27 April 2021

58 links · Tuesday

calibre - E-book management

calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.

TJA statement on updating bylines

On Updating Trans Journalists’ Bylines In recent weeks, there have been ongoing conversations about whether it is appropriate to retroactively change a trans journalist’s byline once they have come out. We, the Trans Journalists Association, charge that it’s …

Webmention Analytics

I built a tool to analyze incoming webmentions. This new side project generates monthly reports to see how and where my content is mentioned.

Why dummy data matters - and how to generate it - Michael Stivala

Part of creating a successful Staging and Test environment for your application is generating dummy data as part of your deployment process. This dummy data is used during development, the QA process and even for feature demos. Making it easy for application s…

Developing Expertise at Work: A Guide

Every company has a shortage of experts. The world inside and outside every organization is constantly changing, and even someone who has solved a problem before, hasn’t solved it in the current co…

Dropbox is way too clingy

A post in which I post about how involved the Dropbox cancellation process is.

Don't consume news in the morning

Don't consume stuff in the morning. You are more productive and you will get more work done at the beginning of your day.

Epistemology Wars

Seven books I've read in the last two months and the common, culturally-relevant thesis that joins all of them together.

.NET Foundation Project Spotlight - Roslyn

.NET Foundation Marketing Committee member Isaac Levin spoke to Jared Parsons, one of the maintainers of Roslyn. For more detail, be sure to check out the Pr...

FBI Shares Email Addresses to Speed Emotet Cleanup

The FBI has shared 4.3 million email addresses stolen by the Emotet malware with the Have I Been Pwned breach notification site. The entry of those addresses into

Welcome to swimlanes.io

Swimlanes.io is a simple free online tool for making sequence diagrams

Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0 | Visual Basic Blog

We’ve heard your feedback that you want Visual Basic on .NET Core. Earlier versions of .NET Core supported Class Library and Console applications types. Starting with .NET 5 Visual Basic will support: Class Library Console Windows Forms WPF Worker Service ASP.…

Don't Use the Sidebar in VS Code!!

If you want to write code faster, don't use the Sidebar in VS Code. It will slow you down! As a developer, your goal should be to keep your hands off of the ...

Some more C# 9 - Red Hat Developer

Explore C# 9's new nint and nuint native-sized integer types for facilitating native interop in C# 9 programs, in this final article in the series.

FAQ | Ataque cibernético | 14/03

1) Quais dados foram afetados ou vazados? Sua senha não foi comprometida por este ataque cibernético. No entanto, aproveitamos para lembrar que, como uma boa prática, é recomendável que você altere...

Jefit Data Incident Public Announcement

Dear Jefit user, We are releasing a public announcement about a cyber-incident that may have exposed some of your Jefit account information (No financial data involved). If your Jefit account was registered before September 20th, 2020, your account might be im…

Useful features from C# 7 to 9 with Julien Couvreur

Thu, Apr 29, 2021, 7:30 PM: There are loads of new useful functions in the C# languages, but many of us are focusing on writing code so not all of us have taken the time to try the new features.We hav

Woven Planet, a subsidiary of Toyota, to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division

$550 Million Deal Unites Talent, Technology and Geographies to Propel the Industry Forward Lyft, Inc. (LYFT) announced today that the company has signed an agreement with Woven Planet Holdings, Inc., (“Woven Planet”), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, …

Changes at Basecamp

At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as we improve products through iteration, we iterate on our co…