5 October 2020

63 links · Monday

In tepid defense of…

Hey all, I’ve been swamped at work and haven’t had any bandwidth or energy for blogging, but I’ve actually been working up ideas for a new blog series. I’m going to call it …

Who monitors Prometheus?

Who monitors monitoring? How to sleep well and know that watchman is working instead you. Prometheus, Dead man switch, PagerDuty

Fighting the Tinder++ Malware

People who search for love are more vulnerable than happy couples. Especially people wo lost their Tinder Account because Tinder has banned them. There is a malware out there which targets exactly this kind of people. If you search for “unban tinder&rdqu…

Why do AirPods sound so bad when you’re on a call?

Play something on your AirPods. Some music, a podcast, a voice recording, just about anything and it will sound quite good. Now compare that to how it sounds while on a call. Goto Sound settings > "input" > Your AirPods, MacOS will continue playing your audio…

Twitter is holding me hostage

How Twitter is holding me hostage by suspending my account at will for seemingly no reason

How men can change themselves and the world

This was originally shared in my newsletter that I send out bi-weekly on what I’m learning and writing about in the topics of mindfulness, relationships, and technology. Not a …

Coach! Football is life. | Gergely Nemeth

Ted Lasso is one series we all need in 2020. It reminds us that kindness, being nice to each other, can make a difference and what good leadership is like

Influence of Minimalism

I follow minimalism thinking for some long period of time. It helps me to navigate in this world, make choices, grow and expand area of my freedom. I would like to share how minimalism influences me as an engineer and my life in general. How thinking works in …

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

Back in the day, there was a gold-standard website layout that everyone strived to create, but that was notoriously difficult to get right…

I built a lay-down desk

After spending part of the last 12 months travelling in Europe I'm now settling down around Paris and I need to adapt my multi-screens setup. You probably have seen an ads for the altwork desk a $7000 desk that let you work laying down. Spending a big part of …

Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

Back in the day, there was a gold-standard website layout that everyone strived to create, but that was notoriously difficult to get right…

Slack System Status

Resources for real-time and historical information about the Slack service.

Memoria [EN] No. 36 (09/2020)

Inside: - "Polish Legation in Bern. The Unspoken History". The First Monograph about the Group Led by Aleksander Ładoś - Sara J. Bloomfield: The Lessons of History and Social Media - Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust and of Racial Violence in Slovakia …

DotNet 2020 [Online]

The most important tech event for the software development community is back in its first online and charitable format!

C# in Simple Terms - Operators

=, ==, !=, +=, -=, ??=, +, -, *, /, %, ++, --, !, &&, ||, &, |, ^, <, <=, >, >=, ?:, and ??

Register to Vote

MyTexasVotes.com | Your one-stop voter information hub that includes everything you need to vote

Article series: Yet Another Bug Tracker

Alex Klaus has decided to take up the task of showing how to build a non trivial application using RavenDB. The domain of choice is Yet Another Bug Tracker, ...

222: Cool New Tech

Drone cameras, 3d printing with pens, google tvs, and so much more!

Deploy your .NET Blazor app in minutes with Azure Static Web Apps

> TLDR; Azure Static Web Apps is a service that allows you to deploy both JavaScript apps but now also Blazor apps. The service is simple to use as it only requires an Azure subscription and a GitHub repo. That's all the set up you need. Resources Blazor on S…

Create a Website Scraper for Azure Functions

There are many reasons you may need a website scraper. One of the biggest reasons I use website scrapers is to prevent me from visiting a site to look for something on a regular basis and losing the time spent on that site. For instance, when COVID-19 first hi…

dotnet/HttpRepl

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 C...

The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet

The New York Times this morning published a story about the Spamhaus DDoS attack and how CloudFlare helped mitigate it and keep the site online. The Times calls the attack the largest known DDoS attack ever on the Internet.

davidwengier/winforms

Windows Forms is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications. - davidwengier/winforms