiple screens for laptops with touch-support and ArchLinux. Also evolved into a long rant, with an Easter egg.
Background Of late, I have been attempting to move away from paper, for environmental reasons1. Years of touch typing in…
At some point, I got tired of my old static site generator setup for my blogs and other pages. It was annoying to ssh every time I wanted to make a modification, it was annoying to sftp or sshfs all my images, and so forth. And god forbid, if you ever wanted s…