8 April 2021

57 links · Thursday

Introducing Visual Studio Administrator Updates | Visual Studio Blog

Updates to Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 are now available through the Microsoft Catalog and WSUS. Enterprises can use Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM) to deploy these updates throughout their organization.

Home-Built STM

Scan Head STM Tips Vibration Isolation Electronics Software Scans Image Gallery Useful Links This project is my attempt to build a low-cost scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of atomic res…

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Hanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers. A weekly commute-time podcast that promotes fresh technology and fresh voices. Talk and Tech for Developers, Life-long Learners, and Technologists.

Achievement is Discontinuous

To this date, schema-dts is the only side-project I have that achieved better-than-moderate success. It took several hours between the time I had the idea for…

How To Make Your Zoom Meetings Not Suck — Chris Clearfield

"I am so done with Zoom." –Everyone in 2021 Man, aren't we all. Kids, parents, teachers. Zoom calls can be really fun. They can be energizing and creative. But they can also be terrible. Meetings full of participants where only a few people talk the whole t…

Don't fall for quantum hype

Check out the physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and support this channel by going to https://brilliant.org/Sabine/ where you can cre...

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 3 | ASP.NET Blog

.NET 6 Preview 3 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core. Here’s what’s new in this preview release: Smaller SignalR, Blazor Server, and MessagePack scripts Enable Redis profiling sessions HTTP/3 endpoint TLS configuration Ini…

Windows Insider Program

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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 3 | .NET Blog

Today, we are delighted to release .NET 6 Preview 3. This release is dedicated almost entirely to low-level performance features. These are the types of improvements that many folks don’t necessarily always fully appreciate, but they help a lot for many apps.

Release ILSpy 7.0 RC1 · icsharpcode/ILSpy

General Dark mode! (big thank you to @tom-englert in #2347) Building ILSpy for .NET 5 is now possible (see multitargeting.props.template) Added inline display of CustomDebugInformation table entri...

sepfy/pear

WebRTC Library for IoT/Embedded Device using C. Contribute to sepfy/pear development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Real Book - 99% Invisible

Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos…

C++ coroutines: Awaiting the simple_task | The Old New Thing

Last time, we accepted the parameter passed to co_return and stored it into our promise. This time, we’ll deal with the consumption side and wait for the answer to appear. // ⟦awaiter support methods⟧ ≔ bool client_await_ready() { assert(m_wa…

Dynamic URL Rewriting at the edge with Cloudflare

Today we are announcing the immediate availability of Transform Rules for all Cloudflare plans. Transform Rules provide Cloudflare administrators with the ability to create URL rewrite rules.

.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.

GraphQL on Azure: Part 6 - Subscriptions With SignalR

In our exploration of how to run GraphQL on Azure, we’ve looked at the two most common aspects of a GraphQL server, queries and mutations, so we can get data and store data. Today, we’re going to look at the third piece of the puzzle, subscriptions. What are G…

Building Your First GitHub Action | Azure DevOps Blog

This is a guest post from one of our friends at GitHub, John Bohannon. Welcome John! Introduction Hello from the friendly octocats at GitHub! By now, you might have used GitHub Actions for automation, CI/CD, and more – and you know it’s powered by thousands of…

Bitemporal History

Bitemporal history has two dimensions: actual and record, allowing us to comprehend retroactive changes.

Stored Procedure in Entity Framework Core Migrations

SQL Server stored procedure is a set of SQL statements grouped as a logical unit and stored in the database. The stored procedure can accepts input parameters and executes the T-SQL statements in the procedure, can return the result. If you’re using Entity Fra…

Bitcoin could break everything

Financial populism and loose monetary policy could combine to create the perfect storm as the US economy attempts to recover from the…

Dynamicland

incubating a humane dynamic medium

Jonathon Dixon: Why I joined Cloudflare

I’m excited to announce that on March 1st, I joined Cloudflare as Vice President and GM, Asia Pacific (including Japan and Greater China) to help build and expand Cloudflare’s growing customer and partner base and presence in the region.

WTF are these security chips?

There seem to be a few interesting trends in “security via hardware” these days. The first trend is root-of-trust chips. Integrated TPM-like chips that are like crypto Swiss Army knives as they offer many functionalities out of the box. They resemble discrete…