PRE-ORDER Odyssey Number Five Deluxe Edition: https://powderfinger.lnk.to/odyssey
PRE-ORDER new Powderfinger merchandise:
https://powderfinger.lnk.to/pre-order
PRE-SAVE Odyssey Number Five on your preferred platform:
https://powderfinger.lnk.to/pre-save-ody…
Back when I was into competitive gaming, I accidentally stumbled onto a strategy to consistently get my teams into the top 25 of the worldwide gaming ladders. I call the approach "Chaining Wins", the approach held even when we started playing newer versions of…
louiebacaj.com·Written by Louie Bacaj··3-4 minutesgaming
Django is currently the most commonly used full-stack web framework for Python. It has
been around for a good 15 years, emerging as a winner from a period in which
Python was already mature, but its web development tools were comparatively
much more immature a…
A couple years back I built Uber Trip Stat’s (now renamed to RideShare Trip Stats after a C&D from Uber), because I was interested in how much money I had spent on Uber over the last few years. Luckily Uber’s web portal lets you see all your past rides, and it…
On Aug 4, 2020 I woke up to a slightly different world – I had lost my business as it seemed. Full inbox of reports of my apps not launching (crashing on launch) and after not too long I found out that when I sign into my Apple developer account I can no longe…
blog.charliemonroe.net·by Charlie Monroe··4-5 minutesapple
Everyone has a different style when negotiating – and all of these styles lend themselves to have better outcomes depending on the topic at hand and who you’re speaking to. Having exper…
I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.
This is very simply idea that has helped me in a number of different ways in the recent past: recording my initial reaction to things. All this means is immediately saving my thoughts on a topic somewhere, as opposed to the usual ... "I'll write this down late…
In this post, I present my opinion on why unifying the iPad and MacBook lineups is a good idea, from the perspective of a regular user of both these devices and keeping in view Apple’s planned processor transition.
This is a photograph of Mt. Solitary, in the Blue Mountains of Australia, after which this website was named. In this strange and uncertain time in the histo...
This ports the managed SHA* hash functions from https://github.com/microsoft/referencesource so we can use them on Browser/WASM where we don't have OpenSSL.
There's no managed implementatio...
Friends, in these tough economic times, we’re all expected to go above and beyond the usual call of duty. My very dear friend Miguel regularly executes on this mantra and today was no exception.
Dr. Stephanie Kelton is the most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT rede…
« usbkill » is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports and then immediately shuts down your computer. - hephaest0s/usbkill
Being a developer is a lot more than just writing code. Justin and I discuss some of the hot topics for developers: marketing and building a brand, how to avoid burnout, creating content, how to learn, etc.
Connect with Justin Chau
Instagram - https://www.ins…
In this video, I answer the question "How to Cancel Tasks in C# using the CancellationTokenSource and CancellationToken objects?".
Cancelling a Task in C# is pretty straight foreword. There are actually several ways to cancel a Task in C#. The three most comm…
Holy goodness, we are on part 30; I never expected this to go for so long and we have not even gotten to Gosper’s algorithm yet! We will finish up Hensel’s QuickLife algorithm soon I ho…
Splitting this out from #71 which was rather broad. There are (at least) two separate issues there; one is where user-specific config files should live, and another is where project-specific config...
With each passing day, the .NET ecosystem introduces new target environments. In addition to Windows environments, we can now deploy to Linux, macOS, and all popular mobile operating systems. Having t
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework designed for microservices. In this talk you will learn how to use gRPC in .NET and see how gRPC's support for deadlines and cancellation can be used to create fast, reliable microservice apps.
Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 and Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 1. Both versions include additional Git integration, .NET Productivity improvements, WPF additions, and C++ improvements.
devblogs.microsoft.com·Jacqueline Widdis Release Manager, Visual Studio Release Team Follow··15-19 minutesidesgitlinuxdotnetjavascript
Across Microsoft, we are helping a new generation of technology workers develop the right level of skills. Recently, Microsoft announced the availability of new virtual learning programs. These programs, focused on technical topics are already helping people e…
In this video, I answer the question “Why is async void bad and how do I await a Task in an object constructor?”. Async void is generally considered bad for 3 reasons: 1. You can’t wait for its completion (fire and forget) 2. Any unhandled exceptions will term…
brianlagunas.com·Brian Lagunas View all posts··2-3 minutesdotnet
I was asked what the meaning of default(object) is in the following piece of code:The code is something that you’ll see a lot in RavenDB indexes, but I under...
We'd love your feedback on our top requests for web apps features submitted to The Web We Want Initiative. The Web We Want is a cross browser and standards initiative to gather feedback from developers and designers around the pain points they encounter while …