16 November 2020

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Web Wednesday

Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 3:00 PM: What is Web Wednesday?Web development can be challenging and sometimes might feel a little overwhelming. There are so many different technologies, emerging languages, and p

Miwa - Data and Applied Scientist on Azure

She's a self described introvert who enjoys chucking axes over the traditional gym visit. Miwa's bold curiosity and keen awareness leads to a pivotal career moment...and a powerful message! She travel

Secrets of a successful shut in

My bona fides: I’ve effectively been doing the “work from home” thing since 2007. There’s been times here and there where I visit customer sites, or have been traveling a lo…

The C Standard Library Is Not Dependency Free

Like any great systems programming language, it doesn’t take much of anything to get C up and running on a new platform. In fact, a minimal C “runtime” (typically called crt0) only consists of a short prelude that zeroes out the .bss section …

youtube-dl repository restored at GitHub

The GitHub repository for the youtube-dl utility, which is used to download video content from various web sites (including YouTube, thus the name), has been restored. As we reported in last week's edition, GitHub had taken the repository down due to a DMCA …

Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys

The Internet is a dangerous place in the best of times. Sometimes Internet engineers find ways to mitigate the worst of these threats, and sometimes they fail. Every now and then, however, a major …

GraphQL Schema stitching

With Schema stitching, developers can create a unified GraphQL schema from multiple underlying GraphQL APIs. This gives us the benefit of reducing multiple data queries for our data in a single reque

South Africa: All about accessibility

Recorded January 2020, at the Microsoft office in Johannesburg, South Africa In this episode of CodeStories, Seth joins Rory to learn about Accessibility tools, and tours the Microsoft Johannesburg of

github/dmca

Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent u...

scalablecory/NetworkToolkit

This project contains networking primitives for use with .NET. - scalablecory/NetworkToolkit

Terminal-Icons 0.2.0

PowerShell module to add file icons to terminal based on file extension

Exploring How Computers Work

A little exploration of some of the fundamentals of how computers work. Logic gates, binary, two's complement; all that good stuff! I see there’s some interest in getting access to the little simulation tool I made. It’s not in a very user friendly state at t…

When trusted relationships are formed, everyone wins!

Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how building trusted relationships resulted in an improved security posture and better solution for one of our customers.

Claims encryption for B2C tokens | Developer Support

Marius Rochon shares a sample which Provides Azure B2C JWT token confidentiality by encrypting selected claims prior to token issuance and providing support for their decryption by confidential clients for which these tokens were intended. Claims Encryption P…

Turing Tumble - Build Marble-Powered Computers

Turing Tumble is a revolutionary new game where players build marble-powered computers to solve logic puzzles. It’s fun, addicting, and while you’re at it, you discover how computers work.

nbeaver/why-linux-is-better

Objective reasons to prefer Linux to Windows. Contribute to nbeaver/why-linux-is-better development by creating an account on GitHub.

How to make SUBST mapping persistent across reboots?

Does Windows (XP or later) have a built-in way to create persitent drive mappings, like the ones SUBST creates? I found a 3rd party tool psubst. Is there a way to do it without 3rd party tools?

Big O Notation

Learn more about Big O Notation, a mathematical process that we can use to measure the performance and complexity of an algorithm.

Implement A Webhook Framework With ASP.NET Core

Let’s say we’re building a brand new HTTP API that supports webhooks, and we want the best for our ASP.NET consumers. We should document elements like endpoints, payloads, authentication, and responses our API expects from consumers. Documentation can be overw…

Get Git

This is the first in a series of posts about Git. Let’s start at the beginning as Humpty Dumpty so wisely advised Alice. What is Git? — Git is a version control system. That’s one…

How much do statins prolong life? - Sebastian Rushworth M.D.

How much longer can you expect to live if you take a statin? This article gives a precise answer, to within days, based on data from 90,000+ patients.

4 Different Perspectives to Solve Problems

This post is about different perspectives. We take an example of a problem and solve it using 4 different perspectives, highlighting the importance of different perspectives.

A Hero – maciek.blog

A way to gain influence is to accept personal risk for the benefit of a group. I.e. to become a hero.

DevOps and Ransomware

Mr. Bezos. I’m all in favor of a clean fulfillment center, but tell me: Why do you sweep? Why do you not instead eliminate the source of dirt? - Unknown “insultant” Does DevOps pass the “so what?” test? When you start to follow the history of DevOps from Agil…

Why Everyone Should Learn To Write

Do you hate writing? Me too. I am not talking about tweets or IG posts. I’m talking about 500 word long articles and essays. Most of us don’t like writing them. They take too much time …

How to have a creative partnership at work

In a lot of work contexts, forming a strong operational working relationship with people is sufficient to get on with things. You know what they're up to, they know what you're up to, but you're mostly individuals working on separate parts of the puzzle, solvi…