15 June 2021

46 links · Tuesday

Running .NET Core Apps on a Framework other than Compiled Version?

I get asked frequently about whether a lower version of .NET Core will run on a machine that only has a more recent version of the .NET Core runtime installed. The short answer is 'No it won't run' but there are a few nuances to this simple answer.

Europe's Software Problem - Bert Hubert's writings

Europe’s communication needs are currently almost exclusively delivered by Chinese hardware that connects us to US-based platforms. For a variety of reasons, this is not a good idea. As stated recently by Charles Michel, President of the European Council, “Int…

The 88x31 GIF Collection | Part 1

A collection of 3182 classic 88x31 buttons from the 1990’s, 2000’s, and today in GIF format. I try to update this page regularly. Feel free to copy buttons to your website, but avoid hot-linking if possible.

Model S Plaid: Sandy's Plan

Munro is looking to crowd source the Model S plaid through the sale of stickers. We will mail you a nice 2inx10in sticker! (for international please consider...

dotnet repl

Go get .NET 5 for Windows, Mac, or Linux, over at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/ ...

Migration of Bing’s Workflow Engine to .NET 5 | .NET Blog

Bing runs one of the world’s largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. This post discusses the journey and the work required to upgrade to .NET 5, including the significant performance gains we achieved. This application sits in…

Sorted integer compression

In the database field and information retrieval in general, there is a very common scenario. I have a list of (sorted) integers that I want to store, and I w...

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 12: Control transfer | The Old New Thing

The most basic control transfer is a direct relative branch. b label ; unconditional branch The reach of the relative branch is around ±16MB, with a compact 16-bit encoding available for branch targets within 2KB. The relative branch instruction can b…

How I teach Python on the Raspberry Pi 400 at the public library

After a long and tough year, I've been looking forward to once again sharing my love of Python and open source software with other people, especially middle and high school students. Before the pandemic, I co-wrote a grant to teach Python programming to middle…

Making async code run faster in C#

Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ChapsasSubBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick and in this video...

Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News

It’s been a decade since I blogged about the benefits of avoiding news. In that time I mostly followed the advice I gave. I kicked my addiction to The Daily Show in late 2016 after it switche…

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15 Universities Have Formed A Company That Looks A Lot Like A Patent Troll

Imagine this: a limited liability company (LLC) is formed, for the sole purpose of acquiring patents, including what are likely to be low-quality patents of suspect validity. Patents in hand, the LLC starts approaching high-tech companies and demanding licensi…

Blazor Day | Channel 9

The blazor day is the online event around Blazor technologies. Originally, this event was organized by three MVP friends, Adrien, Christophe, and Denis. Their objective of this event is to share their

Wider Tires Are Slower – Rene Herse Cycles

When we started to publish Bicycle Quarterly 15 years ago, it seemed that most of the technical aspects of bicycles were well-established. And yet, as we tested many different bikes, we started to question many of the things we had accepted as ‘facts.’ To cele…

Bye bye Travis CI | daniel.haxx.se

In the afternoon of October 17, 2013 we merged the first config file ever that would use Travis CI for the curl project using the nifty integration at GitHub. This was the actual introduction of the entire concept of building and testing the project on every c…

Dark Web Roundup: January 2021

Month of January, 2021 Malicious threat actors never stop, but neither do we. Risk Based Security’s Cyber Risk Analytics research team is dedicated to gathering the latest in data breach intelligence. Here is our round up of what we’ve seen at the start of …