18 February 2021

50 links · Thursday

The Cyber Tap Podcast

Join Mat and Mike from cyberTAP at Purdue University for a fun and informative cybersecurity discussion.

Dutch Roman-era bike tour app (iOS) - BuiltWithDot.Net

Luxe achter de Limes is an educational app that takes the user on a gps guided bike tour along the many Roman settlement sites in the Netherlands. Using geo-fencing, the app alerts the user to the possibility of interesting virtual artifacts buried in the grou…

Introducing: Smarter Tiered Cache Topology Generation

Announcing a fundamental improvement to Argo Tiered Cache we’re calling Smart Tiered Cache Topology. When enabled, Argo Tiered Cache will now dynamically select the single best upper tier for each of your website’s origins while providing tiered cache analytic…

.NET Conf: Focus on Windows

.NET Marketing Manager Beth Massi previews .NET Conf: Focus on Windows, a free livestream event focusing on how to move your Windows desktop apps forward to .NET 5. Come join us Feb 25, 2021. Check o

Wyam static content generator - BuiltWithDot.Net

Wyam is a simple to use, highly modular, and extremely configurable static content generator that can be used to generate websites, produce documentation, create ebooks, and much more. Since everything is configured by chaining together flexible modules (that …

Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software

Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security Team Memory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead ...

The Need to Remove Bad Management

I’ve talked a lot recently about bad management as a root cause of poor infrastructure, especially on Twitter. The idea, channeled through Richard Mlynarik, is that the main barrier to good U…

Modeling temporal data with RavenDB

We got an interesting modeling question from a customer: “What is the optimal manner to represent time sensitive information in RavenDB?” The initial thought...

The Fantasy of Opting Out

Those who know about us have power over us. Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon.

How This Ends - AVC

We are in the middle of one of the great asset bubbles of modern times. It has been brought on by the easy money policies of central banks around the world aimed at weathering the global Covid 19 pandemic. Interest rates are near zero or negative in most devel…

My Expenditures - BuiltWithDot.Net

My Expenditures is an application which provides a simple and unique approach to the problem of managing your expenses and incomes. And Optimizing your way of spending your money. Also, by analyzing your expenses and incomes, it will provide statistics on how …

elixir-nx/nx

Numerical Elixir and Elixir XLA bindings for CPU/GPU/TPU - elixir-nx/nx

Calabonga Blog - BuiltWithDot.Net

This is a blog with Dependency Container Autofac, AutoMapper, Repositories, Unit of Work and other technics and patterns. The version of the blog is 4. In the articles you can use syntax highlighting and picture uploading.

Tip 305 - How to automatically manage Azure Blobs lifecycles

In Azure Blob Storage (opens new window), you pay for the storage that blobs take up and the tier that they are stored in. For instance, blobs that are stored in the Hot tier (opens new window) are the most expensive and can be accessed directly. And blobs in …

Hello, bot! Conversational AI on Microsoft Platform

During the pandemic, we all found ourselves in isolation, and relying more and more on effective electronic means of communication. The amount of digital conversations increased dramatically, and we need to rely on bots to help us handle some of those conversa…

Starlink

SpaceX is developing a low latency, broadband internet system to meet the needs of consumers across the globe. Enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, Starlink will provide fast, reliable internet to populations with little or no connectivity…

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Humanizer - BuiltWithDot.Net

Humanizer meets all your .NET needs for manipulating and displaying strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities. It's a great tool to make the interface of your app more approachable and, well, more human.

Troy Hunt - Lessons From 10 Billion Breached Records

Security flaws, hackers and data breaches are the new normal. It’s not just those of us in the industry facing these foes every single day, it’s everyone. Whether you’re online or offline, you simply cannot exist today without your personal information be...

Objective or Biased

An exclusive data analysis by BR (Bavarian Broadcasting) data journalists shows that an AI for personality assessment can be swayed by appearances. This might perpetuate stereotypes

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