26 March 2021

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Microsoft Events

Explore the multitude of events Microsoft offers for technology leaders, developers and practitioners. We are passionate about providing the right event for everyone in the tech industry.

Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have

There's been a lot of hand-wringing over The Technical Interview lately. Many people realize that inverting a binary tree on a whiteboard has basically zero correlation to whether or not someone is actually a good software developer. The most effective program…

Practical Heart

Brian Aspey · Song · 2021

APT Encounters of the Third Kind

A few weeks ago an ordinary security assessment turned into an incident response whirlwind. It was definitely a first for me, and I was kindly granted permission to outline the events in this blog post. This investigation started scary but turned out be quite …

How to implement a hash table (in C)

An explanation of how to implement a simple hash table data structure, with code and examples in the C programming language.

Code Maze Weekly #70 - Code Maze

Issue #70 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out the articles we’ve selected for you this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Getting Started with the Roslyn APIs: Writing Code with Code [www.stevejgordon.co.uk] Roslyn is one of the less explored and niche areas …

Building a phone book: Part I

A couple of weeks ago I asked you to rate an interview question that we had sent to candidates. The idea is to build a persistent phone book, with the idea t...

Emoji under the hood

Detailed look into all the machinery involved in rendering Emoji

Introducing Super Bot Fight Mode

Beginning immediately, any Cloudflare user with a Pro or Business site can take new action against bots. We’ve added advanced features in the dashboard and some exciting updates to analytics.

Hammster/windows-terminal-shaders

(Hopefully) a small collection of terminal shaders - Hammster/windows-terminal-shaders

Duende Software Blog

We help companies using .NET to build identity and access control solutions for modern applications.

The Drivers Cooperative

We are a driver-owned ridehailing cooperative in New York City.

permission.site

Async Clipboard API

Polaris

It's another customer story - and on this podcast hear about an amazing app developed by Polaris that pairs with snowmobiles, motorcycles, off-road, and other powersports vehicles.

String.Concat Method (System)

Concatenates one or more instances of String, or the String representations of the values of one or more instances of Object.

Adjust, Save and Restore Webcam Properties With CamProps

In recent months, I wrote a few articles that hinted that I was developing a webcam-related utility (here, here, here and here). About two weeks ago, I released it to my colleagues who liked it and …

Human-Readable JavaScript: A Tale of Two Experts

JavaScript gives us many ways to do things, but deciding which way can be tricky. Laurie Barth gives us a story of two experts who solve this problem in different ways, giving some insight into how…

Choices in Desktop Development

The desktop is here to stay. Sam Basu reviews how you can take advantage of the latest in .NET technologies and still build the apps your customers demand.

Announcing Rust 1.51.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Steve Jobs Interview - 2/18/1981

An interview with Steve Jobs filmed on 2/18/1981 about the future of Apple, Computers, the Home & Personal computer markets, video games, and more.

Success Mysticism - Christopher Butler

Few things make me sadder than the now predictable moment at which a successful person creates a sellable mysticism out of their good luck and privilege.

Introducing: Funds for Open Source.

Helping companies invest in open source projects because we want open source creators to have a good livelihood and work sustainably, which is critical to the health of the whole ecosystem.

dodyg/practical-aspnetcore

Practical samples of ASP.NET Core 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, and 5.0 projects you can use. Readme contains explanations on all projects. - dodyg/practical-aspnetcore

You are sharing your downloads with your Antivirus Company

I recently have provided a customer with a link to a firewall image (using the Turris MOX router with a variant of OpenWRT) hosted on my own webserver. The image included keys material for an OpenVPN connection. The image file was in a hidden directory on my p…

The most requested features for online food delivery

My main occupation for the past few years has been building ecommerce platforms for large Food Delivery businesses. Unsurprisingly they usually request very similar functionality. What is surprising, is that there are no ecommerce Systems that offer those feat…