Why Beeminder?
I vigorously encourage you to use Beeminder for tracking, maintaining, and modifying habits.
ClickHouse, Redshift and 2.5 Billion Rows of Time Series Data
Let’s walk through using AWS to generate 2.5 billion rows of true time series data, and then using ClickHouse to demonstrate some very impressive performance.
The Definition of News Has Been Legally Changed
The onus of verification is now entirely up to the audience.
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source
For the last couple of years, DigitalOcean has run Hacktoberfest, which purports to “support open source” by giving free t-shirts to people who send pull requests to open source repositories. In reality, Hacktoberfest is a corporate-s...
Semantically Modeling of Narrative Events
Semantically modeling of narrative events with accompanying interactive 3D environments.
Fast Builds: Make a Url Shortener with .NET
Quickly prototype your first URL Shortener with .NET 5. This tutorial will show you how!
planck constant
Planck constant. Awakening to Self. Body Shamanics. Healing. Thoughts and images. Technology and interfaces.
Using Hangfire and MediatR as a Message Dispatcher
You can use two popular libraries in Hangfire and MediatR to create a pretty powerful in-process and out-of-process messaging solution
Blazor Guru Details Best Performance Practices -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft's point man on the Blazor project -- and basically the creator of the project -- Steve Sanderson, is detailing performance best practices for the web development framework that uses C# instead of JavaScript.
How to not get lost while job-hunting?
Are you unhappy with your current job? Has your career stopped at some point, and you have no idea what to do next? Or you just need some fresh air, a new job, but are afraid to change? You are not alone with these feelings! In my earlier post, I ad...
The Coinbase post was 100% right. Here's what you can do about it
Recently there was a minor controversy over a blogpost from Coinbase’s CEO discouraging employees from thinking about politics, and encouraging them to focus on profit-making.
Personality Does Not Define Success
Tim Cook wakes up at 3:45 am . Yoshiro Nakamatsu dives underwater for the best ideas . Marissa Mayer personally approves every hire…
The story on how I discovered, fell in love and abandoned Event Sourcing
Well, yeah … quite the title here, for quite the story. To be honest, I discovered and used Event sourcing way before it was called event sourcing, and way before it was cool, or at least at …
Objects Of Power
Langdon Winner’s Do Artifacts have Politics? (synopsis of the essay) has been a bit of a touch stone for me in the last few months. The essay makes clear that the things humans make have both intended and unintended consequences. Some of these objects affect s…
How about connecting any BLE, Modbus, Serial IoT device to Azure easily? That's what the IoT Plug and Play bridge is for! Learn more on the #IoTShow with @obloch
You can now connect existing sensors to Azure with little to no-code using IoT Plug and Play bridge! For developers who are building IoT solutions with existing hardware attached to a Linux or Windows
Code scanning is generally available - GitHub Changelog
Code scanning is generally available
Ideas from my Development Setup: Always Tmux :: Ceda EI's Blog
Use tmux at all times in my dev setup
Dan's Tattoo Assassins Page
Tattoo Assassins: Data East's lost fighting game.
teenage engineering – OB–4 magic radio
introducing OB–4, the portable high fidelity loudspeaker with two 4'' bass drivers and a pair of neodymium tweeters that deliver crystal clear, open natural sound with 38 watts per channel — that's around 100 decibels
Episode 348 - Cloud Skills Challenge
The Azure Podcast
Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers
The European Commission is conducting an in-depth investigation of the Google/Fitbit deal. A static, conventional view would suggest limited issues from a merger of complements. Yet, as this column outlines, unprecedented concerns arise when one sees that allo…
How to Build Securely with Blazor WebAssembly (WASM)
Learn how to securely build front end WebAssembly sites in .NET's Blazor WASM and C# - no Javascript required.
Microsoft Retools WPF Open Source Effort After Negative Feedback -- Visual Studio Magazine
After a GitHub survey about its .NET open source efforts yielded negative feedback, Microsoft is retooling its efforts for the most problematic repo, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
Transitioning the Dapr project to open governance
About one year ago, we released Dapr as an open source project to enable developers to build event-based, distributed applications using a wide variety of different programming languages and platforms. Since the initial release, we have seen tremendous adoptio…
NASA Built Two Versions of the Apollo Command Module
My companion article, which also has a full source list, is over on my blog at Medium: https://medium.com/@AmyShiraTeitel/why-nasa-built-two-versions-of-the-apollo-command-module-e6a6f1d59632?sk=426cc66555576d07d72e92067e1c0165 (My blogs are edited versions o…
.NET Interactive Preview 3: VS Code Insiders and Polyglot Notebooks | .NET Blog
With .NET Interactive Preview 3, we've added a VS Code Insiders experience and a number of new features to our existing .NET notebooks support for Jupyter.
