21 July 2020

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shanselman/Hanselminutes-Transcripts

An attempt to get some proper MD transcripts for the Hanselminutes Podcast - shanselman/Hanselminutes-Transcripts

Scaling relational SQL databases – Software development and beyond

Many applications today still rely on traditional SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDb or PostgreSQL for data storage and data processing. With the growing amount of data and new workloads that are made with this database systems, we often find ourselves in situa…

Email Your Memory

A couple of months ago, my friend <a href="https://whoo.ps/" class="inherit">Jonathan</a> introduced me to spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is a method to augment your long-term memory. This is how I have been using it to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet (…

India, Jio, and the Four Internets

There are four Internets: China versus the U.S., and the E.U. and India. India’s potential new model rests on Jio.

How to Choose What To Read

There are a lot of books in the world. How do you choose which ones to read? There are at least two questions here: What topics should I read about?What books do I read within a topic?For some people, the answer to the topic question is easy. They're

Opinions are a liability

Opinions that we hold, that do affect the world external to us, are a liability. The very nature of opinions dictate that we can’t really test them and come to…

The Thinking Placebo

The list of human abilities that computers cannot do is swiftly diminishing, and we may want to be wary of how our current epistemology of thinking confounds the progress being made and its implications.

Reforming Wall Street, Protecting Main Street - Obama Foundation

Ten years ago today, President Obama signed the most far-reaching Wall Street reform since the Great Depression, a major milestone in the wake of the Great Recession to strengthen the American economy and help guard against future financial crises. Learn what …

Release Tye 0.4 · dotnet/tye

Release notes These are the release notes for the 0.4 release of Tye. The package version is: 0.4.0-alpha.20371.1 See getting started for installation instructions. Notable changes and features Azu...

Getting Started With ASP.NET

A set of short videos to understand the basic landscape of an ASP.NET Application.

Why you need "cross-origin isolated" for powerful features

Some web APIs increase the risk of side-channel attacks like Spectre. To mitigate that risk, browsers offer an opt-in-based isolated environment called cross-origin isolated. Learn why cross-origin isolation is needed to use powerful features such as SharedArr…

Making your website "cross-origin isolated" using COOP and COEP

Some web APIs increase the risk of side-channel attacks like Spectre. To mitigate that risk, browsers offer an opt-in-based isolated environment called cross-origin isolated. Use COOP and COEP to set up such an environment and enable powerful features like Sha…

ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 5 Preview 7 | ASP.NET Blog

.NET 5 Preview 7 is now available and is ready for evaluation. Here’s what’s new in this release: Blazor WebAssembly apps now target .NET 5 Updated debugging requirements for Blazor WebAssembly Blazor accessibility improvements Blazor performance improvements …

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 7 | .NET Blog

Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 7. It’s the second to last of the preview releases (before moving to RC). Most features should be very close to done at this point. Single file and ARM64 intrinsics are two feature areas that are taking the longest time …

Stripe: Building a Developer Cult

What makes Stripe a favorite of developers, the advantages of building a cult, and the how the little things add for developers

Invert, always, invert

man muss immer umkehren - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi(loosely translated - Invert, always, invert) Today, we will look at one of my favourite mental models called - The Inversion principle. Mental models are a set of simple, abstract but useful principles that he…

ShareX - Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

Netlify Serverless Functions with Netlify Dev

It's never been easier to create Serverless Functions. With Netlify, you can create and deploy Serverless Functions in minutes! In this video, I'll show you how to run your Netlify Serverless Functions locally using the Netlify CLI and Netlify Dev command. __…

SQL Server 2019 Tuple Mover Behavior Change

This is a follow-up to my post about an issue with clustered columnstore, when upgrading from SQL Server 2017 to SQL Server 2019. After extensive testing and working with support, I wanted to share some information about a change in SQL Server 2019 that might …

Essays on programming I think about a lot

Computers can be understood • Choose Boring Technology • The Wrong Abstraction • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names • The Hiring Post • The Product-Minded Engineer • Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend • The Law of Leaky Abstractions …

Zoom Earth – View LIVE satellite images

Watch LIVE satellite images of weather, storms, wildfires and more, updated in near real-time. Zoom into high-resolution satellite maps.

Effect Programming in C#

Programming with algebraic effects and handlers, a method for reasoning about computational effects of programs that originates from functional programming research, has recently found increasing a…

Zoekmachine met gelekte wachtwoorden bevat 10 miljard accounts

De zoekmachine Have I Been Pwned heeft de grens van tien miljard gelekte accounts overschreden. Op de website kunnen mensen achterhalen of hun e-mailadres voorkomt in gelekte databases. Troy Hunt, de Australische beveiligingsonderzoeker achter de website, spre…

Zero to Hero with App Service, Part 4: Migrate Applications to Azure App Service

In this installment of Zero to Hero with App Service, learn how to migrate your existing applications to App Service. If you followed parts one, two, and three then you already have an application on App Service, and you can continue to the next article.   Ove…

Azure Service Fabric 7.1 Second Refresh Release

The Azure Service Fabric 7.1 second refresh release includes bug fixes, and performance enhancements for standalone, and Azure environments has started rolling out to the various Azure regions. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK and Service Fabric Runtime is a…

NerdyPepper/dijo

scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker. Contribute to NerdyPepper/dijo development by creating an account on GitHub.