30 October 2020

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Introducing VSCode Stories

I made stories for VSCode that way you can make fun coding stories and share them with your fellow developers. extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=benawad.stories code: https://github.com/benawad/vscode-stories #benawad #vscode --…

Goodbye IFTTT

On switching off of IFTTT to self-hosted and on-device automation tools

Use Azure Custom Vision to Repurpose the Lunar Rover

The Lunar rover has been instrumental in helping us advance our understanding of the Moon and our Universe, and in the new Netflix Original, Over the Moon, it makes an appearance when Fei Fei lands on

GitHub Codespaces

Want to see Microsoft's vision for cloud-powered development environments that enable developers to get up and running quickly and work from anywhere on any platform? Visual Studio PM Vix Ryan shows t

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To apply AI for good, think form extraction

Folks who want to use AI/ML for good generally think of things like building predictive models, but smart methods for extracting data from forms would do more for journalism, climate science, medicine, democracy etc. than almost any other application. Since Ma…

Carnation - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio - Carnation is a tool to help choose editor colors in Visual Studio. See the repository for more information: https://github.com/ryzngard/Carnation

ryzngard/Carnation

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

.NET Conf 2020

Join the .NET Conf 2020 free virtual event November 10-12 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!

Context on STM in Ruby

There’s a proposal to add Software Transactional Memory, or STM, to the Ruby programming language. This is part of a wider effort to add better support for concurrency and parallelism in Ruby, and in particular the idea of ractors. A concept has been proposed …

Goodbye IFTTT

On switching off of IFTTT to self-hosted and on-device automation tools

Here be dragons: advances in problems you didn’t even know you had

Here's something I bet you never think about, and for good reason: how are floating-point numbers rendered as text strings? This is a surprisingly tough problem, but it's been regarded as essentially solved since about 1990.Prior to Steele and White's…

Microsoft Night - .BLD() Tech Talks XXL

In November 2020, our 1st edition of the .BLD() Tech Talks XXL will take place! A fully digital and live tech event with international top-level speakers, made by developers, for developers! On Wednesday 18th of November, Scott Hunter, Director of Program Mana…

Unwrap the SERVFAIL

We recently released a new version of Cloudflare Resolver, which adds a piece of information called “Extended DNS Errors” (EDE) along with the response code under certain circumstances. This will be helpful in tracing DNS resolution errors and figure out what …

I Hate Coordinate Systems!

Apply this three-part mental model of geospatial datasets. Many common problems happen when one of these parts is missing or out of sync.

C# 9 The unknown goodies | Miguel Bernard's Blog

Discover all the hidden gems in C# 9 that nobody talks about. Module initializers simplified null check, covariant returns, and native sized integers

How Gitlab puts gRPC in the Real World

In this series we've presented the basics of what the gRPC specification is and how it works. In this installment, we will take a real-world look at how the Source Control Management Service GitLab adopted gRPC when it refactored its server-side architecture i…

Azure Logic Apps Running Anywhere – Runtime Deep Dive

For the recently released Azure Logic Apps (Preview) extension for Visual Studio Code, the Logic Apps team redesigned the Azure Logic Apps runtime architecture for portability and performance. This new design lets you locally build and run logic apps in Visual…

MockMechanics

MockMechanics is a program that allows the creation of complex and interactive mechanisms using only simple building blocks and a graphical and intuitive form of programming.

.NET Framework October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update for Windows 10 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004 | .NET Blog

Yesterday, we are releasing the October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. SQL Addressed an issue in System.Data.SqlClient where querying …

Why You Shouldn't Sell Your SaaS Business

After running a SaaS business for more than 5 years, I've concluded that it doesn't make sense to sell it. This article explain why.

Going deep

I recently stumbled across an over 5 year old comment on Hacker News about performance. Lots of people make the mistake of thinking there’s only two vectors you can go to improve performance, high or wide. High - throw hardware at the problem, on a single ma…

Secrets of the best product teams

I’ve been building digital products for the past sixteen years; as a founder, CEO, and CPO. In this post I cover the secrets that I’ve noticed in high performing product teams.

The Future Self Savings Method

How many months of freedom can you buy yourself? A different way to budget