Ireland donates its COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation
Ireland's HSE has donated the world's most successful contact tracing app as open source to Linux Foundation Public Health, supporting the global effort against Covid-19.
Make your feed discoverable
Time and time again I come across fantastic blogs that I want to subscribe to but can’t find a feed for. First I try putting the site into my RSS reader (Miniflux is my tool of choice) but it often can’t find anything. Then I search around the site for the lit…
What about design? | Grumpy pep.
Who around here hasn’t heard about the tragic and inevitable death of XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol)? It’s a pretty common topic in the community and around, often started by users of XMPP themselves missing a certain feature in one or multi…
Nikon D5600 in 2020: still worth it?
Short answer: yes. You should get it. Slightly less short answer: it’s good enough in enough situations that the main thing holding it back is the glass you plant on the front and, to a lesse…
22 Principles for Great Product Managers
Do you aspire to be a world-class product manager? These 22 principles, curated from lessons from one of the world's best technology companies, will help!
Thoughts on Cross-platform
I am convinced that cross-platform is the future for frontend. I don’t want to work separately from the Android team, or even web. There’s this strange disconnect that I honestly hate. It feels like a different company, even when working within the same squad.…
Solving Sudoku with Graph Theory
By transforming Sudoku state into a Graph representation we can find an interesting solution to what would otherwise be multiple nested loops.
Ingradient: building the cooking tool I've always wanted
Years ago, a cooking blog got me thinking about reverse-engineering recipes. I thought I could build an application for that. For those of us privileged enough to contribute, open source software is an endless time sync. I kept putting off the idea for some ot…
Rethinking My Thinking
Seeking creative space, I spent two months exploring productivity and tools for thought. Here's what I discovered.
You Don't See The Whole Picture - Party at the Moontower
Overpriced Or Just Overpriced In Isolation ☀️Sunblock stock (SUN) makes 10% in sunny year. Loses 2% in rainy year. ☂️Umbrella stock (RAIN) loses 2% in sunny year. Makes 2% in rainy year. Assume: The year is 50% to be sunny. The risk free rate is 0 A few things…
Are You Using These VPN Apps? Personal Info Of 20 Million Users Leaked: That’s 1.2TB Data
The VPN services include UFO VPN, FAST VPN, Free VPN, Super VPN, Flash VPN, Secure VPN and Rabbit VPN. These services claim to have as many as 20 million users around the world.
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Tabler Icons
550+ Highly customizable & free SVG icons
I Don't Want to be a Founder and I Don't Think You Do Either | Carol's Blog
Carol Chen's blog about stuff she does or reads about or observes
Overview • Zettelkasten Method
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing that creates an interconnected web of thought. Its emphasis is on connection and not mere collection of ideas.
3D Book Image CSS Generator
Generate an animated 3D image from a book cover and export to HTML/CSS to embed on your website.
Life, part 25
Let’s crisp up the problem from last episode. The problem for today’s episode is to write a method that takes these nine 2-quads: Computes these sixteen 1-quads: And returns these four …
Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare”
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybod…
Implementing cosine in C from scratch
Implementing cosine in C from scratch
r/MachineLearning - [Discussion] OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
620 votes and 222 comments so far on Reddit
Creating Elliptical Curve Keys using OpenSSL
An OpenSSL cheat sheet for creating EC private keys, public keys, and certificates for use with ECDSA.
DIY Video Hosting
Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
GPT-3 is indeed a large step forward for AI text-generation, but there are very many caveats with the popular demos and use cases.
Lecture Slides | Statistics for Applications | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare
This section includes a full set of the lecture notes.
