9 October 2020

55 links · Friday

Working From Home

My experience WFH 100%

Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole

Over the past few months I've had an ergonomic keyboard obsession. It started out simple, just wanting to improve my typing experience. It ended with me writing a driver. This is my story - now available as an audiobook!

Could you do this?

Could you jump off a ten meter diving platform? It doesn’t sound that bad, does it?

Electronic Signature and Sales Document Tracking Software

Get your documents signed 40% faster with zero-setup electronic signatures. Docsketch helps you cut turnaround time and makes it easy for everyone to electronically sign your documents.

Memory Safe ‘curl’ for a More Secure Internet

Memory safety vulnerabilities represent one of the biggest threats to Internet security. As such, we at ISRG are interested in finding ways to make the most heavily relied-upon software on the Internet memory safe. Today we’re excited to announce that we’re wo…

Brainwashing by Social Media

Introduction There has been a lot of discussion around the Netflix show “The Social Dilemma” which blames social media algorithms and corporate greed for the irrational beliefs held by large segmen…

Stopping a Project

It’s a pretty good reason not to publish something if you’re not happy with the quality. That’s why we don’t plan to release matter.md.

Leading the Global Tech Community with Anna Chu

Did you attend the VIRTUAL Microsoft Ignite event this year? Do you want to get the details on what was successful, what could be done differently and what we can expect on the horizon for the next Ig

Episode 349 - Advancing the Outage Experience

With the recent spate of outages in Azure, it became important to understand how customers are notified about these unfortunate events. Sami Kubba, a Principal PM Manager in the Azure CXP team, gives us insights into what happens behinds the scenes when these …

C# 9 Language Features

C# 9 is one of the most exciting features that developers are expecting with the release of .NET 5.0. In this episode, Jared Parsons joins Rich to show us some of the language enhancements we can look forward to in this new update to C#. [01:20] - What can …

Neuron 1.0 released

z:/neuron?cf (GitHub repo) is a note-taking tool based on Zettelkasten, that aims to be future-proof, and is optimized for publishing on the web. Version 1.0 just got released, with better linking support and many other improvements.

MediatR 9.0 Released

A small release, from the release notes: This release contains a small, but breaking change. In order to provide a simpler interface, the IMediator interface is now split into two interfaces, a sender and publisher: public interface ISender { Task<TResp…

Code Maze Weekly #46 - Code Maze

This week we’ve had plenty of articles to go through, and we loved it. As always there are a variety of categories and topics to choose from, so make yourself comfy, prepare a favorite brew, and just click on your favorite topic to read. .NET and C# Adding hea…

October of Releases

This month James and Matt talk about all of the new releases and latest news that are out and ready for you to code with in October!

Blazor in Action

An example-driven guide to building reusable UI components and web frontends—all with Blazor, C#, and .NET.</b><br/><br/> Blazor, a powerful C#-based frontend framework from Microsoft, makes it easy to create fast rich web applications without the limitations…

Developing with Design

How to get the worlds of software development and UX/UI design to work together on common goals.

Azure Best Practices - Azure Advisor

While cloud provides lot of agility, flexibility and ease for creating and managing your resources, it can be very costly if its not managed properly. Azure Advisor helps you analyzing your configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized, actionable…

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.

Web Scraping with C#

Learn web scraping with C# with this step-by-step tutorial covering the must-known C# web-scraping tools and libraries.

Testing is not dead - Lee Hawkins

DDD by Night September Testing is not dead Lee Hawkins @therockertester I will explain what testing *really* is and why we can't automate everything. I'll also provide some tips for improving the testing skills of those not in specialized testing roles. …

To The Assembly - CoRecursive Podcast

How do CPUs work? How do compilers work? How does high-level code get translated into machine code? Today’s guest is Matt Godbolt and he knows the answers to these questions. How he became an expert in bare metal programming is an interesting story. Matt share…

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

I joined Stripe four years ago to make starting an Internet business easier, mostly by work on Stripe Atlas. This has been a series of adjustments for me: to working as an employee, to experiencing hypergrowth, to being closer to the Silicon Valley culture, an…