These macOS Monterey features won’t work on Intel Macs
Intel Macs' lack of an equivalent to the M1's Neural Engine may be to blame.
Release Preview Release v0.8.230902 · dotnet/try-convert
Disclaimer As with all previous releases, this is not a supported Microsoft product. See here for more info: https://github.com/dotnet/try-convert#support-policy Changelog Add support for -u|--upd...
Sequoia: Super Powering End-to-End Email Encryption in Mozilla Thunderbird
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
GPT-J-6B: 6B JAX-Based Transformer
Summary: We have released GPT-J-6B, 6B JAX-based (Mesh) Transformer LM (Github).GPT-J-6B performs nearly on par with 6.7B GPT-3 (or Curie) on various zero-shot down-streaming tasks.You can try out …
2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident (valid for an extra one second) - Incidents - Let's Encrypt Community Support
Let’s Encrypt is well-known for issuing certificates that are valid for only 90 days. Since the very first certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt’s infrastructure, those certificates have been given a 90 day validity period by our CA software by taking the issua…
Recordstore Day, every day. CDs, Vinyl, Merchandise, Signed Exclusives, Exclusive Vinyl Releases
Recordstore.co.uk. The UK's leading online record store. Exclusive Signed Records, Exclusive Coloured Vinyl Editions, the best in new music and the albums you love!
Shelly Dimmer 2 | Shelly Cloud
Using Opensource to get my next job
It’s a nice Monday morning and I’m all charged to code up our startup dreams. I’m surprised that we have an unusual meeting with the founder in the morning, hop into the Gmeet room and the mood is not good. The founder starts telling how much he has thought ab…
Charting Range Vectors in Prometheus - Satyajeet Kanetkar
In the previous blog post, we mentioned that Range Vectors cannot be charted.This blog post illustrates how we can work around the limitations and use Range ...
How Neil Gaiman kept control of the Sandman characters
8th June 2021 How can a creator keep control of the characters they create when the intellectual property in those characters are owned by others? In the DC and Marvel universes there are thousands…
Work Hard and Don't Burn Bridges • Vance Lucas
How the somewhat insignificant 6 months of work over 2 summers during an internship lead to an opportunity that transformed my career
How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
Introduction to Phoenix
Phoenix is the main web framework in the Elixir ecosystem. Learn how it works and what's special about it.
Single-Tenant Azure Logic Apps Goes GA: 'Integration Is Everything' -- Visual Studio Magazine
A new single-tenant version of Azure Logic Apps has reached general availability status, expanding the options for Microsoft's integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering that's built on a containerized runtime.
Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts · William Spies
This entry focuses on Wube Software's long-running Factorio Friday Facts; a seven-year labor of love documenting the creation of the titular video game.
Fastmail Accounts Blocked in Russia, Here's What We Know
Fastmail is the latest email provider to be blocked by Russia.
Most developers believe blockchain technology is a game changer - Stack Overflow Blog
But a little over one third disagree, viewing blockchain as mostly hype
Entity Framework Community Standup - Introducing EF Core Compiled Models
EF Core creates an internal model for entity types and their database mappings. This model is typically built once when the application starts. Starting with...
Secure login with iCloud Keychain verification codes - WWDC 2021 - Videos - Apple Developer
Learn how you can support on-device verification codes in your app or website for a more secure sign-in experience. We'll explore the...
Low Ceremony, High Value: A Tour of Minimal APIs in .NET 6
This post introduces Minimal APIs, a new way to write lightweight HTTP APIs in ASP.NET Core.
The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 8: Bit shifting and bitfield access | The Old New Thing
The ARM processor shows off its barrel shifter once again in its collection of bit shifting instructions. ; logical shift right lsr Rd, Rn, #imm5 ; Rd = Rn >> imm5 (unsigned) lsr Rd, Rn, Rm ; Rd = Rn >>
The Catch Block #61 - Fixing Git Problems, .NET In-Browser, and Lots of Quality Reads
Oh Shit, Git! can help you fix your Git problems. Plus: .NET in the browser, C# 10 features, and domain-driven refactoring.
Handling Failures in Message Driven Architecture
Many great libraries help to add resilience and fault tolerance by handling failures in a message driven architecture. However, it's not just as simple as ad...
Vivaldi 4.0 | Vivaldi Translate launches on desktop and Android
Translate websites on desktop or Android privately with Vivaldi 4.0! Our latest update also adds beta versions of Mail, Calendar, and Feed Reader.
Sponsor @martincostello on GitHub Sponsors
I'm a .NET developer who's been working on open source software for over 8 years.
Celebrating 7 Years of Project Galileo
Every June, we celebrate the anniversary of Project Galileo. This year, we are proud to celebrate seven years of protecting the most vulnerable groups on the Internet from cyberattacks.
ALPACA Attack
TLS is an internet standard to secure the communication between servers and clients on the internet, for example that of web servers, FTP servers, and Email servers. This is possible because TLS was designed to be application layer inde…
What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages | OnlineOrNot
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.
Releasing Windows 10 Build 19043.1052 (21H1) to Beta & Release Preview Channels
Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing 21H1 Build 19043.1052 (KB5003637) to the Beta Channel & Release Preview Channel for those Insiders who are on 21H1. See our blog post
Messing up a live demo, opps
Yesterday I had presented a webinar on using Machine Learning and Time Series in RavenDB. One of the things that I love about doing those webinars is that I ...
