16 October 2020

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Episode 350 - Azure Time Series Insights

The data IoT devices provide are now considered a valuable resource for companies to make decisions and predictions. Diego Viso, a Principal PM Manager, discuss with us how Time Series Insights can be leveraged for real-time insights and large data analytics t…

Porn, Zen, and .vimrc

A story of my journey from over-configuring the dotfiles and vimrc to learning to love default settings.

On Managing People

The key to managing people is giving them ownership. • Instead of you planning the project, give it to the newbie. • Instead of you writing the code, let them write it. • Instead of you running the meeting, let them run it. Let them get all of the credit. A…

The only way to be productive

TLDR: Reading productivity books, articles will make you less productive I want to take a little bit of freedom when defining the word productivity. In self development I think people are talking about how much is done when refering to productivity. Which is d…

Thoughts on Improving Online Communities

Many months ago I picked up a fantastic book at a neighborhood flea market: “Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities” by Amy Jo Kim. Flipping…

Who (and Who Not) to Get Advice From? — Juan David Campolargo

I don’t take advice from family, teachers, nor counselors. Why would I? They only want what is best for me. That is why you shouldn’t take advice from those who love you. They are not really incentivized because they share the risks but not always the rewards…

How Social Media Divides Us

Introduction Last time, we discussed how Social Media brainwashes us by presenting us false information repeatedly, triggering evolutionary learning mechanisms, to get us to believe patently false …

| Ruling your NetworkMichele Coscia

When you’re studying complex systems, one of the most important questions you might have is: how will this system evolve in the future? If you’re modeling your system as a network — as I like to do in my spare time — this boils down to predicting the arrival o…

Decoding the Peloton (PeloMon, Part I)

From Voltages to "Cadence, Output, and Resistance" TL;DR - I’ve decoded (most of) the protocol that the Peloton bike uses to communicate with its head unit tablet and built a device,...

Karlův most - Stavba pilíře a klenebního pole ve 14. století

3D grafika a postprodukce: Tomáš Musílek Odborná spolupráce: Ing. Arch. Ondřej Šefců Grafická spolupráce: Mgr. Zdeněk Mazač Více informací o Karlově mostě naleznete na http://praha-archeologicka.cz/p/212 Digitální model "Karlův most - stavba pilíře a kleneb…

Code Maze Weekly #47 - Code Maze

The elephant in the room this time is the release of RC2 for .NET 5. This is the last step before the full release of .NET 5. We hope you’re as excited as we are because it’s going to be awesome. There are many features we look forward to, especially in Blazor…

Woodworking In America: Taryn Pratt | Popular Woodworking Magazine

We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Taryn Pratt, a full-time DBA and part-time woodworker from Arizona. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors?

Release v1.0.0-preview6 · microsoft/reverse-proxy

This release supports .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0.0 RC 2. See Getting Started. The Microsoft.ReverseProxy package is available on NuGet.org. Major changes and features: Add helper methods for query...

Binding Tools for Swift | The Xamarin Show

This week, James is joined by Steve Hawley, Engineer on Xamarin iOS, who talks about some brand new binding technology to take Swift libraries for iOS and turn them into beautiful C# libraries for your apps. **Show Links:** * [GitHub: Binding Tools for Swi…

Version 1.4.0 released

We are very proud to announce Nim version 1.4 after six months of continuous development! Other than version 1.0, this is probably the biggest Nim release yet and we’re very excited to release it!

How our network powers Cloudflare One

Cloudflare's network is architected to solve the problems that face every organization trying to grow and protect a global network. With Cloudflare One, we're extending the advantage of these decisions to your company's network to help you solve them too.

.NET Microservices with DAPR

Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient microservice applications that run on the cloud and edge. In this episode, Aman Bhardwaj joins Cecil to talk about the what DAPR types of problems Dapr is trying to …

Introducing Magic Firewall

Today we’re excited to announce Magic Firewall™, a network-level firewall delivered through Cloudflare to secure your enterprise. Magic Firewall covers your remote users, branch offices, data centers and cloud infrastructure.

40 milliseconds of latency that just would not go away

Have you ever tried to optimize a system but found it just would not get any faster than some seemingly arbitrary point? Did it seem like the stuff somehow had an agreement to where it would never deliver results to in less than X milliseconds, even if it …

kekyo/IL2C

IL2C - A translator for ECMA-335 CIL/MSIL to C language. - kekyo/IL2C

The future of .NET Standard | .NET Blog

Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I’m going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I’ll also cover the cases where you stil…

Structured binding in C++/WinRT: The key-value pair | The Old New Thing

Last time, we learned how to add structured binding support to your own types, and noted that the get functions do not have to return references. C++/WinRT has something similar to a std::pair: The IKeyValuePair<K, V>, which is used to represent a single entry…

PC and Mac with single Mouse and Keyboard Setup on Dual 4k Screens

A little while back I posted a couple of pictures of my new desk setup using both a Windows Laptop (a 2019 Dell XPS) and a Macbook Pro (2016) along with two 4k displays. I'm also using a single Logitech Mouse and Keyboard combination to control both machines a…

Some helpful extensions when dealing with types in .NET |

If you are writing reusable code, chances are high that you will write quite some code that deals with types, generics, and interfaces. Over the years, the collection of my helper extensions for that

MVVM Toolkit Preview 3 & The Journey of an API | PAX - Windows

In this post, we cover the journey of creating an easier to use API, how a .NET Native issue required a workaround, and how that ultimately proved to be a greater success!

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My SQL Server Toolbox

I get asked a lot about the tools I use at Stack Overflow to monitor and work with our SQL Servers. I figured it might be helpful to others to make the list public. I’ll also do my best to keep it updated as things change. The current list of both free and 3rd…

The Problem With Seraphine

I analyze the Seraphine and K/DA social media promotional campaign in attempt to understand what didn't sit right with folks about her. Support the creation of videos like this at: https://www.patreon.com/AOrlando

No More Mixed Messages About HTTPS

Update (April 6, 2020): Mixed image autoupgrading was originally scheduled for Chrome 81, but will be delayed until at least Chrome 84. Chec...

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ASP.NET Core Series: PWA's with Blazor

Progressive Web Applications (PWA) use modern browser APIs and capabilities to behave like a desktop app. Since Blazor WebAssembly is a standards-based client-side web app platform, developers have t

Performance Profiling | Database Tool

Does your app make database queries? Want to improve its performance? Profiler PM Esteban Herrera shows how to use the Database tool to collect and analyze information about individual queries. Learn

Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search

Google Search helps you find the melody that’s stuck in your head with machine learning technology.