VS Code Dev Team Eyes Long-Requested Testing Support -- Visual Studio Magazine
Of course, testing is possible in VS Code via numerous extensions, but Microsoft is seeking to spearhead a more structured, comprehensive approach.
Let's Crack Zodiac - Episode 5 - The 340 Is Solved!
On December 3rd, 2020, an international three-person team of codebreakers made a breakthrough with the Zodiac Killer's unsolved 340-character cipher.By Decem...
Making Vaccine - LessWrong
Back in December, I asked how hard it would be to make a vaccine for oneself. Several people pointed to radvac. It was a best-case scenario: an open-source vaccine design, made for self-experimenters, dead simple to make with readily-available materials, well-…
Mac utility Homebrew finally gets native Apple Silicon and M1 support
There aren't bottles for every package yet, but the work is in progress.
AutoHistory for EF Core - BuiltWithDot.Net
A plugin for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore to support automatically recording data changes history. Comes in handy when you want to create a log of data changes over time. Think blog post revisions, etc.
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast - Don't Get Caught With Your Drawbridge Down!
Don't Get Caught With Your Drawbridge Down!
The Elements of Computing Systems, Second Edition
A new and extensively revised edition of a popular textbook used in universities, coding boot camps, hacker clubs, and online courses. The best way to understand how computers work is to build one from scratch, and this textbook leads learners …
Gift Egwuenu (Gift Egwuenu)
Code Maze Weekly #63 - Code Maze
Not many technologies are exciting as soon as they come out. Blazor was and still is an exciting toy to play with, and we’re thrilled to see it grow and that people are adopting it steadily. So give it a chance. Or pick some of the awesome topics we’ve prepare…
FOSDEM 2021 - Schedule
Every year, FOSDEM hosts a wide variety of activities. This page gives an overview with links to further information about scheduled events. All times CET (UTC+1).
Turn off that camera during virtual meetings, environmental study says
It’s not just to hide clutter anymore – add “saving the planet” to the reasons you leave the camera off during your next virtual meeting.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font May Be Pretty Good If Your Granny Can't See Well
My grandmother approves of Atkinson Hyperlegible free font for her phone book printout
The .NET Docs Show - Using Source Generators for Fun (and Maybe Profit)
Tired of writing code? Community MVP Jason Bock joins the panel to show us how to automate ourselves out of a job!Featuring: Jason Bock (@jasonbock)#source-g...
Episode 69 - The Risks of Third Party Code With Niels Tanis
In this episode of The .NET Core Podcast we talked with Niels Tanis about some of the inherent risks with third party code
Bidirectional Streaming | gRPC in .NET 5
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ChapsasSubBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick and in this video...
3.0.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.0.0. The most significant changes since 2.7.0 are official Apple Silicon support and a new bottle format in formulae.
Building a social media platform without going bankrupt: Part X–Optimizing for whales
Unless I get good feedback / questions on the other posts in the series, this is likely to be the last post on the topic. I was trying to show what kind of s...
How do I get a foothold in the neutral apartment? | The Old New Thing
The neutral apartment is a mysterious beast. You cannot initialize a thread in the neutral apartment, because the neutral apartment isn’t tied to a thread. Instead, the neutral apartment takes over any thread it can find: If you are on an existing thread and c…
New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3,000 price tag
Plus, our analysis: How legit is this idea, anyway?
Dream Big: Three Months in at Elastic - Steve Gordon - Code with Steve
In this post, I share my thoughts on imposter syndrome, career development and my journey to starting work at Elastic.
Disqus, the dark commenting system
I'm explaining why Disqus is a great example for "if you're not paying for it, you become the product".
Nightingale REST API Client - BuiltWithDot.Net
I was inspired to build Nightingale after seeing a lack of full-fledged REST API clients on the Microsoft Store. Additionally, I realized that while other clients were incredibly powerful, they used nearly 500MB of memory even when performing simple HTTP reque…
The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years.