Collect and Automate Diagnostic Actions with Azure App Services | Premier Developer
Reed Robison shares techniques to collect and automate recovery behavior with Azure App Services. Troubleshooting production systems is often a balance between restoring services quickly and trying to collect enough information to isolate what caused the issue…
Entity Framework Community Standup - Sept 30th 2020 - Geographic Data with NetTopologySuite
Joe Amenta joins us to discuss how to add spatial data to your applications to open a world of new relationships between data. He will demonstrate the "status quote" for querying spatial data from .NET Core and demo integrations with NetTopologSuite and EF Cor…
Welcoming Gitter to Matrix! | Matrix.org
Six Figures in 6 Days
Insights on earning over $100,000 in less than a week.
Validating an input on keypress instead of on change in Blazor - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to validate an input on oninput event instead of on onchanged event in ASP.NET Core Blazor.
GameDataCrunch: my facts-first game metrics website
I'm working on a new website called GameDataCrunch.com, a new way to understand the game industry by looking at metrics and slicing them up in a bunch of different ways.
Coinbase offers exit package to those uncomfortable with new direction
Coinbase is offering a package for employees seeking an exit after the release of a blog post from its CEO.
Flexbox Froggy
A game for learning CSS flexbox
Bonus operations for C++/WinRT iterators: The IIterator<T> | The Old New Thing
C++/WinRT provides iterators for a number of basic Windows Runtime collections. Let’s start with the lowest-level Windows Runtime iterator-ish thing: The IIterator<T>, which represents a cursor in a collection. C++/WinRT adds two additional operators to the Wi…
C# Language Highlights: Tuples
In this video, Maira and Kendra will teach us how to use tuples in C#. The tuples feature provides concise syntax to group multiple data elements in a lightweight data structure. To learn more about o
Hangfire + MediatR = Message Dispatcher
You can use two popular libraries in MediatR and Hangfire to create a pretty cool solution to move messaging out-of-process into a separate worker. Here's how you can take these two libraries and use them together. 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/chann…
dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs
Documentation for ASP.NET Core. Contribute to dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Provisioning resources on AWS using AWS CDK and Azure DevOps Pipelines
Introduction First of all let me tell you that I’m huge proponent of Terraform as a framework for defining infrastructure in code. One of the things that I like most about Terraform is that not only every major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) offers their own…
Hackers jailbreak Apple's T2 security chip powered by bridgeOS - Report Cyber Crime
The Apple T2 security chip has finally been jailbroken! Here’s all you need to know about it. The Apple T2 Security chip now has a jailbreak The latest update of checkra1n adds support for bridgeOS – the operating...
NDC Sydney 2020 | Online Developers Conference
NDC Sydney 2020 is a 5-Day Online Conference Event
Customer Success Engineer- Australia
We are looking for a passionate Customer Success Engineer to bring Pulumi’s cloud programming model to the world. You will be a part of realizing a vision where every developer can program the cloud. In this customer-facing support engineering role, you wil…
.NET App Developer Links - 2020-09-30
The latest news and resources for .NET app developers.
Release OBS Studio 26.0 · obsproject/obs-studio
As usual, if you would like to support our project, please check us out on Patreon or OpenCollective! New Features and Additions Windows: Added Virtual Camera, allowing you to use the OBS output a...
Seeing Theory
A visual introduction to probability and statistics.
Immutability in JavaScript
This post covers immutability in JavaScript, how the concept can help us write better applications and manage our data.
A simple pattern for using System.CommandLine with dependency injection | endjin
Have you tried using the new System.CommandLine packages? This blog shows you how to build up a command line tool quickly and easily, using dependency injection for the initialisation.
Getting rid of array bound checks, ref-returns and .NET 5 – TooSlowException
Imagine we have a simple class, a wrapper around some array of structs (better data locality etc.):
Find and Compare Removalists
findamover.com.au takes the hassle out of finding a removalist by quickly allowing you find and compare quotes from the best removalists throughout Australia
New features in the fish shell
Fish (the "friendly interactive shell") has the explicit goal of being more user-friendly than other shells. It features a modern command-line interface with syntax highlighting, tab completion, and auto-suggestions out of the box (all with no configuration r…
From Zero to main(): How to Write a Bootloader from Scratch
An in-depth tutorial on how to write a bootloader from scratch for ARM cortex-m series microcontrollers.
Alcohol poisoning - Symptoms and causes
SwiftUI 2.0: Flexible Layout Design
Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 4:00 PM: Sr iOS Engineer at Adept Mobile and Author of SwiftUI Projects for Pack. Presenting to us from Tampa, FloridaIn this talk, Craig will show you what you can do to create fle
Repo experience survey results | .NET Blog
A couple of months ago we ran a survey of our github community to understand our users satisfaction and experience with the mechanics of how the projects are open-sourced with the community. This post shares the results.
A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 15
From Java 8 to 15
Vespa vs. Elasticsearch for matching millions of people
As a dating application, an integral part of the experience is in recommending to you great potential matches based on the myriad of preferences you and your potential matches have set.
Rust 2021: GUI
This is a response to the Rust call for blogs 2021 and also a followup to last year’s entry. It will be entirely focused on GUI.
The .NET Portability Analyzer - .NET
Learn how to use the .NET Portability Analyzer tool to evaluate how portable your code is among the various .NET implementations, including .NET Core, .NET Standard, UWP, and Xamarin.