26 May 2021

53 links · Wednesday

How I forged the Lithuanian Vaccine Certificate

The story of how I was able to alter the data of the national vaccine certificate, to make it appear that an invalid certificate permits some exceptions for contact activities, making it possible to mislead certificate checkers. And then got it fixed.

Fighting Procrastination with Orgmode

Note: Text in English because its written for an international audience. We all know those task, that we always push ahead into the future. Those tasks that we know we should do sooner or later, but we decide for later. We all have them, wether it is a ta…

Features I Wish I Included in my MVP

Two months after launching my MVP, there are some things I regret not including from the beginning. Here are 6 features you should consider in your MVP that take little extra work for very high reward

Let’s Build a Regex Engine

How to understand the language of <\/?[\w\s]*>|<.+[\W]>

Pasquale D'Silva

Software Product Designer & Animator

Oxide

Servers as they should be. Hardware, with the software baked in, for running infrastructure at scale. Shipping early 2022.

Windows Software Developer - Tailscale

We're seeking a full-time Windows Software Developer to join our growing team. In this role you will be primarily responsible for improving, extending, and maintaining Tailscale’s highly popular Windows client. Work will involve a mix of frontend a...

Valisure Detects Benzene in Sunscreen - Valisure

VALISURE DETECTS HIGH LEVELS OF KNOWN HUMAN CARCINOGEN BENZENE IN SEVERAL SUNSCREEN PRODUCTS AND REQUESTS FDA ACTIONS 78 sunscreen and after-sun care products contained benzene, an industrial chemical known to cause cancer and other potentially serious health …

The Expanse UI Design — HUDS+GUIS

Here’s a look at the various FUI designs from the sci-fi series The Expanse . Special thanks to Brian Benton who suggested this and provided some great links as well! A lot of the images have been collected from this massive image dump from drainsmith and…

STOP "doing" Domain Driven Design

The mainstream though on Domain Driven Design is about Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates, Repositories, Services, Factories... all kinds of technical patte...

How ownership of the Windows clipboard is tracked in Win32 | The Old New Thing

In Win32, there is the concept of a clipboard owner. How does that work? The intended rule is that the clipboard owner is the window that created the data that is currently on the clipboard. The intended usage pattern for putting data on the clipboard is Call …

What Technical Debt is and isn’t

​Technical debt. In tech, I’m not sure there are two words that are more confusing than technical debt. It means something different to everyone. It’s important to understand what techn…

facundoolano/rpg-cli

Your filesystem as a dungeon! Contribute to facundoolano/rpg-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@kline@mastodon.sdf.org)

andrew lee just seized over 700 channels on freenode because they mentioned libera.chat in their topic. This includes projects like openbsd, wikimedia, FOSDEM, etc. https://archive.is/uHw1g shows 720 channels that match what is being checked. here's an exam…

Create and Publish OpenAPI enabled Azure Functions with Visual Studio and .NET

Today, we are announcing a preview NuGet package, template, and Visual Studio v16.10 publishing support for creating OpenAPI enabled Azure Functions. The OpenAPI Specification is an API description format for REST APIs and has become the leading convention f…

ReSharper 2021.2 Roadmap | The .NET Tools Blog

In this post, we'll see what the ReSharper team is working on for the upcoming 2021.2 release. The features in this post are in addition to ongoing efforts expressed in the 2021.1 roadmap blog post, s

Windows Terminal Preview 1.9 Release | Windows Command Line

Happy Microsoft Build 2021 and happy 2nd birthday to Windows Terminal! This release introduces version 1.9 to Windows Terminal Preview and migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.8. As always, you can install both builds from the Microsoft Store as well as from…

Announcing Azure Event Hubs Premium – Public Preview

Today, businesses require big data streaming platforms and event ingestion services that can process millions of events per second to build dynamic data pipelines and immediately respond to business challenges. Azure Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data…

Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover

If biodiversity continues to decline in freshwater environments at the current rate - which is higher than the extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs – the damage may take millions of years to overcome.

Codenotary Inc Releases immudb v1.0

The CodeNotary team is excited to announce the release of version 1.0 of its immutable database immudb, now with support for SQL and the new TimeTravel(™) feat