12 May 2021

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codepo8/a11y-demos

This is a demo page for a Skillshare class about using browser developer tools to track down and fix accessibility issues. - codepo8/a11y-demos

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Patterns - C# reference

Learn about the patterns supported by C# pattern matching expressions and statements.

Don't build products, build relationships

Pitching your idea to strangers is not validation. In order to validate your product idea, you have to first forget about it and start building relationships. You will unlock learnings from your future users and navigate towards the right product to build.

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Wednesday 21st April 2021 was a day like no other. This certainly isn't my usual web performance related blog post!

To Good Vibes

Tonight I went for drinks outside with a friend for the first time since The Start(C). He'd never been to The Beer Garden where that App...

Turns out Elastic aren't the bad guys

Elastic changed the licence for ElasticSearch disallowing providing it as a service. A lot of people were upset. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. My reflex was to join in the outrage bu…

The DevRel Lie

As Devrel grows more popular so grows its identity crisis and questioning. And COVID-19 didn’t help. We wonder about its meaning. What is it? The good old Marketing or Engineering dilema. How do you measure what you do? This post is not a post about measuring …

OrGY: My Personal Technology Stack

Most system operators will have had experience with the LAMP stack. Comprising Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. There are a number of alternatives out there, and so I thought I may as well document my own preferred tech stack for personal projects.

Node.js Discord Bot Deployment to Linode

Looking to host your Node.js application? Maybe a Node.js Discord bot? Linode provides an option that gives you complete control over your deployed environme...

dotnet/aspnetcore

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux. - dotnet/aspnetcore

Erlang/OTP 24 Highlights

Finally Erlang/OTP 24 is here! A release that for me has been about 10 years in the making. As is tradition by now, this blog post will go through the additions to Erlang/OTP that I am most excited about!

Blazor with Chris Sainty

Tue, May 18, 2021, 6:45 PM: We're very excited to be joined in May by Chris Sainty, author of the book 'Blazor in Action' to talk all about Blazor! We'll update this description to include full talk d

Highly COHESIVE Software Design to tame Complexity

What is cohesion and why should you care? Highly cohesive software design can reduce complexity and coupling. But what is cohesion? It's the degree to which...

Highly available and highly scalable Cloudflare tunnels

Starting today, we’re thrilled to announce you can run the same tunnel from multiple different cloudflareds simultaneously. This enables graceful restarts, elastic auto-scaling, easier Kubernetes integration, and more reliable tunnels.

Can We Trust the Cloud Not to Fail?

I will start with the theory behind failure detection, and then review a couple of real-world examples of how the mechanism works in a real cloud - on Azure. Even though this article includes real-world applications of failure detection within Azure, the same …

Deep Diving Into EF Core: Q&A With Jeremy Likness

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a cross-platform, extensible, open-source object-database mapper for .NET. Since its first release in 2016, EF Core evolved until reaching its current form: a powerful and lightweight .NET ORM. InfoQ interviewed Jeremy Likness, pr…

DIY Air Quality Sensor

Build your own open source, open hardware air quality sensor measuring PM2.5, CO2, Temperature and Humidity.

Announcing the Arduino IDE 2.0 (beta) | Arduino Blog

The Arduino IDE is the well-known software we all use to program our boards. Its development started in 2005 based on the graphical interface of the Processing project and has never stopped since. During these years, countless hours of development by the Ardui…

Sequencer64

An intuitive 64-step drum sequencer progressive web app

Just Use Email – How to use Email for Everything

I noticed a most unusual post published yesterday by a Swiss man named Kasper Etter on a blog he calls Explained from First Principles. The post is simply called Email,…

How to generate video thumbnail with Azure function

This article will discuss about implementing an azure function which generate a thumbnail image for a video stored in Azure Storage. In one of the project I am working there is a requirement to extract thumbnail for the video uploaded by user to a Azure Storag…

Supporting VB.NET in .NET 5

In this episode, Rich is joined by Merrie and Klaus who walk us through some of the new capabilities available for VB .NET developers building WinForms applications [01:10] - What’s the relationship b

C# Language Highlights: Ranges

In this short video, Jasmine and Leslie teach us about Ranges in C# Useful Links RangesRanges and Indices.NET Videos

Cloudflare on the Edge

Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics.