25 September 2020

53 links · Friday

Swift System is Now Open Source

In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is fo…

IntelliCode Team Completions

Visual Studio IntelliCode uses machine learning to offer useful, contextually rich code completion suggestion, in-line as you code. In this episode, PM Caty Caldwell shows a new feature of IntelliCode

Securing Services with MSAL

It's common for web, desktop, or even mobile applications to require access to protected resources in their environment. This may be custom Web APIs, Microsoft Graph or some other third-party service.

Azure Container Instances (ACI) under the hood | Azure Friday

MacKenzie Olson shows Scott Hanselman the latest innovations in the infrastructure that powers ACI and a peek at the product roadmap, including a demo of the managed identity experience coming soon.

How I Became the...

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Is this real life?

In his bestselling book Sapiens, Yuval Harari argues that humans became the dominating species of planet earth because we are the only animal that can cooperate in large numbers. This, he claims, is due to humans' ability to believe in purely imaginative thing…

Most Technical debt is just bullshit

I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me, saying: "technical debt is just bullshit". In his experience, people talking about technical debt were mostly trying to:

Things Elixir's Phoenix Framework Does Right

I dabbled in Phoenix for a while now, but never really got my hands dirty with it right up until now. Apart from the whole framework being surprisingly well thought through, there are a few things that strike me as being done exceptionally well in Phoenix, com…

The failed promise of Web Components – Lea Verou

Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers. Remember how exciting it was every time we got new shiny HTML elements that actually do stuff? Remember how…

PG and Jessica

A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or...

Getting Started with System.CommandLine

Creating good command line apps are easy, simple and straight forward if you have the right tools. System.CommandLine is an amazing library that will help you make an amazing CLI.

BBC Sound Effects - Research & Education Space

BBC Sound Effects - 16,016 sound effects and field recordings from the BBC Archive available to listen/download, licensed for personal, educational or research purposes - Research & Education Space

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave: Show #1

I’m so excited to announce this new weekly one hour live show on C# Corner! Each week, on Saturday and 10am PST, I will bring the latest news for developers, tips, discussion, weekly segments…

Lightning Interviews with Danny Thompson - Part 1 [w/ASL Interpreting]

Danny Thompson will prerecord a series of interviews, which will stream consecutively during this time. Guests: - Christina Beckford https://twitter.com/DevDivaHacks - Natalie Davis https://twitter.com/codeFreedomRitr - Erika Myles https://twitter.com/EriPDe…

This AI Restores Old Photos with Damages AUTOMATICALLY

A week ago Microsoft released a new paper called: Bringing Old Photos Back To Life. This is probably the best physical damage restoration for images I've ever seen. It also includes facial enhancement which is really accurate too. A pretty big contribution fro…

Learn Git Branching

An interactive Git visualization tool to educate and challenge!

Looks Like the Windows XP Source Code Just Leaked on 4chan

Would you believe more than 1% of computers worldwide are still using Windows XP? Incredibly, there are still millions of people using 19-year-old operating system. And a recent development — if it bears out — is another reason  people need to make the switch …

Save your spot at the Azure Data Explorer online event!

Join us to hear all about the great new features, announcements, and collaborations for Azure Data Explorer - Azure’s fast, fully- service for real-time analysis of telemetry big data streaming from apps, websites, IoT devices, and more.     One of Azure’s mos…

TodoMVC Full Stack with Azure Static WebApps, Node and Azure SQL #beginners #node #sql #serverless

TodoMVC is a very well known (like ~27K GitHub stars known) application among developers as it is a really great way to start to learn a new Model-View-Something framework. It has plenty of samples done with different frameworks, all implementing exactly the s…

Escaping the Dark Forest

On September 15, 2020, a small group of people worked through the night to rescue over 9.6MM USD from a vulnerable smart contract. This is our story.

Work on what matters

Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.