Yesterday, the Internet Archive filed our response to the lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers to end the practice of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), the digital equivalent of traditional library lending. CDL is a respectful and secure way to bring …
Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20170 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. PLEASE NOTE: Windows Insiders with PCs that have AMD processors will not be offered this build today due to a bug impacting overall usa…
I purchased the original AirPods back in 2017 when they were first released. They have been my favorite product of the past couple of years and I highly recommend them. Recently I noticed the batteries in the pods not lasting as long as they used to. I was con…
Understanding the importance of inflection points in technology, startups, and investing. Inflection points matter because they create shifts that cascade down for multiple decades
Everyone knows Amazon started with books but a few other "origin stories" may surprise you....
Say you want to display the contents of a file on the command line. The first tool we most of us reach for is cat, which does a fine job at just this. But what happens when you are on a Linux machine and when you try to cat a file this happens: $ cat file.txt …
Drive past an apartment complex in your area and you will likely see a “For Lease” sign. At first glance, you’d be lead to believe you could find a rental almost anywhere, with no competition to...
Company also urges app devs to start using newer web tech like HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3, citing similar performance and speed improvements.
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Here’s what I know about QM. I’m trying to learn QFT and it helps to have this stuff compressed into the simplest possible representation.
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Complete lecture slides for 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems.
The HTTP Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line tool that's supported everywhere .NET Core is supported and is used for making HTTP requests to test ASP.NET Core web APIs and view their results.
As per the new education policy approved by the Narendra Modi-led government, students in India will be taught coding as a subject from as early as class 6th. Typically, students in class 6 standard are roughly around 10-11 yrs of age. The aim behind teaching …
Ain't no mountain high enough
A Piece of Pi, on brown paper, signed by Brady. Each piece (A5 sized) is unique and contains 2500 digits of the famous constant. See the pictures. Pieces like this were sent each Patreon supporter (at $3.14 and above) who had joined by the end of February. But…
Extension for Visual Studio - Provides the Angular language service to enable editor features for Angular templates.
We now have enough gear to make a naïve “proto-QuickLife” implementation as a test to see (1) does it work at all? and (2) what is the performance compared to our other implementations …
How to use WinDBG with .NET Core 3
In a previous post, I wrote about using GitHub Actions to automate the promotion of my blog posts. While the GitHub Action works, the approach lacks any sense of state and tracking. The tweets that promote my posts are random, and that can create an uneven mar…
This is your .NET Foundation!
This is your .NET Foundation!
Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science…
Burnout is a legitimate struggle especially for developers. I'll walk you through some of the things I do to help prevent/deal with burnout myself! _____________________________________________ Newsletter 🗞 Interested in exclusive content and discounts? 🤯 …
Originally streamed at https://twitch.tv/davidwengier This week we make use of the tree renderer that Scott so kindly donated, but of course that means first we have to completely rearchitect how we store tracks, so bring on the ELDD, the Error List Driven De…
This video is explains the Backtracking algorithm and how it can be used to solve a sudoku. Along with the explanation of the algorithm, Python code is used to show the implementation. Let me know if you have any feedback and don't forget to subscribe for mor…
GitHub Sponsors is a step forward, but it's far from a panacea. I propose an alternative model for open-source funding.
July introduces new options to drill into your cost data, save on Azure VMs and Data Lake storage, as well as new videos for even more cost-saving tips and tricks.
Using the same NuGet Package (PackageReference) across multiple projects? Here are ways to specify them in a single place for your entire solution.
This post covers how to handle concurrency in an ASP.NET Core Web API with a SQL backend and Dapper
Last year I posted about a series of posts that Beatriz Stollnitz made on WPF/Silverlight that had been moved to GitHub. Unfortunately most of the samples don’t work out of the box with the latest version of Visual Studio but with some minor adjustments they’r…
The realm of cybersecurity is more than a combination of its technical components like hardware and software. It’s an industry that’s founded on the innovation and creativity of its practitioners—continually discovering better ways to protect our homes and our…
Who knew that the knowledge of the true progenitor of the action RPG would be hidden in a stuffy basement in Akihabara, Tokyo?
A Universal Basic Income (UBI) would improve everyone’s lives, increase our free time, empower workers, and ensure everyone has food and a roof over their head. These are noble goals, but obviously there’s a downside or it would already be implemented, right?
In Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test, Kevin Lacker found that GPT-3 does well answering simple factual questions like “Who was president of the United States in 1955?”, but also happily answered absurd qu…
The Cybercrime industry represents an over trillion-dollar industry that is ever-changing and growing all the time—a threat to all companies around the world. Like many in our industry, Blackbaud encounters millions of attacks each month, and our expert Cy…
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