15 March 2021

45 links · Monday

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Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)

Building .NET Hybrid Apps with Blazor

WebView2 is Microsoft's new embedded web browser control, built on top oHybrid apps are native apps that use web technologies for the UI. In this session we'...

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JaxDug - Azure DevOps for .Net- Fall into the Pit of Success - Jeffrey Palermo

Game UI Database

The ultimate screen reference Tool for game interface designers. Explore over 500 games and 19,000 individual images, and filter by screen type, material, layout, texture, shapes, patterns, genre and more!

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? - Edu News | NASA/JPL Edu

Earlier this week, we received this question from a fan on Facebook who wondered how many decimals of the mathematical constant pi (π) NASA-JPL scientists and engineers use when making calculations:Does JPL only use 3.14 for its pi calculations? Or do you use …

Introducing PeachPie 1.0.0

PeachPie has been in development for a few years already. It is an ambitious project, so we set a few milestones before we felt comfortable releasing the official version 1.0.0. What is PeachPie? PeachPie is a development platform that allows developers to tre…

An Update on Toyota and Unintended Acceleration « Barr Code

In early 2011, I wrote a couple of blog posts (here and here) as well as a later article (here) describing my initial thoughts on skimming NASA’s official report on its analysis of Toyota’s electronic throttle control system. Half a year later, I was contacte…

Calculating Pi with Real Pies - Numberphile

Our Pi Playlist (more videos): http://bit.ly/PiPlaylistHow accurately can we calculate Pi using hundreds of REAL pies?More links & stuff in full description ...

.NET News Roundup - Week of Mar 8th, 2021

The last week was an eventful one for the .NET community, with the release of the second preview for .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, and EF Core 6. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 8th, 2021.

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MS Build: Things You Should Know About Project Files - .NET Oxford - January 2020

Show Recursion Show

We dig into recursion and learn that Michael is the weirdo, Joe gives a subtle jab, and Allen doesn't play well with others while we dig into recursion.

Living the "van life" as a developer

I want to start a little series of posts on living the van life as a developer! What is the van life, and what does it have to do with this blog? Van life essentially means living in a vehicle. The reason I talk about this here is that it’s part of what I like…

Notes on Inflation

This post is a largely a collection of quotes and some personal notes I took after reading Michael Burry’s (now deleted) tweets on “the impending inflation crisis” about to hit the world.

The Inverse Care Law

Socially disadvantaged people get less healthcare than socially advantaged people despite all the efforts to the contrary. Why is this? The Inverse Care Law forms the basis of a framework for getting some answers. But that just brings us to another question. W…