Wayne Goodrich was the producer for every keynote Steve gave after his return to Apple. Before that, Wayne helped him create presentations at NeXT and Pixar. He is writing a book about what it was …
A Free Hyperlegible Typeface from the Braille Institute
Atkinson Hyperlegible is a free typeface developed by the Braille Institute and Applied Design Works that makes text more readab
How hackers are finding creative ways to steal gift cards using artificial intelligence.
Hackers are finding extraordinary ways to obtain gift cards for stores of high demand using artificial intelligence and phone providers.
.NET App Developer Links - 2021-02-05
The latest news and resources for .NET app developers.
Helium Scraper - BuiltWithDot.Net
This is the third version of Helium Scraper, a web scraper that now uses CefSharp as a built in browser and can run many parallel off-screen browsers and uses a minimalist language, as well as ready-to-go wizards to configure extraction agents. It has a 10 day…
How to hire senior developers: Give them more autonomy
Let me ask you a question: How much value do you think your source code has?
Compiling DirectShow.Net for use in .NET 5
In a previous blog post, I wrote about how to access webcam properties from C# using DirectShow.Net. The last release of the library is version 2.1 from February 2010, with project files for Visual …
Here, I made a thing to save time building all projects in a solution
Compilers are complicated. They don't always behave the way you'd expect. For instance, if you have a resource that has the Copy to Output D...
Opening an Admin Windows Terminal from Visual Studio
Opening Windows Terminal from another application is a bit of a pain. In particular I wanted to open Windows Terminal as an External Tool from Visual Studio and found it wasn't as easy as referencing the `wt.exe` executable. Opening as an Administrator adds ad…
ConcurrentDictionaryExtensions.cs
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Fantasy Critic - BuiltWithDot.Net
Fantasy Critic is essentially fantasy football, for video games. A group of people form a league, and then create their own virtual video game “Publishers”. Each player then will assemble a roster of the games they believe will review the best. Similar to fant…
Performance Profiling - Introduction
If you are not sure what to do once you start experiencing performance issues ...
rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer
An experimental Rust compiler front-end for IDEs. Contribute to rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Google’s Dunant subsea cable is now ready for service | Google Cloud Blog
The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
Working with SSL Certificate in Azure App Service
This article shows you how to work with SSL certificates in Azure App Service. Last year I wrote a blog post on how to use Azure App Service managed certificates. If you’re using App service managed certificates, you don’t need to worry about the expiry, it wi…
Templated Controls are Awesome | The Xamarin Show
This week, James is joined again by Javier Suárez, Developer on Xamarin.Forms, who explains what control templates are, why they are awesome, and how you can create amazing things with them. You don't
The Great Suspender gets flagged for malware by Google Chrome
Users of The Great Suspender extension now see a message that flags it for containing malware. The popular extension was sold to new ownership last year and has been accused of adding malware in the past.
Oxfam Australia investigating suspected data incident | Media Oxfam Australia
Late last week, Oxfam Australia was alerted to a suspected data incident. Oxfam immediately launched an investigation and engaged market leading experts to assist in identifying whether data may have
Ideas That Created the Future
Classic papers by thinkers ranging from Aristotle and Leibniz to Norbert Wiener and Gordon Moore that chart the evolution of computer science. Ideas That Created the Future collects forty-six classic papers in computer scie…
Sharing Knowledge Online
Want to share your knowledge and experiences with others online? David Giard, host of the Technology and Friends and GCast channels on YouTube, shows you how to get started. Check out David's videos
Entity Framework Community Standup - Introducing MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj
MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj is a new open source project that allows you to build SQL Server Database Projects (.sqlproj) using the new SDK-style projects cross-plat...
Safia Abdalla · The ReadME Project
👋 I’m Safia, also known online as [@captainsafia](https://github.com/captainsafia). I’m a full-time software engineer at Microsoft, a writer, and an [open source maintainer](https://github.blog/201...