23 July 2020

57 links · Thursday

Whose bug is it anyway?

I found a curious little bug and I’m interested in who you think should take responsibility for it. My mobile network provider sent me this message: I clicked on the link, and got this error …

ARCHITECTURE.md

Open Source Software and especially large projects have a few defined standards that are used to promote welcoming new contributors and ensure a healthy collaborative environment like for example CONTRIBUTING.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, and issue/pull request temp…

Marketing Month Week 2

Most of my week was spent running ads, and here are the main lessons learned.

China launches ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars rover mission

The Tianwen-1 mission launched atop a Long March 5 rocket from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center early this morning (July 23), kicking off a seven-month cruise to Mars.

Five Buck Fatigue - Underjord

This is about a reaction I noticed with myself in response to membership programs, patreons and individual sponsorship as I've run into significantly more of these following Corona. The advertising-supported model has confirmed many of the concerns about its s…

On .NET Live - A chat with the .NET Interactive Team

For our first live stream of On .NET Live, we'll catch up with Maria and Diego from the .NET Interactive project to find out what they've been working on. We'll discuss new ways for learning .NET, as well as opportunities for content creators.

Recent influx of substack posts to Hacker News

I got the sense that there were a sudden influx of x.substack.com submissions to HN. So, I did a really rough analysis of HN posts from the last week and then back 20, 30, 60 days ...

My Backup Plan & Lessons learned

I've posted about my backup plan before, but a lot of things have changed, and I have learned a lot about what works, and what doesn't work for me. Skip to the end of the post if you just want to see my backup plan Lessons learnedOver the past 5

The Third Cornet - with Katie Steckles — Numberphile

Dr Katie Steckles is a mainstay of the mathematics communications scene and a regular in our videos. Here she discusses her life at school, university, and now as a freelance maths communicator. Plus life as a pirate.

obfuscar/obfuscar

Open source obfuscation tool for .NET assemblies. Contribute to obfuscar/obfuscar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Inside a Collaborative Text Editor

Collaborative editors are defined by the size and speed of their updates. On a website you might submit a form, but in a collaborative editor you can send a single character or key press.

.NET Presentations: Events in a Box!

Welcome to .NET "Presentations in a Box." We have a listing of workshops and presentations YOU can use AND contribute to! Remix and share, and present at Meetups, User Groups, CodeCamps, or Conferences! Not familiar with .NET? Download open source .NET Core f…

Archive

Life, part 26

Last time on FAIC we saw how we could start with nine 2-quads — a 12×12 grid of cells — and with only a handful of ands, ors and table lookups we could get an 8×8 grid of cell…

Dhghomon/easy_rust

Rust explained using easy English. Contribute to Dhghomon/easy_rust development by creating an account on GitHub.

Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft

Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today announced it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft Corporation before the European Commission. The complaint details Microsoft’s illegal and anti-competitive practice of abusing its market dominance to…

TinyPilot: Build a KVM Over IP for Under $100

Using only a Raspberry Pi and an $11 video capture dongle, you can create your own KVM over IP device, allowing you to send keyboard input to a remote computer and capture its display.

I Created An A.I. to DESTROY Tetris

Ahh yeah its tetris, you might have heard of it. Tetris is a game which i am making, i have made it, thats what the video is, god what a terrible description. I create an AI to beat the world record for the longest tetris game. Twitter: https://twitter.com/c…

Cognitect Joins Nubank

Cognitect news, musings and more.

My Process for Creating YouTube Videos

Lots of people have asked about my process for creating YouTube videos, so I wanted to take a few minutes to share. I also talk about all of the gear that I use (cameras, lights, software, etc.) if you stick around to the end. _________________________________…

1 Second Painting - Home

Generate abstract paintings in one click with a state-of-the-art neural network. Built for artists, developers, and hobbyists.

KDE Slimbook

The first Linux ultrabook with a Ryzen 4000 processor and KDE's full-featured Plasma desktop and hundreds of Open Source programs and utilities.

RGB Keyboard as Audio Level Meter

I wrote some code to control the RGB lights on Cooler Master keyboards based on audio playback. The keyboard is a CK530. https://github.com/clarejor/Spectrum-Keys

Amazon Ion

Amazon Ion is a richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format offering interchangeable binary and text representations. Ion was built to address rapid development, decoupling, and efficiency challenges faced every day while engineering …

.NET Conf: Focus on Microservices

Join the .NET Conf free virtual event July 30 to learn about microservices with .NET. Mark your calendar!

troyhunt/hibp-stickers

This is artwork that can be used to create stickers for Have I Been Pwned - troyhunt/hibp-stickers

Build software better, together

GitHub is where people build software. More than 50 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.

MSIX Packaging Tool July 2020 Release is now available!

We are happy to announce that the July 2020 release (1.2020.709.0) of the MSIX Packaging Tool is now available!   We have release the MSIX Packaging Tool through the Microsoft Store, and are offering the offline download of the tool and license here as well.  …

Windows Terminal Preview 1.2 Release | Windows Command Line

Welcome to another release of Windows Terminal! This release promotes the Windows Terminal Preview version 1.1 into Windows Terminal. Windows Terminal Preview has new features for version 1.2 which will appear in Windows Terminal in August. You can download Wi…

.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview | .NET Blog

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET – Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. – Addre…

Microsoft Campus Tours - Inside the NEW Channel 9 Studio

A little bit over a year ago, Golnaz, Kaitlin, and Matthew crawled out of a windowless studio and saw the sun for the first time in years. Their old manager, Larry, decided to help rebuild a studio so they could see the sun more regularly. Thus, the new Channe…

.NET Foundation Projects

Projects and the people behind them are at the heart of what .NET Foundation is all about. These days, you’ll find a wide variety of projects, including the .NET Compiler Platform, ASP.NET, .NET Core, and Xamarin Forms, along with the popular .NET open-source …

propjockey/css-sweeper

MineSweeper implemented in CSS + HTML using the Space Toggle trick (no JavaScript!) - propjockey/css-sweeper

Apple Security Research Device Program - Apple Developer

The Apple Security Research Device Program is designed to help improve security for all iOS users. It features an iPhone dedicated exclusively to security research, with unique code execution and containment policies.