9 January 2021

27 links · Saturday

Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 2)

Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level.  Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular.…

Newsletter Week 1, 2021

Sergey .NET Continue to write about how to get started with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework, called Farmer. BlogsA Step by Step Guide to Logging in ASP.NET Core 5LinkedIn: EzzyLearning Twitter: @ezzylearning Integrating AdminLTE with ASP.NET CoreLinked…

efcore/EFCore.NamingConventions

Entity Framework Core plugin to apply naming conventions to table and column names (e.g. snake_case) - efcore/EFCore.NamingConventions

Meet The Workers Team Over Discord

The Cloudflare Workers team is excited to announce the opening of our Discord Channel!

Friday Five: Teams Public Preview, C# Tips, More!

Episode 9: Functional Programming in C# with Simon Painter Dan Clarke is an independent software developer specialising in .NET and Azure, and is interested in Docker, Kubernetes, TDD, and anything new and shiny! He runs the .NET Oxford user-group, blogs at ht…

safepassme

We check active directory passwords against public database breaches offline, in a fraction of a second. Give us a try! We are at hello-twitter@safepass.me

Code Maze Weekly #59 - Code Maze

New year – new resolutions. We might feel things are somewhat out of our control right now, but there are always some areas of life we can control. And that’s learning and self-improvement. So this week, we present you with a new batch of articles that can eas…

Processing RSS feeds with Repl.it

The other day I made a small web service with Repl.it that does a simple transformation on an RSS feed (source code). I created it mainly because of this excellent newsletter, which is a daily roundup of potentially interesting, non-commercial blog posts from …

How did Uber waste so much ad money?

There's been a litany of articles over the past year about Uber supposedly wasting $100 million a year on ads, so it's worth asking how this kind of stuff happens.

What I learned doing 125 public talks - Part I

Over the past 7 years, I gave over 125+ talks for 20 countries in front of over 50,000+ people. By any means, this doesn’t make me an expert in public speaking, but I had the opportunity to learn a few things that I’d love to share. I’ll spread the content bet…

The Tether Press and Bitcoin's Speculative Mania - Trolly McTrollface's Blog

Tether has become a plain old fiat central bank, issuing new USDTs against debt. USDTs are backed, but not by US dollars. They are backed by promises to make good on their debts by the receivers of newly minted USDTs. While it’s not fraudulent per se, the fact…

Crony Beliefs | Melting Asphalt

[Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent podcast Second Enumerations. —Ed.]

More drama on a forum, and a slew of new databases dumped

It looks like the threat actor known as ShinyHunters was active again.  It also looks like there was some drama about a sale of databases that was supposed to...