5 January 2021

52 links · Tuesday

.NET Conf 2020 in a Nutshell

The event will show case the technology stack that was demonstrated during .NET Conf 2020. It would include, C# 9.0, EF Core 5.0, Blazor, Azure and Microserv...

Google Phases out Android Things

Google recently announced phasing out its Android Things IoT platform. New projects will not be accepted after January 5, 2021, and the Android Things console will be turned down for all projects in 2022.

Reviewing code isn’t a binary operation

I want to comment on the following tweet:A rather banal “thought experiment:”What if the only code we could review was tests and interface definitions?What w...

Cory Doctorow: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor

As I write this in mid-November 2020, there’s quite a stir over the new version of Apple’s Mac OS, the operating system that runs on its laptops. For more than a year, Apple has engaged…

My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

Google's December 2020 Core Update drove this website's traffic to new highs, then it fell to zero.

Concurrent Mode in React

Learn about concurrent mode in React, and how this set of features will help to create more fluid and responsive applications.

Developing Destkop applications with .NET 5.0

We know that .NET 5.0 makes it possible to develop WPF and Windows Forms applications. However, at the time of writing, Visual Studio templates haven’t been updated to new target framework: d…

Adam Honse / OpenRGB

Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software. Supports Windows and Linux. ASUS, ASRock, Corsair, G.Skill, Gigabyte, HyperX, MSI, Razer, ThermalTake, and more...

How To Make Seamless Patterns

Sometimes, when we make seamless patterns out of several objects, we need to deal with the situations where the objects are on the borders. Usually we create copies of the objects and place them at proper positions to make the tiling work with no s…

Why Grothendieck would say machine learning is mostly overfitting

Introduction Grothendieck is, by far, the single most influential mathematician of the 20th century. He solved long standing mathematical problems, created whole new fields of human thought, and th…

Looks vs Results

Making things look nice can take a long time, either due to lack of resources or abundance of opinions. This could delay launches, frustrate people, and waste precious energy. Those are high costs for startups or companies hoping to move fast.

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: introduction

I’m interested in GUI applications since I’ve starting coding. Building a back-end app that manages teraflops of operations is an impressive engineering feat. But the feedback cycle when developing a desktop app is much shorter. That makes it, at least for me,…

Taiwan's amazing bike-sharing system

YouBike (or Ubike) is my first choice of transportation when it comes to moving around the city of Taipei. I largely prefer it over taking the subway, bus, or taxi. It is affordable, well maintained, comfortable, at waking distance reach from anywhere, and the…

How I Use My iPad For Work - Anthony Diké

I use an iPad Pro as my main work machine. It's great, but it's way too fun. Here are a few pro tips I've learned on how to not get distracted if you also use your iPad for work.

What I Learnt Reading 80 Articles On Product Validation

I created a site called validationguide.com (using Ghost) to host all this research. Upon researching the topic, I realized something, Almost all product validation methods for successful bootstrapped companies are the same...