13 July 2020

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Why Do We Have Dev Rels Now?

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. …

Philipp is annoyed

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…

Why you should be more unlikeable

Popularity feels good, but it doesn't lead to fulfillment. Try pissing a few people off this week and see how it goes.

Head asleep, body awake

By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: July 12, 2020

A $50.000/year streaming service | Gianluca Mauro

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…

Doing the impossible

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…

Give some ❤️ to your PR

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!

Why Every Developer Should Start Blogging

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...

Matthew Leibowitz - Uno Conference

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 …

Life, part 23

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…

A few thoughts about Signal’s Secure Value Recovery

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…

Performance Improvements in .NET 5 | .NET Blog

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.

GitHub Status

Welcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

Dyxsleia

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Generating the Premier League Table in F#

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...

On Reactive Programming

Well, some say the Creator took a handful of sand and - wait, no. Why are we here? Why ReactiveUI?

A .NET Color Console Helper

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 …

Entity Framework Core In-Depth Part 10

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

The Future of Online Identity is Decentralized — yarmo

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…

Entity Framework Core In-Depth Part 9

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

A Developer's Introduction to Data Science Video Series

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…

Get up and running with Kubernetes

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 …

Multiple Monitors with Touchscreens

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…

stu2b50

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…