17 June 2021

60 links · Thursday

Cryptographic shuffle | Brain on Fire

What if I needed to shuffle a list but couldn't hold the whole thing in memory? Or what if I didn't want to shuffle a list, but just traverse it in a shuffled manner? (That is, visit each element once and only once, in a randomized way.) What if I want…

The Meltdown of IRON

How Polygon’s first billion-dollar protocol unraveled.

Liquidity of skill | thesephist.com

Here is a mental model I share often with friends looking for job opportunities: your ability to get a job is the product of two quantities, the value of your skill and the liquidity of your skill.

Self-editing in meetings

Ever since the pandemic started and we've embraced being …

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 5 | .NET Blog

We are thrilled to release .NET 6 Preview 5. We’re now in the second-half of the .NET 6 release, and starting to see significant features coming together. A great example is .NET SDK Workloads, which is the foundation of our .NET unification vision and enables…

Your product is a joke - eesel

The rules that help make good improv comedy can surprisingly help make good product too. Let's run through interesting parallels between the two, and how you can apply some lessons from improv to build better product.

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 5 | ASP.NET Blog

.NET 6 Preview 5 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core. Here’s what’s new in this preview release: .NET Hot Reload updates for dotnet watch ASP.NET Core SPA templates updated to Angular 11 and React 17 Use Razor syntax in SV…

Start Your Own ISP

A practical guide to starting your own Internet Service Provider.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview

Join us in shaping our next major release of Visual Studio. Try our 64-bit Visual Studio that is faster and more reliable than ever.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available! | Visual Studio Blog

We’re excited to announce that the first preview release of Visual Studio 2022 is ready to install! This is the first release of a 64-bit Visual Studio and we’d love for you to download it, try it out, and join us in shaping the next major release of Visual St…

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Nuitka/Nuitka

Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Miles Davis

Inspired by: A beginner’s guide to modern art jazz Miles Davis (1926-1991) was a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He was one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz, and he …

bee-san/pyWhat

🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙‍♀️ - bee-san/pyWhat

Pro Tech Toolkit

You’ll have a hard time finding a phone, laptop, or game console you can’t open with our best-selling kit.

Microsoft Engineers Scott Hanselman and Cherita Ousley - Learn C# together!

This set of beginner tutorials will introduce you to the open source .NET platform and the C# programming language over 3 sessions! There’s a wonderful welcoming community out there that wants YOU to learn how to code! We’ll talk about where to start, what yo…

ECMAScript proposal: JSON modules

In this blog post, we examine the The ECMAScript proposal “JSON modules” (by Sven Sauleau, Daniel Ehrenberg, Myles Borins, and Dan Clark). It lets us import JSON data as if it were an ECMAScript module.

melbdotnet Meetup Group

We are the Melb․NET Meetup Group. We are based in Melbourne, Victoria, and hold meetings on the first Tuesday of each month around the technology of .NET, software development, and anything around it. Find out more about Melb․NET Meetups, including the next o…

Did we market Knative wrong?

It has been over two years since we announced Knative. As the project and its community is going strong, I think we made some mistakes in the early positioning and messaging of Knative prevented the project from being a go-to addon for Kubernetes...

Visual Studio 2019 16.11 Preview 2 | Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2019 16.11 preview 2 is available today! Version 16.11 focuses on enhancing the stability and security of Visual Studio 2019. For features included in this release see the 16.11 Preview 1 blog post or check out the release notes.

.NET Framework June 2021 Cumulative Update Preview | .NET Blog

Today, we are releasing the June 2021 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework for Windows 10, version 1809, Windows Server 2019, and Windows 10, version 1909. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements…

Getting Started with Graph API and Teams | Developer Support

Reed Robison extends a simple JavaScript Single-Page Application (SPA) to integrate with Teams using Microsoft Graph API. In my last post, I covered a basic introduction to Graph API using Graph Explorer and a developer tenant. This is the easiest way to get s…