Async Streaming with EF Core and ASP.NET Core 6
Combining enhancements to .NET Core and EF Core, ASP.NET Core 6 has gained the ability to handle arbitrarily large JSON files via asynchronous streaming and the IAsyncEnumerable interface.
Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Logic App Standard
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Logic App Standard, the latest installment of their integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering. Logic App Standard is a new single-tenant offering allowing customers t…
Summary of June 8 outage
We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change. Here's a rundown of what happened, why, and what we're doing about it.
Maintaining ownership continuity of your user account's repositories
You can invite someone to manage your user owned repositories if you are not able to.
Kerckhoffs’s Law for Security Engineers
What can we learn from Kerckhoffs's law for all security engineering
Engineering a chess match against my brother
This is the story of me trying to win a game of chess against my brother. A single freaking game. What’s so special about it? Am I good at chess? Not at all. Did I improve at my game in the process? Also no. Is it a story about “the journey rather than the des…
Diversity in engineering teams
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What the Heck is a Data Mesh?!
I got sucked into a data mesh Twitter thread this weekend (it’s worth a read if you haven’t seen it). Data meshes have clearly struck a nerve. Some don’t understand them, while others believe they’r
How I Manage
This is intended to be a primer on how I manage teams. Much of it is inspired by the Netflix style of leadership and culture. The reason I decided to write this is that I have seen what really poor management can do to a team and it unwinds a
The Tyranny of the Faceless Other
There is a set of thoughts I always battle with when I sit to make something.
What I'm trying to do
There are currently three big things I'd like to do with my career. I'm describing them here so that I can connect with more people who are interested in the same things. I'll continually revise this document as my progress and goals change and as I get better…
Why You Should Not Worry If You Are Using Laravel
Someone wrote Why You Should Not Use Laravel and that Laravel is not PHP. I didn't agree so I had to write a counter argument....
Relationship First Management - Work & Life Notes
Below are few principles that summarize my today's prospective on management and role of relationships:
microsoft/fast-blazor
A lightweight wrapper around Microsoft's official FluentUI Web Components for use with .NET 5.0 Razor views. - microsoft/fast-blazor
The pedantic checklist for changing your data model in a web application
Let's say you have a web app with some database. In your database you have an Invoice model, where you store things you are charging your customers.
Implementing site navigation with the <details> element | Matt Joseph
Create a fast, responsive, clean, and accessible site navigation using HTML and CSS
Lessons from Reading 10,000 AngelList Applications
One of the first people I interviewed off of AngelList was a man from Lagos. He had created a website that displayed Manchester United scores, and it was beautiful. The layout was clean. The colors…
Llama Preview: Swift with ASP.NET Core
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Git Pull Request Deep Links in Visual Studio - Daily .NET Tips
Visual Studio now has integrated deep links for git pull request. git pull request deep link in visual studio allows to navigate to PR screen
Clean API Architecture 🔵 🟢 🔴
We started this 6-part series on how to build web APIs by introducing the variety of architectures that have been proposed or put into use by various languages and frameworks over the years. Among…
.NET June 2021 Updates – 5.0.7 and 3.1.16 | .NET Blog
Today, we are releasing the .NET June 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.7 , 3.1.16 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86,…
.NET Framework June 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates | .NET Blog
Today, we are releasing the June 2021 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security The February Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See February 2021 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest securit…
SQL Server transaction log architecture - Simple Talk
The transaction log file for a SQL Server database critical for for maintaining database integrity. Learn SQL Server transaction log architecture.
#JulyOT 2021 - 31 Days of IoT Content for Everyone
#JulyOT is back for 2021! Throughout the month of July, the IoT Cloud Advocacy team @ Microsoft will be sharing content and events put together by IoT enthusiasts from around the world. This includes content from community members, Microsoft employees, and c…
C# Generics Best Practices
C# Generics have been around since 2005, but a few new features have been added over the years, along with a bunch of built-in classes that leverage the feature. This article provides an overview of my latest Pluralsight course, which reviews proven best pract…
Learn What’s New in .NET Productivity | Visual Studio Blog
The .NET Productivity team (aka. Roslyn) continues to enhance your developer productivity with the latest tooling updates in Visual Studio 2019. In the last release, we listened to your feedback and have been hard at work improving the .NET developer experienc…
Must-have JetBrains Rider Plugins For ASP.NET Core Developers | The .NET Tools Blog
According to our most recent developer survey, ASP.NET Core is the most used technology the .NET ecosystem offers, with ASP.NET MVC following up in the third spot. It's not a surprise because the web
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Session Management in Node.js
A quick run-down of how to manage sessions in Node.js.
How Essential Are Azure Policies - Simple Talk
Policies in Azure are like Wally. They are there, but not obvious to find, hidden in the middle of many services, waiting for someone recognize their
Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
We're excited to announce Astro as a new way to build static websites and deliver lightning-fast performance without sacrificing a modern developer experience.
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?
Idea for #1759 - Resolving race in AUTH connection reconfigurations by NickCraver · Pull Request #1762 · StackExchange/StackExchange.Redis
Note: this is based on craver/exception-cleanup due to how Tim had branches - we'll switch to being against main once #1761 is in. See notes in #1759 as well. Overall what's happening here ...
Microsoft Previews Tye Tool for Microservices Development in VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft is previewing a new Visual Studio Code extension for working with the open source, experimental Tye project that's used for microservice and distributed application development.
How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight
By Alok Tiagi, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan, Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan
Tutorial: Host RESTful API with CORS - Azure App Service
Learn how Azure App Service helps you host your RESTful APIs with CORS support. App Service can host both front-end web apps and back end APIs.