"Luck Surface Area" is a turn of phrase that popped out my mouth during a discussion episode of TechZing a few months back and is something I've been meaning to write about ever since but never got around to actually doing. However, thanks to Lance Jones who r…
Ange Albertini and Stefan Kölbl discuss how new research from Google, the University of Haifa and Amazon is exploiting authenticated encryption to make a PDF decrypt into... a different PDF. And much more.
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Simply manage your time, tasks and invoicing with Remotime! I was managing my tasks, time and invoicing in three different systems, and it was particularly painful come time to generate an invoice every month in order to get paid. Now with Remotime, I can …
There's been enough time for the dust to settle and for Robinhood's actual reason for halting trades to come out. But the question of why only buys and not sells has not really been answered in detail, and that's mainly because it's a pain-in-the-ass and delve…
GoF Design Patterns with "Real-World" examples involving Food-Related Businesses and mock dependencies - wesdoyle/design-patterns-explained-with-food
This app is designed for the citizens of cardiff city. Its a way for the users to interact with the council 24/7, and helps lower demand on more manual processes i.e. call centre. With the ‘Cardiff Gov’ app your reports are automatically routed to the righ…
Hi all, At 2021-01-29 at 21:35 UTC Google suspended Element from the Play Store without warning or notification. We submitted an appeal asking for clarification at 23:18, and at 05:31 received a generic update from the Google Play Policy team citing that the …
I provide a deeper-dive on the tech stack I like to use in 2021. It is simple, easy to work with, and allows you to grow out of it when the time comes. Updated for 2021!
My mission is to help ASP.NET web developers be much much more productive, by giving them tools and techniques to focus on their features, and minimise all the other frustrations that come with modern web application development. I want to put the fun back …
What is “Web Atoms”? Web Atoms is an advanced MVVM JavaScript framework for Xamarin.Forms and Web. What it does It allows you to write Xamarin.Forms app in TypeScript (transpiled to JavaScript) You can write your Views in TSX and ViewModels in TypeScript…
Go back to the 1990's via this nostalgic TV simulator and relive the original ads, music videos, movie trailers, shows and more!
ESE is an embedded / ISAM-based database engine, that provides rudimentary table and indexed access. However the library provides many other strongly layered and and thus reusable sub-facilities as...
This project was built to help make submitting HTTP requests from a terminal easy for a human to use. https is a global .net core tool that submits HTTP requests using simple arguments and stdin.
Dave tracks down the original developer responsible for the very first Windows Bluescreen, plus how to make your machine Bluescreen in other colors.How to sh...
Lynn Conway is a famed pioneer of microelectronics chip design. Her innovations during the 1970's at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) have impacted chip design worldwide. Many high-tech companies and computing methods have foundations in her work.
Researchers find that afternoon snoozes may help your brain function, but not all naps were created equal.
All Americans are affected by rising political polarization, whether because of a gridlocked Congress or antagonistic holiday dinners. People believe that facts are essential for earning the respect of political adversaries, but our research shows that this be…
You can use GitHub Security Advisories to privately discuss, fix, and publish information about security vulnerabilities in your repository.
Microsoft has for the past years done a great job at hardening the Windows lockscreen, but after Jonas published CVE-2020-1398, I put effort into weaponizing an old bug I had found in Windows Touch devices.
The principle of absolute freedom of speech has embedded in it a basic premise that words do not inherently mean anything. This wasn’t obvious to me and felt surprising, in the this-must-be-wrong way, when I noticed it. But if we agree that there exist things …
As I look back over what’s almost a decade in software development, there are some things I wish I’d started doing sooner. This is the advice I’d give my younger self, who has just landed their first professional software development job.
In recent months variants of SARS-CoV-2 have been detected that are unusual in that they have many more genome mutations than have been detected previously.
Stories are powerful, and they rule our world. This post explores how we’re always telling ourselves a story, and how choosing the right story has long term, surprising implications.