1 April 2021

60 links · Thursday

On Identity: Being and Becoming – Karan Chawla

How do we talk about who we are if we are constantly in the state of becoming something else? Does continuing to be the same person involve becoming radically different?

signed char lotte

“signed char lotte” is a computer program written by Brian Westley and the winner of the “Best Layout” award in the 1990 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. The cleverness of the text is staggering. Superficially it reads as an epistolary exchange between…

The war without end: Mac vs. PC

Yikes! Intel has launched a new anti-Mac campaign. The nerve of those people—they signed Apple’s “I’m a Mac” guy to attack his former employer. This is war!

The compiler will optimize that away

A lot of programmers believe that compilers are magic black boxes in which you put your messy code in and get a nice optimized binary out. The hallway philosophers will often start a debate on which language features or compiler flags to use in order to captur…

Y Combinator and Equity Theft

This month, I interviewed Fred, who was the third person at a Y Combinator startup and had a very negative experience, including basically having his equity stolen out from under him. I don’t…

Autism challenges on the workplace (2021, 2/5) - A disability of trust

Our next step in this year’s Autism Awareness Week series is an exceirpt from, and commentary on, Episode 10 of Uniquely Human: The Podcast. In this episode, Barry Prizant (author of Uniquely Human: the book) and Dave Finch discuss how autism is related to the…

dotnet/csharplang

The official repo for the design of the C# programming language - dotnet/csharplang

Swappers

THORChain's value proposition for Swappers.

Page Remote Validation in ASP.NET Core Identity

This article will discuss about implementing Page Remote validation in ASP.NET Core Identity. ASP.NET Core Identity is a membership system that adds login functionality to ASP.NET Core apps. As you might know, in ASP.NET Core when you’re using ASP.NET Core Ide…

Pro1 X - F(x)tec

DESIGNDimensions: 154 x 73.6 x 13.98 mmWeight: 243 grams

Tracing Paper

A brief history of the secret plan to track every printed page.

.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.

REST APIs for Microservices? Beware!

Are you developing a Microservices Architecture with REST APIs? Before you go down that road, here are some pitfalls you will run up against.

Update to January 2021 Account Notification

As we informed you on January 11, we were the victim of a cybersecurity incident that involved unauthorized access to our IT systems. Given the reporting by Brian Krebs, there is newfound interest and attention in this matter, and we would like to provide our …