The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge
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Kernel Density Estimation
A useful statistical tool that sounds scarier than it is.
Plane Uprising – AstroPlane
Do you want the mindset of Amazon or PayPal dictating the first space colony?
Moving out of MacOS: Making Linux habitable
It's better with a little TLC
Andrea Scarpino - Sharing your amortisation schedule to anyone
Last month, my company allowed me to claim some benefits through a dedicated platform. This platform is specifically built for this purpose and allows you to recover these benefits not only in the form of coupons or discount codes, but also as reimbursements f…
My review of the Moonlander MK1 keyboard
The Moonlander MK1 is an ergonomic, highly customizable split keyboard. I ordered one after I couldn’t stand anymore my hand and wrist pains. In this blog post, I want to share my keyboard journey, my experiences with the Moonlander, how I am using it and what…
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Security Headers - Jeremy Shaw Blog
Going through the pros and cons of HTTP security headers using an SVG and firebase as an example
Layer 2 Part 3: RPVSTP+, faster than light! - A thousand hours to converge
Introduction After several posts talking about classic STP, finally we are arriving to some modern use of the STP. Nowadays everybody would use RPVST+ or MST. There are several advantages of use Rapid STP: First, it’s backwards compatible with classic PVSTP+ S…
Terraform Plan RCE
Running a Terraform plan on unstrusted code can lead to RCE and credential exfiltration.
SecureString obsoletions and shrouded buffer proposal by GrabYourPitchforks · Pull Request #147 · dotnet/designs
This document addresses obsoleting certain SecureString APIs for .NET 6. It is a type we have wanted to wind down for a while, and we have some outstanding work items that can address the reasons d...
Abstractions and translation - Blog by Amir Bolous
To what extent is communication just translation?
Developing on a M1 Mac with Visual Studio for Mac | Visual Studio Blog
Hi! We recently posted about how Visual Studio for Mac is supporting Apple Silicon / M1 architecture through the Rosetta translation layer starting in version 8.9, and we’re working towards native support. We’ve been using and testing with M1 Macs, but it’s al…
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Everything is social—Part I
[Note: I wrote this three-part post to summarize a larger thesis I have been slowly building up these past months, which may or may not end up being a larger work. For this post, I have removed mos…
Flutter Update Furthers UWP Desktop Support -- Visual Studio Magazine
Google's popular cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit is out in a v2.2 update that furthers support for creating Universal Windows Platform (UWP) desktop applications.
Search is Dead
Almost anything you need can be found online, its just hard to find. Because Google has shifted from being a Librarian to an Oracle.
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Improving Firefox stability on Linux – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
A year ago at Mozilla we started to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS.
Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities
Apple today announced powerful software features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.
Mental and Emotional Well-Being
How can IBD affect your mental and emotional well-being?
Visual Studio 2019 Preview Release Notes
Get the latest pre-release features, bug fixes, and support for Visual Studio 2019. Available for pre-release testing. Download today.
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Libera Chat
A next-generation IRC network for FOSS projects collaboration!
Conversation about ready to run | .NET Blog
Ready to run (R2R) is the native executable code format for .NET. R2R code is produced using the crossgen tool. We’re using the conversation format again, this time with three of the engineers who work on ready to run code generation.
Entity Framework Community Standup - Building Modern Apps with GraphQL
GraphQL is a great way to expose data whether you expose your business layer in a much richer way or just map your data models to get started quickly. GraphQ...
The Catch Block #58 - Putting Out Fires, .NET Updates, and AutoHotKey
A deployment that didn't go so well. Plus personal extensions, a TypeScript RC, and GitHub Actions.
Fixing translation request batching by vs-savelich · Pull Request #21 · IEvangelist/resource-translator
Fixed locales batching. Implemented request batching when file is too large (more than 10 000 characters or more than 100 resource keys). Fixes #18
Dropping support for Internet Explorer 11
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) was released over 7 years ago and is currently used by less than 1% of all users on the Internet with usage rapidly declining. A large majority of popular websites have …
Elixir v1.12 released
Elixir v1.12 is out with improvements to scripting, tighter Erlang/OTP 24 integration, stepped ranges, and dozen of new functions across the standard library
Selling Tiny Internet Projects For Fun and Profit
How I sold my project Earlyname, how much I sold it for, and how to sell tiny internet projects.
Competing Consumers Pattern for Scalability | Message Queues
The Competing Consumers pattern enables messages from Message Queues (or Topics) to be process concurrently by multiple Consumers. This improves scalability...
