17 February 2021

61 links · Wednesday

Decoding Mars 2020 – Daniel Estévez

Mars 2020, NASA’s latest mission to Mars, was launched a couple weeks ago. However, with all the Tianwen-1 work down the pipeline, until now I haven’t had time to dedicate an appropriate post to this mission (though I showed some sneak peek on Twitter). This m…

A primer on code generation in Cranelift

Cranelift is a code generator written in the Rust programming language that aims to be a fast code generator, which outputs machine code that runs at reasonable speeds. The Cranelift compilation model consists in compiling functions one by one, holding extra i…

Why DoorDash Cannot Deliver Your Order Properly

So I have requested a food delivery from DoorDash, and it happened that my food still hadn’t been picked up yet. I opened my DoorDash app at 12:30 pm today, and it’s still being prepared until now at 7:50 pm. During the approximately 8 hours waiting, I have tr…

Introducing Axelar Network

In the last few posts (I, II) we looked at the existing interoperability landscape and the properties needed from scalable cross-chain…

Publishers, curation and algorithms

Publishers take two risks to bring new ideas to the world. (And I’m talking about any middleperson–a gallerist, a TV network, a movie studio, a label–they’re all publishers)…

You probably don’t need a micro-frontend

Micro-frontends is a relatively new architectural style for building web-based applications, which as the name suggests, is an extension of the popular microservices pattern. In this blog post I argue that this is a pattern you might not need!

Uno Platform - BuiltWithDot.Net

The Uno Platform is an Universal Windows Platform Bridge to allow UWP based code to run on iOS, Android, and WebAssembly. It provides the full definitions of the UWP Spring Creators Update (17134), and the implementation of growing number parts of the UWP API,…

Go 1.16 is released - The Go Blog

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

Release 1.0.0-preview9 · microsoft/reverse-proxy

This release supports .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0. See Getting Started. The Microsoft.ReverseProxy packages are available on NuGet.org. Major changes and features: We started publishing a preview o...

B2Emulator - BuiltWithDot.Net

An emulator for the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage service. The goal of the project is to mimic the B2 API to provide a tool that can be used to test applications built to use B2. .NET Core dependency injection is used to enable different providers (in memory, fil…

Life, part 38

Here we go again! Fellow BASIC enthusiast Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood, of Stack Overflow and Discourse fame, has started a project to translate the programs in the 1978 classic BASIC Co…

Deploying Orleans Apps to Kubernetes

Microsoft Orleans is a framework that helps you build distributed applications that you can host almost anywhere that .NET runs. In this episode, Reuben Bond from the Orleans team comes on to show Cec

graydon2 | always bet on text

I figured I should just post this somewhere so I can make future reference to how I feel about the matter, anytime someone asks me about such-and-such video, 3D, game or "dynamic" multimedia system. Don't get me wrong, I like me some illustrations, photos, mov…

2021 TIME100 Next: Kizzmekia Corbett

Find out why Kizzmekia Corbett is on this year’s TIME100 Next list

gitattributes.io - BuiltWithDot.Net

gitattributes.io website was inspired by the https://www.gitignore.io/ project. Easily create new .gitattribute files. The web provides easy to use API. It's a small ASP.NET Core web app which can be used to learn basics about .NET Core development.

gitignore.io

Create useful .gitignore files for your project

MailBody - BuiltWithDot.Net

MailBody is a library for generating transactional html emails by using a fluent interface. It allows developers to quickly create transactional html e-mail, straight from code, without messing with html and inline css styles. By default it contains a basic ht…

davidfowl/DotNetCodingPatterns

A collection of coding patterns in no particular order - davidfowl/DotNetCodingPatterns

Azure Durable Functions - Support Caller - Azure Greg

I wrote an Azure Durable function which makes a phone call to out of hours support engineers when an alert is raised within their production Azure environment, and I wanted to talk about how I did it and what I used. When an alert is raised with the customers …

Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow

Over the last ~9 years I've spent way too much time answering questions on stack overflow. I don't know why. I want to say it's because I like helping people. It's certainly not for "internet points". In fact I despise the gamification on Stack Overflow so muc…

Sjoelbak / Dutch Shuffleboard for iOS - BuiltWithDot.Net

For years I have wanted to develop games as a hobby but never got a project to a finished state. This time I choose a limited scope fun game. And now it is done and on the App Store. Its the classic dutch game Sjoelen made for iOS It is made in c# with …

esbuild - FAQ

This is a collection of common questions about esbuild. You can also ask questions on the GitHub issue tracker.