28 May 2021

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Anatomy of a Tech Blog

This simple blog will explain how to get started in writing a tech blog. Find out the why and how of easy writing, while I am learning to learn in public.

The crisis of optimisation

If academic research science is having a crisis of integrity, then what can we expect from the closed door world of corporate A/B testing?

QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare

The Internet Engineering Task Force published RFC 9000 - the standardarized version of the QUIC transport protocol. And we’ve made the standardized version of QUIC available to Cloudflare customers.

Being Normal Made Me Miserable - Victor Rotariu

Don’t read this if you are happy living a normal life Warning: self-therapy alert. If you have a great normal life, perfectly happy, then this will not be relevant for you. But if you ever felt the pressure to be normal but then wondered why it is not so great…

Can a company vendor lock patient data?

When I first started my new blog, I wanted to post at least one post a week. But just like everything else I have not being able to post at least one blog post per week. One reason for this has been I have been assigned to work at an ICU taking care of COVI…

Intro to Graphics 15 - Shading

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

WordPress 18

Today marks eighteen years since the very first release of WordPress. I consider myself so lucky to have co-founded the project alongside Mike Little. Who could have imagined that our nights and we…

Why “Technical Debt” should be narrowly focused

My post What Technical Debt is and Isn’t got a lot of feedback, and today we’re going to talk about why my definition for Technical Debt is so narrow, and why yours should be too. The f…

Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly - IEEE Spectrum

Ingenuity’s sixth flight on Mars took place this week, and we’ve just heard details from JPL on an “in-flight anomaly.” The little robotic helicopter did manage to land safely, more or less where it was aiming for, but the software glitch that it encountered s…

Build apps faster with the latest Microsoft Teams Toolkit

Last year at Build 2020, we debuted the Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio – extensions that streamlined the app development process within the tools developers already knew and loved. Now, a year later at Build 2021, we’re contin…

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Code Maze Weekly #78 - Code Maze

Issue #78 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Secure an Angular SPA and an ASP.NET Core API using Auth0 [damienbod.com] A comprehensive article on securing angular SPA + ASP.NET Core with Auth0 by Damien Bowd…

deCONZ

Instructions on how to setup ConBee/RaspBee devices with deCONZ from dresden elektronik within Home Assistant.

Diversity & Inclusion Survey 2021

The NCSC and KPMG UK have launched the 2021 diversity and inclusion survey for the cyber security industry.

The Xamarin Podcast Episode 93: Blackbaud

Another customer success story! This time find out how Blackbaud started from no Xamarin experience to delivering a complexing mobile payment terminal to help nonprofits - even with bindings to hardware!

JavaScript at Microsoft

Welcome to docs.microsoft.com/javascript.    This is a new landing page designed to be a front-door to our end-to-end tools, services and runtimes for JavaScript developers. Some of the resources which support Educators and Students.  BEGINNING RESOURCES L…

QUIC is now RFC 9000

QUIC version 1 is officially formalized, and QUIC deployments will now move away from using temporary draft versions to the newly minted version 1.

Security: Separation of Privilege

(part 4 of my series of articles on security principles in Microsoft SQL Servers & Databases)   Security principle: Separation of Privilege  The Principle of Separation of Privilege, aka Privilege separation demands that a given single control component is not…

How to Wipe Your Butt Like a Ranger

How to Wipe Your Butt Like a Ranger. Ever wonder how they do it? I know you have.. How to Wipe Your Butt Like an US Army It isn' t easy spreading democracy to t

A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport

This document defines the core of the QUIC transport protocol. QUIC provides applications with flow-controlled streams for structured communication, low-latency connection establishment, and network path migration. QUIC includes security measures that ensure …