4 June 2021

52 links · Friday

Steve BlankYou Don’t Need Permission

I was pleasantly surprised to hear from Suresh, an ex-student I’ve known for a long time. A U.S. citizen he was now the head of sales and marketing for a company in London selling medical devices t…

The Life Hack of Lifehacks - Victor Rotariu

Information overwhelms us at an individual level. The lifehack of lifehacks is to deliberately select the information that you process. Learn how.

Use Auth0 custom actions to enrich user tokens with business data

Have you ever had the need to enrich your users access token or id token with custom data from your backend after they login? With Auth0 and their actions this has become really easy. In this blog post I want to show you how you can do an API call to one of yo…

Pijul - On fires

An easy to use, distributed and fast version control system.

Microsoft's PowerShell Dev Team Helps Fix OmniSharp -- Visual Studio Magazine

In announcing an update to the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's dev team revealed it helped fix the latest edition of the OmniSharp C# Language Server Protocol in a month-long effort. One of the bugs fixed would have broken the debugg…

The Security Engineer Handbook

learn to make it in a security team, develop a risk-oriented mindset, and discover the secrets of the industry

Why We Should End the Data Economy - The Reboot

The data economy depends on violating our right to privacy on a massive scale, collecting as much personal data as possible for profit.

Microsoft Edge DevTools for VS Code survey

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Fuzzing is Beta Ready - The Go Blog

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

Weekly Update 246

Going live with my weekly vid in a few minutes! It's Winter; Pwned Passwords & 1B; Heaps of HIBP PRs; Dominican Republic on HIBP; Belgium on HIBP

An overview of Azure Web PubSub | Azure Friday

Develop web applications with real-time messaging using Azure Web PubSub, a fully managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets. David Fowl...

</> htmx - Documentation

Htmx is a library that allows you to access modern browser features directly from HTML, rather than using javascript.

Somehow This Robot Sticks to Ceilings by Vibrating a Flexible Disc - IEEE Spectrum

Just when I think I’ve seen every possible iteration of climbing robot, someone comes up with a new way of getting robots to stick to things. The latest technique comes from the Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab at UCSD, where they’ve managed to get a robot …

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 5: Arithmetic | The Old New Thing

The general format of three-register instructions in Thumb-2 goes like this:¹ op Rd, Rn, #imm12 ; Rd = Rn op decode(imm12) op Rd, Rn, Rm ; Rd = Rn op Rm op Rd, Rn, Rm, shift ; Rd = Rn op (Rm with shift applied) ;

Code Maze Weekly #79 - Code Maze

Issue #79 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Benchmarking 4 reflection methods for calling a constructor in .NET [andrewlock.net] Four different reflection methods, four different results. Which reflection m…

Microsoft Announces Event Hubs Premium in Preview

Azure Event Hubs is Microsoft’s managed real-time event ingestion service designed to serve demanding big data streaming and event ingestion needs in the Cloud. Microsoft announced the public preview of Event Hubs Premium during the annual Build conference as …

When LINQ is not LINQ

Check out the ABP Framework here: https://bit.ly/3uGp80VSubscribe: http://bit.ly/ChapsasSubBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.c...

Math Has a Fatal Flaw

Not everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war and led to the modern computer. This video ...

.NET Foundation - Invidious

You've found the heartbeat of .NET—where projects and communities come together to get things done in our open-source world. Share your skills for the greater good. Meet in person, get involved virtually, and stay on top of the latest news, meetups, and events…

PowerShell for Visual Studio Code May 2021 Update | PowerShell Team

We are excited to announce that an update to our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in this release as well as what you can expect from the extension in the coming months.

Nulls in Value Objects

Today, we’ll discuss an interesting use case of handling nulls in value objects. Should you put null inside the value objects themselves or decorate those value objects using the nullable reference type notation (? or Maybe)?

Vitess | A new Protocol Buffers generator for Go

Although the main interface between applications and a Vitess database is through the MySQL protocol, Vitess is a large and complex distributed system, and all the communication between the different services in a Vitess cluster is performed through GRPC.

Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase

At Red Planet Labs we’ve been quietly developing a new kind of developer tool for many years. Our tool reduces the cost of building large-scale end-to-end applications by multiple orders of m…