24 May 2021

55 links · Monday

ION – We Have Liftoff!

ION – We Have Liftoff!   Four years ago, we started a journey to help develop and advance decentralized identity, an emerging form of identity technology that empowers individuals and creates new business capabilities. Our goal is to put individuals, organizat…

4 Things I Like About Microservices

Microservices have gone through a complete hype cycle. From being hailed as the one true way to build systems, to a backlash where they are often considered too difficult and complex. In a way thou…

How Does Trade Execution Work

What happens after you click “Submit Order”? How does whatever you type into a webform or app gets turned into money changing hands, and shares changing hands? In this post, we explore …

Don't Teach Statistics in High School

In recent years, there have been more and more calls to prioritize statistics in high-school math curricula. The rationale is that unlike, say, calculus, statistics is supposedly much more applicable in everyday life. Sounds nice, but what does that really mea…

Matter.js

Matter.js is 2D rigid body physics engine for the web, using JavaScript and HTML5

Accepting Payments and Getting Paid

Our guide, How buying works, explained the process buyers go through when purchasing something on itch.io. This guide explains how creators can accept payments and get paid.

Intro to Graphics 14 - Textures on the GPU

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Dolphin Emulator

From the announcement made on November 10th, 2020, users have had high hopes for the new Apple M1 devices. With its powerful Apple Silicon processor smashing benchmarks all over the place, users and developers were both asking if a native Dolphin build would b…

Build software better, together

GitHub is where people build software. More than 65 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 200 million projects.

255: What is encryption anyways?

256-bit super duty encryption is what is sold now adays, but what good is it if it isn't end-to-end. In light of the most recent security camera bug via Anker's eufy line we talk about what encryption should be and what these companies can do to make it better…

Ingrid's Space

Ingrid's personal site and blog

Monsters Weekly 211 - .NET 5 on Azure Functions

Writing Azure Functions in C# has traditionally been a cool mashup of DLLs, dependencies and magic while Azure orchestrated the calls for you. But in today’s .NET 5 world, we get to take the reigns ba

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.3

We have released an update to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, version 2.1.3. The update addresses a couple of issues that are important to our customers.   Updates in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.1.3 include:   Fixed Fixed wrong data blended with transactions in .NET…

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.0 Preview 3

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 3.0 Preview 3 has been released. This release contains improvements and updates to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two preview releases in between. This ca…

Melb.NET June 2021 IN PERSON and ONLINE Meetup

Tue, Jun 1, 2021, 6:30 PM: 🎉 Melb․NET June Meetup is coming to you IN PERSON and ONLINE!!Get ready to join us on Tuesday, June 1 at 6:30 pm in person at Azenix OR live-streamed to wherever you may be

Why build an entire computer on breadboards?

More on breadboards: https://www.eater.net/breadboardsMore on the 6502 project: https://www.eater.net/6502Here are the graphing calculator models if you'd li...

Lockdown math announcement

Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDP5CVelJJ1bNDouqrAhVPevHelp fund future projects: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brownAn equal...

How assembly language loops work

More 6502: https://eater.net/6502Support these videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beneater or https://eater.net/support for other ways to support.---...

RAM and bus timing — 6502 part 6

Schematics, datasheets, kits, and more at https://eater.net/6502Support these videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beneater or https://eater.net/suppor...

Some Fun APIs

We couldn't decide if we wanted to gather around the water cooler or talk about some cool APIs, so we opted to do both, while Joe promises there's a W in his name, Allen doesn't want to say graph, and Michael isn't calling out applets.

Teardown of a PC power supply

Have you ever wondered what's inside your computer's power supply? The task of a PC power supply is to convert the power from the wall (1...