27 January 2021

67 links · Wednesday

OSC mixer control in C#

In some senses, this is a follow on from my post on VISCA camera control in C#. It’s about another piece of hardware I’ve bought for my local church, and which I want to control via sof…

Using AzureAD B2C for authenticating users

Azure AD B2C enables your applications to authenticate to social accounts and enterprise accounts using open standard protocols. In this episode, Christos is joined by Senior PM,Christer Ljung, who gi

Ascend | Accelerating Data Engineering with Azure

This is not yet another typical data pipeline automation story. It's a story about a company simplifying Data Engineers' lives. Ascend does it by providing a Unified Data Engineering Platform. Sheel C

LZ4 - Extremely fast compression

This benchmark simulates simple "static content transfer" scenario such as OS Kernel compression or video game's static assets (text/images/tables/scripts/etc) which loading from Flash Memory / HDD / SSD.

Quick Fixes

How many times — when you’ve encountered a metaphorical system on fire– decided you’d implement a temporary ‘quick fix’ that you’ll come back to later?How …

Dockerfile

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

How to build a personal finance app using Azure

AI allows you to deliver breakthrough experiences in your apps. With Azure Cognitive Services, you can easily customize and deploy the same AI models that power Microsoft’s products, such as Xbox and Bing, using the tools and languages of your choice. In this …

Idempotent Receiver

Identify requests from clients uniquely so they can ignore duplicate requests when client retries

Episode 10: F# and Functional Programming

In this group episode I was joined by Scott Wlaschin, Isaac Abraham, and Ian Russell - to talk all about F#! This is .NET’s functional programming language, and we discussed functional programming, and the benefits of using a functional programming language li…

Monsters Weekly 196 - Visual Studio Code Snippets

Snippets let you build out small, expressive, macros to rapidly add content to your files in Visual Studio Code. In this video we’ll cover how to add your own snippets for your project.

Using HTMX with ASP.NET Core: Introduction

Often we only want to add a little bit of interactivity to web pages without creating to a full-blown Blazor app or SPA. In this post, I will introduce you to HTMX, an alternative to these technologies.

leahneukirchen/nq

Unix command line queue utility. Contribute to leahneukirchen/nq development by creating an account on GitHub.

Load balancing and its different types - Wisdom Geek

Load balancing refers to effectively distributing traffic load across multiple servers to build highly available applications. Let us explore its various types.

Bill Hill - There is only one space after a period

Are you a one spacer or a two spacer? Bill Hill gives his opinion on why you only put one space after a period. This video was shot in 2004. We will miss you, Bill. Thank you for changing the world fo

Introducing the Xamarin Community Toolkit

The Xamarin Community Toolkit is a collection of Animations, Behaviors, Converters, Effects and even controls for mobile development with Xamarin.Forms. In this episode, I have Javier on from the Xama

Why a paid Twitter won't work

Twitter has bought a newsletter platform called Revue. Revue’s business model was provisions of paid newsletters and premium features. After the acquisition, the provision has now been lowered and the premium features made free.

Federated development and federated forges – Loïc Dachary

I’m very new federation. Over the years I heard rumors that it was good without understanding why and how. I ran a mastodon instance for a few years but did not use it much: I’m a developer and not much of a microblogger (reading or writing). Beginning of last…

Twitter 'Industry' Bullshit

Here’s a trend I’m seeing on Twitter recently. These kind of “influencer” guys posting tweetstorms that get thousands of likes and RTs… Part of me feels jealous. I spend a lot of time on Twitter and try to share valuable things, but I don’t have results like …

The Spaghetti Code Conjecture

Turing machine programs are sometimes represented as directed graphs. The vertices of the graph are the program’s states and the edges are transitions between states. The program’s print and shift instructions are relegated to being labels for the edges. Here’…

Was Social Media a Mistake?

Was Social Media a Mistake? - Christine Dodrill's Blog

Working fewer hours and getting more done – Up There They Dev

At the start of December, I switched jobs to a new games company. While I really enjoyed being a lead programmer at my previous company, I found it difficult to combine both my leadership and programming responsibilities. I ended up feeling like I wasn’t doing…

Deep Dive into Many-to-Many: A Tour of EF Core 5.0 pt. 2

On the surface many-to-many in EF6 and EF Core look very similar. However, under the covers the design in EF Core 5.0 is much more flexible and powerful In this episode, Arthur Vickers returns to chat

Wes Kao — How to instantly show your value

I’ve compiled my favorite ways to convey your product’s value prop. These apply to products and brands, but feel free to apply this to people too. These work for job interviews, selling yourself as a consultant, etc.

Saasify Key Takeaways

Personal site of Travis Fischer aka Transitive Bullshit

Product Management in Saas B2B Enterprise is easy

I've already described the differences between Saas B2B SMB and Saas B2B Enterprise. But to summarize, B2B Enterprise is when you customers buy you for your vision and your solutions and B2B SMB is when people buy you for your features. As a result B2B Enterpr…