8 June 2021

50 links · Tuesday

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

Language Learning with Netflix

LLN is a Chrome extension that gives you superpowers over Netflix. It makes studying languages with films/series more effective and enjoyable.

Playdate. Pre-orders begin in July.

It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. There’s a crank. It comes with 24 free games to get you started. Say hi to Playdate from Panic.

Dave's Garage: Shop Makeover Progress

A short video montage showing the renovations currently underway at Dave's Garage... this is why I've only released one video of late, I've been rebuilding ...

Build apps for Microsoft Teams with .NET | Visual Studio Blog

We recently announced updates to the Teams Toolkit – a streamlined way to create, debug, and deploy apps to Microsoft Teams. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at how to get started developing a new Microsoft Teams app with .NET and Blazor using the Team…

Supercharging Windows Disk Speeds

Retired Microsoft engineer Davepl explains how to add L2 Cache to a Windows system, such as Optane in front of NvME, or NvME in front of SATA. Radically inc...

Release 8.0.0 (2021-06-08) · grafana/grafana

Download page What's new highlights Features and enhancements AzureMonitor: Require default subscription for workspaces() template variable query. #35181, @joshhunt AzureMonitor: Use resource type...

Don't let Social Media Think for You

"Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of grey. You realise that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralysing." - Calvin A month ago I decided to try and get out of the reading slump I hav…

What is an NFT? Explained in 4 minutes!

NFT's are an innovation in the blockchain/cryptocurrency space that allows you to track who owns a particular item. Something tricky with digital files becau...

about sstatic.net

If your domain is www.example.org, you can host your static components on static.example.org. However, if you've already set cookies on the top-level domain example.org as opposed to www.example.org, then all the requests to static.example.org will include tho…

Conversation about containers | .NET Blog

Containers have becomes the most popular way to deploy cloud-based apps. It’s also one of the most common topics that web developers ask us about. We’ve been spending more and more effort on improving .NET for containers with each release. It’s now just assume…

A Project of One's Own

A few days ago, on the way home from school, my nine year old son told me he couldn't wait to get home to write more of the story he was working on. This made me as happy as anything I've heard him say — not just because he was excited about his story, but bec…

Release v1.0.0 · hashicorp/terraform

1.0.0 (June 08, 2021) Terraform v1.0 is an unusual release in that its primary focus is on stability, and it represents the culmination of several years of work in previous major releases to make s...

Clever vs Insightful Code • Hillel Wayne

“Don’t write clever code.” Why not? “Because it’s hard to understand.” People who say this think of clever code such as Duff’s Device: Duff's Device send(to, from, count) register short *to, *from; register count; { register n = (count + 7) / 8; switch (co…

Advancing in-datacenter critical environment infrastructure availability

There are many factors that can affect critical environment infrastructure availability—the reliability of the infrastructure building blocks, the controls during the datacenter construction stage, effective health monitoring and event detection schemes, a rob…

Learn TypeScript Basics in this Beginner's Guide

TypeScript has taken the development world by storm. No wonder it has over 15 million weekly downloads on npm. But what is TypeScript, and what do you need to know about it? In this article, I am going answer those questions. By the end you'll have a grasp of…

Performance Profiling | .NET Perf Counters Tool

Diagnostics PM Sagar Shetty continues taking us on a tour of the Visual Studio profiling tools. Today he shows how you can see visual .NET counters over time from within the Visual Studio profiler. L

Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification

Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily…

Le développeur toxique

J'ai reçu une notif LinkedIn. L'activité d'un ancien collègue. Techniquement, c'est un incroyable développeur. Humainement, c'est un incroyable connard.

Found at Goodwill: WebPad 1001 Prototype

I found this strange looking device at Goodwill yesterday. Originally, owing perhaps to the bright blue color, I thought it was some sort of educational or kids device. It had no branding on it, so…