12 October 2020

65 links · Monday

The Cycle of Life

Why life gives you lemons just when you think you’ve got it figured out 🍋

Why we don't prepare enough for things we want - JFJ

It takes time for things to work. Our plans have delays we, many times, cannot see. In this article I'll explore this, how it affects us and a humble proposal on how to deal with the invisible time required for plans to kick in.

Microsoft Identity Platform which OAuth flow should I use? | Developer Support

Nicola Delfino takes a look at Microsoft Identity Platform and explores the question, “which OAuth flow should I use?” OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an authentication protocol built on OAuth 2.0 that you can use to securely sign in a user to an application.

The art of oatmeal

Instead of following your small set of passions, try to broaden them a little bit first.

Window Activation Headaches in WPF

Ran into a problem with properly activating a WPF when launching from Explorer and indirectly trying to activate an already running instance 'from within itself'. It seems simple, but windows focus-stealing restrictions can cause problems with actually getting…

Stages of self-development

In bodybuilding and strength training, we understand the differences between beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes.

Differential Analyzer

The differential analyzer was an analog computer invented between 1928 and 1931 by Vannevar Bush, then a professor of engineering at MIT. The machine was built to solve differential equations, which are often used in engineering and phy…

Will Remote Compensation Be Tied To Location In The Future?

If someone is a fully remote worker, should their pay be tied to local market rates for their position? What does the trend towards remote work entail for the future of remote worker compensation? Find out in this post!

C# Language Highlights: Default Literal Expressions

In this quick video, Maira and Kendra will teach us about default literal expressions in .NET in C#. The tuples feature provides concise syntax to group multiple data elements in a lightweight data structure. To learn more about other C# features, head over to…

Musings on relationship

On 15th September 2020, I have been married to Keerthi for two years. We have known each other from our college and have been together ever since. I thought I would take some time to reflect on our…

Introducing Cloudflare One

Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.

BinomialLLC/bc7e

Binomial's fast high quality full-featured SIMD BC7 encoder. - BinomialLLC/bc7e

chriswalz/bit

Bit is a modern Git CLI. Contribute to chriswalz/bit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Blazor WebAssembly : Twitter Authentication - EP13

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What is Node.js and why you should learn it [1 of 26]

Discover what Node.js is all about and why it can be an asset to your tech porfolio. Watch the complete series to begin your Node.js developer journey!Full "Intro to Node.js" course on Micro

world smallest office suite

Let's build a tiny browser-based office suite - a text editor, a speadsheet, a drawing app and a presentation maker - all in four lines of code.

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Life, part 37

All right, let’s finish this thing off and finally answer the question that I’ve been asking for a while: are there any Life patterns that have unbounded quadratic growth? (Code for thi…

The Ideal Auction - Numberphile

Preston McAfee is the chief economist at Microsoft. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Benford's Law: https://youtu.be/XXjlR2OK1kM Preston McAfee: http://www.mcafee.cc Animation by Pete McPartlan Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical …

In 1979, some software company in Bellevue was hiring | The Old New Thing

I’m guessing that my colleague Chad Beeder had some time on his hands, because he discovered that the Seattle Public Library has searchable archives of the Seattle Times going back to 1895. The earliest mention of Microsoft was a classified ad from October 10,

Blazor in Action is now available on MEAP

I've been working really hard over the past few months on Blazor in Action and I'm pleased to announce that the book is now available via Manning's Early Access Program (MEAP).

223: How App Updates Work

How to app updates work, what do you need to know, migrate, and hook into? Or do you need to at all?

mackron/vkbind

Single file Vulkan API loader. Contribute to mackron/vkbind development by creating an account on GitHub.

PR Tracker for .NET projects

We are celebrating valid PRs of any kind, from documentations to aesthetics to, of course, code in any .NET open source project.

Web “Sessions” in Private Mode

I’ve written about Private Browsing Mode a lot previously, and I’ve written a bit about the behavior of “Session restore” previously, but one topic I haven’t covered i…

ryzngard/DotNot

Contribute to ryzngard/DotNot development by creating an account on GitHub.