Competing Consumers Pattern for Scalability
The Competing Consumers Pattern allows you to scale horizontally to increase throughput by processing more messages concurrently.
Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the United States of America – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
PayPal Shuts Down Long-Time Tor Supporter with No Recourse
Larry Brandt, a long-time supporter of internet freedom, used his nearly 20-year-old PayPal account to put his money where his mouth is. His primary use of the payment system was to fund servers to run Tor nodes, routing internet traffic in order to safeguard …
Norton 360 antivirus now lets you mine Ethereum cryptocurrency
NortonLifelock has added the ability to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency directly within its Norton 360 antivirus program as a way to "protect" users from malicious mining software.
Generating Synthetic Data Using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with PyTorch -- Visual Studio Magazine
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains a generative adversarial network, a deep neural system that can be used to generate synthetic data for machine learning scenarios, such as generating synthetic males for a dataset that has many females but few…
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 is now available | Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 is available today! This release includes support for .NET 6 Preview 4, updated dialogs written using native macOS Cocoa, and performance improvements for solution load and project build. Visual Studio for Mac version 8.…
Project Tye 101 - Dev, Debug, & Deploy Microservices with Project Tye
See how I implement Project Tye for my solution - including the yet to be released Tye VS Code extension, a GitHub Action, and BlazorTye VS Code Extension: h...
Vinod Vaikuntanathan - Real World Cryptographers Podcast
In this episode with Vinod Vaikuntanathan, a Professor at MIT and a co-founder of Duality Technologies, we discuss fully-homomorphic encryption, the roadmap towards making it practical, lab culture at the MIT crypto group, and more.
Register — Postgres Vision Conference 2021
Register for free today for the 2021 Enterprise Postgres Conference on June 22 and 23.
Benchmarking 4 reflection methods for calling a constructor in .NET
In this post I compare several different ways to call a constructor using reflection, and benchmark them to see which is fastest.
Joining MedeAnalytics
I joined MedeAnalytics last week in a leadership role within their architecture team. Besides helping tackle strategic technical goals like messaging, test automation, and cloud architecture, IR…
From Competitive Programming to APL - CoRecursive Podcast
Today on the show, we have solving algorithmic programming problems. You know when you interview for a job to write CSS and they ask you to reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard using C and in constant memory space? It's that kind of thing. These problems ha…
SB 519 - California Senate (20212022) - Open States
Details on California SB 519 (California 2021-2022 Regular Session) - Controlled substances: decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.
IntelliCode Package Suggestions for NuGet in Visual Studio | The NuGet Blog
Building on Visual Studio’s robust IntelliCode experience for .NET, we’re excited to introduce NuGet IntelliCode Package Suggestions in Visual Studio 16.10! IntelliCode Package Suggestions use your project’s context, such as installed packages and project type…
NixOS - NixOS 21.05 manual
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Visual Studio Toolbox Live - What's New in Visual Studio 16.10?
Time to hit that update button! Join the Visual Studio team in this live show where we'll explore the new features and updates in 16.10!Featuring: Leslie Ric...
Border Patrol Helicopter Had Bizarre Encounter With Mysterious "Highly Modified" Drone (Updated)
The mystery drone flew up to 14,000 feet and was tracked for over an hour. Now the FBI is investigating.
Add non-cryptographic hash algorithms by bartonjs · Pull Request #53623 · dotnet/runtime
Adds a new package, System.IO.Hashing (netstandard2.0, and net461 to reduce netfx restore graph sizes) Provides implementations for four hash algorithms CRC-32 (the variation used by IEEE 802.3 (E...
NixOS - Blog → Announcements
Hey everyone, I'm Jonathan Ringer, the release manager for 21.05. As promised, the latest stable release is here: NixOS 21.05 “Okapi”.
Episode 380 - App Service Environments
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Modern, clean new Firefox clears the way to all you need online | The Mozilla Blog
We set out in 2021 to reimagine Firefox’s design to be fast, modern and inviting the first time you run it and every day after. We’ve always had your b
GOODJOBS
A job board with hand-picked engineering positions at companies trying to fix problems like climate-change and food insecurity. Feedback? Suggest a good job.
Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered
New EPFL research has found that almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake, a scale of manipulation previously unheard of. It also proves for the first time that many trends are created solely by bots due to a vulnerability in Twitter’s …
The Catch Block #60 - Lessons from a Botched Deployment
The hell weeks continue. But at least we learned something. 2.5 things, in fact.
Despite Dust Storms, Solar Power is Best for Mars Colonies - Universe Today
[/caption] Dust — a solar panel’s worst nightmare. Is sending solar-powered robots to the Red Planet a bad idea? Mars is a very dusty planet, and Mars dust sticks to everything, especially solar arrays. After all, Phoenix’s death was probably hastened by a Sun…
Event Driven Architecture for Real-Time Web
Event Driven Architecture isn't just for communicating between services or systems. It's a characteristic of your architecture. You can develop a monolith a...
Questions to ask before pursuing Kubernetes
Today’s post brought to you by an innocent sounding question in the Rands Leadership Slack (paraphrased): I’m joining a company as their first Devops person and their infra needs a seri…
Search Box/Bar/Field with Blazor WebAssembly using Blazored.Typeahead | Blazor E-Commerce Series #11
🔥 Get up to 95% discount on the Bootcamp: https://www.udemy.com/course/blazor-webassembly/?referralCode=647B4EAACD6D8E4E6872📧 Subscribe to my newsletter: h...
Confoo 2021 - Chris Sainty - Blazor
Dans cette entrevue, nous avons parlé de Blazor, autant de son adoption que de son futur, des librairies Nuget Blazored et de son livre en préparation sur Bl...
