The Languages Which Almost Became CSS - Eager Blog
The history of all the languages which almost became CSS.
Air pollution is much worse than we thought
Ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.
Epic files suit against Apple after Fortnite pulled from iOS App Store [Updated]
Epic was not shy about its frustrations with Apple’s and Google’s 30% cut of sales.
Stop Getting Fu*ked By Technical Recruiters - A Nerd's Guide to Negotiating Salary, Benefits, and Raises - Scott Turman
You probably never had anyone teach you how to negotiate your salary or benefits. Not your parents, school and certainly not your employer. Learning to negotiate how much you will charge for your labor may be one of the most important life skills you can ever …
Post-Open Source
FOSS is dead. what now?
How I Offloaded My Anxiety to Trello
I’ve never been good at what you might call “life admin”, but I used to keep track of it through having a high level of 1) recall, 2) guilt and anxiety. I can’t say this sys…
How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
Within two emails, a merchant went from blatant dismissal to full payment, and I owe it to The Organized Professional Method.
Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite
Epic Games has defied the App Store Monopoly. In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fortnite from a billion devices. Visit fn.gg/freefortnite and join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming "1984" #FreeFortnite #FortniteMac #FortniteiOS #FortniteApple
.NET Rocks! vNext
.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
The Fortnite Mega Drop - Permanent Discounts Up to 20%
Announcing the Fortnite Mega Drop. Save up to 20% on all Fortnite purchases on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Mac, and on mobile when using select payment methods.
Life, part 31
Today we will finish off our implementation of Hensel’s QuickLife algorithm, rewritten in C#. Code for this episode is here. Last time we saw that adding change tracking is an enormous win, b…
If the NSA has been hacking everything, how has nobody seen them coming?
As the Snowden leaks continue to dribble out, it has become increasingly obvious that most nations planning for "cyber-war" have been mer...
Handles are the better pointers
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How to Build a Pig Latin Translator with Vanilla JavaScript
Building fun apps with vanilla JavaScript is good practice and just plain fun. Let's build a Pig Latin translator with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript _____________________________________________ Newsletter 🗞 Interested in exclusive content and discounts?…
BlazorTransitionableRoute 1.0.2
Transitionable routes for Blazor and Razor Components
Build Auth FAST for Blazor WebAssembly in .NET
Learn how to secure an ASP.NET Core Blazor WebAssembly Progressive Web Application with Okta. Using PKCE: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/08/22/okta-authjs-pkce Okta is a developer API service that stores user accounts for your web apps, mobile apps, an…
JByfordRew/BlazorTransitionableRoute
Allows current and previous route to exist enabling transition animations of UI/UX design systems. - JByfordRew/BlazorTransitionableRoute
Stopping phishing campaigns with bash
how to poison phishing sites with fake data
VisualSOS.Extension - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio - Visual SOS is both a standalone application (x64) and extension for Visual Studio that exposes functionality in SOS (debugging extension) not available in Visual Studio Debugger. It comprises the fol
Vitamin D, part 1
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Release 0.6.0-preview1 · dotnet/blazor
This is a preview of the Blazor 0.6.0 release. To install this release you can either download and install the Blazor language service extension for Visual Studio, or you can install the Blazor CL...
EmailPwd: Has your email been hacked?
Find out if your email address has been compromised or your password has been stolen from EmailPwd from Linktech Australia
Announcing the new Jupyter Book
Note: this announcement is cross-posted between the Jupyter Blog and the Executable Book Project updates blog
How to optimize your Azure workload costs
Learn how guidance in the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework, tools like Azure Advisor, and offers like the Azure Hybrid Benefit and Azure Reservations can help you operate more efficiently on Azure.
Securing Web Application Secrets Through Azure Key Vault - Simple Talk
Azure Key Vault is a service for storing securely certificates, credentials, connection strings, and more. In this article, Rishit Mishra walks through how to use the service to secure a connection string for an application.
Secrets of a .NET Professional
Working as a .NET Professional is a tumultuous rollercoaster ride of emotional highs and crushing lows. It’s likely the same for other communities, with different flavors of success and failures. I have over a decade of .NET development work, and I am here to …
Data Prep for Machine Learning: Encoding -- Visual Studio Magazine
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code program and screenshots to explain how to programmatically encode categorical data for use with a machine learning prediction model such as a neural network classification or regression system.
TDD and Exception Handling With xUnit in ASP.NET Core
We continue building out an ASP.NET Core web API by adding tests with xUnit and using those to guide implementing exception handling.
.NET Framework August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates | .NET Blog
Today, we are releasing the August 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2020-1476– .NET Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when ASP.NET or .NET Framework web applic…
Durable Functions: Part 1 – The Intro
No Code in this post. Here we establish the starting point Event Driven Programming is a popular way to approach complex systems with a heavy emphasis on breaking applications apart and into smalle…
Serverless apps on AWS using F# and fable
I've been using some (f)un-employment time to remind and upskill my knowledge of AWS. I've also wanted to try out the framework to build…
Raise less money
Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves in their seed and A rounds. Counterintuitively, dilution seems to rise along with price. One...
Building & Debugging Microservices faster using Kubernetes and Visual Studio
See how you can take advantage of Visual Studio tools to build, debug and deploy microservices to Kubernetes faster.
Why Bertrand Russell's argument for idleness is more relevant than ever
We are used to thinking of idleness as a vice, something to be ashamed of. But when the British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote “In Praise of Idleness” in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, idleness was an unavoidable reality for the millions who …
Learn to write COBOL programs in VS Code
The COBOL programing language first appeared over 60 years ago. Today it still powers much of the world economy. COBOL is often used to process the most critical data. It is one of the main languages that powers large mainframe computers. Because of its age a…
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