26 April 2021

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The Chronicle

Everyone is grappling with these questions right now: can remote teams produce the same results as in-person teams? Do companies need to go remote to stay competitive in the technology job market? What effects, if any, would a sea change in remote work have on…

Dabbling in Cryptography

This note tells the story of some work that I was involved with, but to which I was not a primary contributor. For reasons that should become clear, the people most involved have not gone public with their results. Still, it is one of the more interesting thi…

Ether as a computation unit

The Bitcoin community dreams of Hyperbitcoinization, and believes the endgame of bitcoin (or satoshis, a smaller denomination of it) is to become a major unit of account. Their idea is to have things commercially priced in bitcoin rather than the local currenc…

Books I've Read (2020)

I’ve never been a fan of e-readers. I’m put off by the prospect of paying for a book that only exists on a device, especially when the price of e-books approaches or exceeds the cost of physical books (especially the used copies I tend to buy). I also just lov…

Introduction

A series of posts about QEMU internals

Create a .NET Core Project Template for Visual Studio

Every .NET project is based on a project template. Want to learn more about the ones that ship "in the box"? Want to learn how to create your own? In this multi-part series, ASP.NET PM Sayed

2021 Williams F1 CFD

Thanks to some clever people I was able to get a CAD model of the current 2021 Williams F1 car — that’s not something that happens every day, so of course I had to run CFD on it. CAD Ge…

lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game. - lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

dodyg/practical-aspnetcore

Practical samples of ASP.NET Core 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.0 and 6.0 Preview 4 projects you can use. Readme contains explanations on all projects. - dodyg/practical-aspnetcore

.NET News Roundup - Week of April 19th, 2021

This past week was marked by the announcement of Visual Studio 2022, the first 64-bit version of the popular .NET IDE. InfoQ examined this and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 19th, 2021.

Windows Package Manager v0.3 Preview | Windows Command Line

We have been hard at work building new experimental features for the Windows Package Manager. We have just released the Windows Package Manager v0.3 Preview. I would like to share the first major feature to exit experimental status. I also have the privilege o…

3 simple ways to collect data for asp.net core applications post publishing to production

    3 Easy steps to perform Logging in Asp.net core after its published to production servers.   There are times when we face challenges to debug the applications which is already in production and we need to know what is happening for that piece of code and s…

I CAN MAKE THIS WORK

The Service Now REST API is an API which allows you to interact with Service Now. It produces different shaped results based upon the sysparmdisplayvalue query parameter. This post looks at how we can model these API results with TypeScripts conditional types.…

F# wrappers for React components

Coming from a JS background I was spoiled with such a rich ecosystem of packages via npm. Pre-built components that work out the box with minimal effort so that I could focus on business logic. Similarly the F# community have built incredible tools like Fable …

Write Great APIs

We discuss all things APIs: what makes them great, what makes them bad, and what we might like to see in them while Michael plays a lawyer on channel 46, Allen doesn't know his favorite part of the show, and Joe definitely pays attention to the tips of the wee…

Melb.NET May 2021 IN PERSON Meetup

Tue, 4 May 2021, 6:30 pm: 🎉 Melb․NET May Meetup is coming to you IN PERSON!!Get ready to join us on Tuesday, May 4 at 6:30 pm @SSW🗣 Apply to speak now: https://bit.ly/melbdotnet-cfpWe have lots of F