Team Objectives - Overview | Silicon Valley Product Group
After many years of being a very vocal advocate for the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) technique, in the majority of companies I meet, I have stopped recommending the practice. That’s because, in so many companies, even though conceptually the technique is s…
iamshaunjp/deno-websockets
All course files for the Deno WebSockets (simple chat) course on The Net Ninja YouTube channel - iamshaunjp/deno-websockets
BunnyCDN - Simple, Powerful & Lightning Fast CDN
BunnyCDN is a simple but powerful CDN, offering lightning fast performance for a fraction of the cost with free SSL, Brotli, HTTP/2 and 100% Pay As You Go pricing.
dendron
The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
Asynchronous messaging with Azure Service Bus
This article presents how to implement asynchronous communication between microservices using Azure Service Bus
Four Reasons React Renders (and three ways to stop it) – Cory House
There are four events that cause a React component to render:
Sort Data With ASP.NET Core and Query Strings
Anyone building a web application will eventually have to deal with sorting tabular data. It’s a rule established into the constitution of the internet (if there was one). While it may be simple in concept, its implementation can be daunting based on many appl…
Travis logs and .NET Core console output
This is a blog post rather than a bug report, partly because I really don’t know what’s at fault. Others with more knowledge of how the console works in .NET Core, or exactly what the T…
Ian Bebbington - Cross-Platform Real-Time Communication with Uno & SignalR
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Microservices with ASP.NET Core 3.1 | Pro Code Guide
This article will cover in detail how to create Microservices with ASP.NET Core with Serilog, Exception Handling, Swagger UI, Health Checks & Docker.
Azure SDK Release (July 2020) | Azure SDKs
Welcome to the July release of the Azure SDK. We have updated the following libraries: App Configuration Cosmos DB (Java only) Key Vault (.NET only) Search These are ready to use in your production applications. You can find details of all released libraries o…
A new, more simplified setup for X-Ray tracing of .NET applications | Amazon Web Services
AWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications. Customers use X-Ray to monitor application traces, including the performance of calls to other downstream components or services, in either cloud-hosted applications or fr…
Eliminating duplicate objects: three approaches
In this blog post, we look at three approaches for eliminating duplicate objects from Arrays.
How to make separate Work and Personal Profiles with the New Microsoft Edge on Beyonce's Internet
I'm a long time Chrome user but have been slowly finding myself using the new Edge (Edgium?) and am now basically ...
In Praise of Elevated Values
You know what you don't get when you work with Enumerables and Observables?
Azure SQL Bootcamp
August 17 - 20 [Click here for iCal Invite] Along with launching new content in August, we're also hosting a LIVE bootcamp over the course of four days where you can learn Azure SQL from Anna Hoffman
Tip 271 - Azure Functions and secure configuration with Azure Key Vault
Almost every application uses application secrets. These are often values that you use to connect to other services, like a connection string to Azure Storage, or an API key to connect with a 3rd party API. Where do you store these secrets securely? And how ca…
.NET Foundation Board Elections – Meet the Candidates!
This is your .NET Foundation!
Experiment: Wirelessly Control a Cyborg Cockroach
This experiment is appropriate for college students. Also, high school students with adult supervision.
Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet
Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, No! Logging VPN!'
Worms Armageddon 3.8 Features - Worms Knowledge Base
A Bug-Sized Camera for Bug-Sized Robots and Bug-Sized Bugs - IEEE Spectrum
As if it’s not hard enough to make very small mobile robots, once you’ve gotten the power and autonomy all figured out (good luck with that), your robot isn’t going to be all that useful unless it can carry some payload. And the payload that everybody wants ro…
Cryptography Dispatches: DSA Is Past Its Prime
Welcome back to Cryptography Dispatches, my lightly edited newsletter on cryptography engineering. Reminder: there's no tracking, so I count on your replies...
Amazon.com: Customer Questions & Answers
Yes, below is System requirement: Windows 7/8/10, OS X 10.9 or later, Android 8.0 or later, Linux. PC: Intel Core i5-3400 + NVIDIA GT630 … see more Yes, below is System requirement: Windows 7/8/10, OS X 1…
Wattpad data breach exposes account info for millions of users
An allegedly stolen Wattpad database containing 270 million records were being sold in private sales for over $100,000. Now it is being offered for free on hacker forums.