22 April 2021

55 links · Thursday

Conversation about crossgen2 | .NET Blog

Crossgen2 is an exciting new platform addition and part of the .NET 6 release. It is a new tool that enables both generating and optimizing code in a new way. The crossgen2 project is a significant effort, and is the focus of multiple engineers.

Semgrep

Semgrep is an open-source tool for lightweight static analysis using a familiar syntax

My New Setup - Road to the Valhalla

It’s been a long time since I wrote something in the blog. A lot of things happened since my last blogpost. One of the interesting things that I’ve been into is working on my new setup. This post is the first of a series of articles about my new setup. I’ll sh…

We need to talk about your Q3 roadmap

As people complete their vaccination schedule, as the world around us continues to burn, and as the product roadmap chugs along, something’s gotta give. And I think it’s going to be your feature plans—because the humans behind them need time to recuperate.

Month 6, Day 1: Fridge still off (Happy Earth Day)

Today marks the first day of my sixth month with my fridge unplugged. My past two months’ electrical charges from Con Ed were $1.70. I used about two percent the average American’s powe…

Do Things That Will Surpass Your Life

Lately, the fact that I’m going to die one day very much bothered me. We all know that finally, the end will come to us. But I wondered why I am so annoyed by…

Package readme on NuGet.org

Detailed explanation of how readme files on NuGet.org are rendered and what to do when you run into issues.

How to Move From Dublin to Berlin — Evan Smith

In October 2019, I moved from Dublin to Berlin. As a Worrier In Residence employed at the Life Of Evan, I planned a lot around the move, the new culture, the new city and all the wonderful things that come with a new adventure. In doing that, I found a common …

Why I created a vaccine finder

I recently built findvaccinefor.me which gets data from WA state sources such as vaccinelocator.doh.wa.gov and prepmod.doh.wa.gov and presents it in a more convenient way (IMO). I built this over few weekends as a tool for me to see where I can get vaccine

What's cooking on SourceHut? April 2021

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

Field notes: Miami

These field notes are a bit different from previous cities I've explored, because unlike those, Miami is my home! So this post partially serves as a life update—I moved to Miami Beach from California a few months ago, and I'm excited to share my...

RH12503/triangula

An iterative algorithm to generate high-quality triangulated images. - RH12503/triangula

chrissainty/BlazorWallpaper

Contribute to chrissainty/BlazorWallpaper development by creating an account on GitHub.

How to navigate directories faster with bash

Changing directories is an extremely frequent activity during my everyday work as a knowledge worker running calculations, analyzing data, and developing code from the terminal. In fact, changing directories is the basic mode of operation to walk between diff…

.NET Core and .NET 5 official support policy

Learn about support policies and how to get help with .NET Core and .NET 5. .NET Core and .NET 5 refer to several technologies including the runtime, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core.

Introducing EcoQoS | Performance and Diagnostics

EcoQoS is a new Quality of Service (QoS) level introduced to Windows that developers can now opt-in to run their work efficiently, leading to better energy efficiency/increased battery life, reduced fan noise and power/thermal throttling.

Procmon v3.70, Sysmon v13.10, Autoruns v13.99, TCPView v4.01 and WinObj v3.03

Procmon v3.70 This update to Process Monitor allows constraining the number of events based on a requested number minutes and/or size of the events data, so that older events are dropped if necessary. It also fixes a bug where the Drop Filtered Events option w…

Why I distrust Google Cloud more than AWS or Azure.

As of April/2021 for people planning on integrating deeply with a Cloud provider services (not going for cloud-agnostic-solutions) choosing to depend on Google Cloud instead of AWS or Azure will more often than not prove to be an expensive mistake.

.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.