The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 3: Addressing modes | The Old New Thing
The ARM processor employs a load-store architecture, but that doesn’t mean that it has to skimp on the addressing modes. Every addressing mode starts with a base register. A base register of pc, may be used only in load instructions, and the value is rounded d…
Rust for Rustaceans
For developers who’ve mastered the basics, this book is the next step on your way to professional-level programming in Rust. It covers everything you need to build and maintain larger code bases, write powerful and flexible applications and libraries, and conf…
TreeSize Free | JAM Software
TreeSize Free is a free disk space manager for Windows. The software shows you the sizes of folders including all subfolders.
Zip Assist for HydroTap's | Cloud Connection for Remote System Access | Zip Water
Connect your HydroTaps to the cloud via Wi-Fi and access all information remotely & manage products using a web browser. Register your HydroTaps today for Zip Assist.
DIY Book Scanner
We are a community of people who build book scanners. We have taken preservation into our own hands. We are the missing link between your bookshelf and your e-reader. Join us! Get involved by trying a simple scanner, building a kit, or pushing the limits of sc…
JD, Ecommerce Giant, Made Apology for User Data Leakage - Ecommerce China
Chinese e-commerce industry never fails to provide interting news. There are lots of things happening in this market which are keeping journalists, newscasters, media, and public on their toe. Soemtimes this market get the attention of Chinese government and…
Intl - JavaScript | MDN
The Intl object is the namespace for the ECMAScript Internationalization API, which provides language sensitive string comparison, number formatting, and date and time formatting. The Intl object provides access to several constructors as well as functionality…
.NET App Developer Links - 2021-06-02
The latest news and resources for .NET app developers.
Pesticides Are Killing the World’s Soils
They cause significant harm to earthworms, beetles, ground-nesting bees and thousands of other vital subterranean species
BlueJeans Network | Recording Playback
BlueJeans Network - Interoperable, Cloud-based, Affordable Video Conferencing Service
Craftsman v0.10 - .NET 5 Event Scaffolding, Spectre Console, and More! – Wrapt
This new release for Craftsman brings event driven scaffolding to your .NET projects (and a ton more)!
Working With .NET 6’s PriorityQueue
Learn about .NET 6 PriorityQueue data structure and how to set priority using IComparer.
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GitHub is where people build software. More than 65 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 200 million projects.
How to create a better front-end developer experience | Red Hat Developer
Learn about the three common pain points for front-end developers, and how solving them actually improves user experience with your applications.
Winget Goes Mainstream, But Still Lags Behind
The Windows Package Manager will be an essential developer tool — eventually
Episode 17: Breaking Wi-Fi With Frame Attacks!
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PlayingCards.io
Play any tabletop game online with friends. PlayingCards.io Multiplayer Virtual Card Table
Best Practices Around Production Ready Web Apps with Docker Compose
Here's a few patterns I've picked up based on using Docker since 2014. I've extracted these from doing a bunch of freelance work.
Tye - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Makes it easy to debug and interact with applications using Tye.
Amazon Location Service Pricing – Amazon Web Services
Learn about Amazon Location Service pricing for maps, places, routing, tracking and geofences. There are no upfront costs with Amazon Location Service, and you only pay for what you use.
The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
(With a caveat: I'm compiling the ARMv8 64-bit Pi OS kernel.)
Low-Code Power Apps Uses AI for No-Code Natural Language Development: 'The Code Writes Itself' -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft's low-code Power Apps is seemingly headed to no-code, helping developers leverage AI to create applications with natural language.
Everything You Might Want to Know about Whaling
I think whaling is really cool. I can’t help it. It’s one of those things like guns and war and space colonization which hits the adventurous id. The idea that people used to go out in tiny boats i…
Why do companies that sell APIs have such low churn rates?
You would expect otherwise. An API is a stationary target - stability is a key value driver. It has well-defined inputs and outputs (which are not IP according to the Supreme Court). In theory, this makes it an easy target for competitors to offer a drop in re…
How to send and receive emails in automation tests
Mail automation in Scala: sending and receiving messages
How I Launched my Product on Reddit to get 1,500 Sign-ups and 300,000 Page-views
In this post, I'll explain how you can come up with a start-up idea, get it validated, and have a great launch while providing value for the subreddit. I will not be discussing "how to build MVP" part because that'd be a waste of time for everybody. I've valid…
A/B testing without a backend using only JavaScript and your analytics
The Modern World vs. The Traditional World
What is the difference between the modern world and the traditional world? We know that the world we live in now is very different from the…
The dream of end-to-end typesafety
In the mid-2010s, the pendulum of web development swung massively in the direction of increased type safety.
Using Wikipedia as an Impromptu RottenTomatoes API
Last week I posted an errhm Tweetstorm making a few quite important points:
Measuring potential complexity in popular Open Source projects
Complexity surrounds software everywhere. I'll show you what to watch out for in popular open source projects.
Release OBS Studio 27.0 · obsproject/obs-studio
If you would like to support the OBS Project, please consider contributing to our Patreon or Open Collective! New Features and Additions Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim] Added a new capture metho...
Announcing Visual Studio Code extension for Tye | .NET Blog
We are excited to announce the availability of our Visual Studio Code Tye extension, which makes it easier to view, run, and debug applications that are using Tye from within Visual Studio Code. This is a continuation of the Tye experiment,
What Zero-copy Serialization Means?
Man's search for zero-copy meaning
Steve BlankYour Product is Not Their Problem
There are no facts inside your building, so get the heck outside I just had a call with Lorenz, a former business school student who started a job at a biotech startup making bacteria to take CO2 o…