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 th...
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 ...
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 s...
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 so...
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 t...
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.
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 eve...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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…
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 librar...
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 ...
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 h...
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!'
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 wan...
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, O...
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.