Welcome to Libera Chat
We’re excited to announce the launch of Libera.Chat, and welcome you to a next-generation IRC network for free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavours.
Concurrency vs. Parallelism
Concurrency and parallelism are two terms often used in relation to multithreaded applications. This tutorial explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism.
Awaiting Windows Runtime asynchronous operations from C# desktop apps | The Old New Thing
Some time ago, I showed how to use Windows Runtime objects from C# desktop apps. But that solution only went part of the way. It gave you access to the objects, but it didn’t provide a way to await any asynchronous operations.
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freenode now belongs to Andrew Lee, and I'm leaving for a new network.
In the past few weeks, we began to realise this had changed[2][3], and Mr Lee has sought to assert total legal control over the network, including user data. Despite our best efforts, the legal advice the freenode staff has obtained is that the contract signed…
A Teenager's Guide to Avoiding Actual Work
How in 1982, the author successfully hacked his way out of having to fill in potholes.
The Matrix Space Beta! | Matrix.org
Azure Community Singapore (ACS) (Singapore, Singapore)
Welcome to Azure Community Singapore (ACS)Hi there!This group is OPEN FOR ALL (IT Pro, Developers, Start-ups) who interested in cloud technology or cloud enthusiasts. If you are a beginner, or in your
Outreach Committee Announces Proposal Process
This is your .NET Foundation!
.NET Developers Community Singapore (Singapore, Singapore)
Welcome to .NET (dotnet) Developers Community SingaporeHi there,The .NET has been Open Sourced since November 2014 and as community, we would like to share our expertise to others. This group is OPEN
GitHub OCTO | Flat Data
OCTO Project: Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “[git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/) to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datas…
LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology
LaMDA adds pieces to one of the most tantalizing sections of the language puzzle: conversation.
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.NET App Developer Links - 2021-05-19
The latest news and resources for .NET app developers.
I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about a developer shortage
When I scroll on Facebook or TikTok or any other social media there seems to be a growing trend in April 2021 for the tech community. Tech…
Azure Static Web Apps: Bring Your Own Function (BYOF) - Simple Talk
Azure technologies evolve so fast sometimes we lose track of what’s happening. One day, a simple technology is created, on the next day, it becomes
Building an Event Driven .NET Application: Setting Up MassTransit and RabbitMQ – Wrapt
This is the second post in the Building an Event Driven .NET Application series. In this post, we’ll see how we can set up our MassTransit bus to send message to and receive messages from RabbitMQ.
dotMemory Support For Linux Process Dumps | The .NET Tools Blog
Great news, Linux users! dotMemory 2021.1 now supports analyzing dumps collected using gcore and dotnet-dump for your Linux-hosted .NET applications. In this post, we'll explore how to use a Linux en
9 sessions you should not miss at Build 2021
Build 2021 is soon upon us (May 25–27). The prudent attendee will take the time to plan their virtual session schedule. To help with your plan, we are highlighting nine key sessions across the platform that you won’t want to miss. These sessions share all the …
Learn Git - Episode 4 - Visual Studio Code and GitHub
Join John Papa and Peter de Tender and explore Episode 4 of this four-part Microsoft Learn Git series. Git can seem a little cryptic at first, and it can even be frustrating at times. But if you learn
The data model behind Notion's flexibility
Notion’s data model enables the product’s most foundational component: blocks. Through blocks, we allow users more flexibility and better control over their information.
5 Ways to Speed up Your End-to-End Tests
End-to-end tests are excellent for high-quality web applications. Unfortunately, they tend to be slow. Here are 5 tips to keep your tests running efficiently.
Announcing PlanetScale: The database for developers.
PlanetScale is the first database designed for developer workflows, on top of the technology of the hyperscalers.
AzureFunBytes - Microsoft Identity with Christos Matskas! | Azure DevOps Blog
AzureFunBytes is a weekly opportunity to learn more about the fundamentals and foundations that make up Azure. It’s a chance for me to understand more about what people across the Azure organization do and how they do it. Every week we get together at 11 AM Pa…
Tink | Google Developers
Tink is a multi-language, cross-platform, open source library that provides secure and easy-to-use cryptographic APIs.
Release Tink 1.6.0 · google/tink
Tink is a multi-language, cross-platform library that provides simple and misuse-proof APIs for common cryptographic tasks. This is Tink 1.6.0. To get started using Tink, see the installation instr...
Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof. | Quanta Magazine
Studies of sleep are usually neurological. But some of nature’s simplest animals suggest that sleep evolved for metabolic reasons, long before brains even existed.
Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
With Site Isolation enabled on Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla takes its security guarantees to the next level.