18 June 2021

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Croc Full Plaintext Recovery - CVE-2021-31603

TL;DR This blog post describes various security vulnerabilities we found within the popular file sharing service croc. These vulnerabilities can be chained together to launch file interception attacks against croc’s relay server. With this practical attack, a …

When Scope Blows Up

In software engineering, there's an infamous but reoccurring situation, I think is relatable for every developer and project manager. You're never safe from it. It can assault you at any mom

Getting acquainted with Azure Synapse SQL Serverless

Orrin Edenfield dives into Azure Synapse SQL Serverless in this video series. Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Serverless is a distributed data processing/query service over data that lives in your Azure Data Lake. The service enables access to data through the fol…

The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 15: Miscellaneous instructions | The Old New Thing

There are far more ARM instructions than I’m going to cover here. I’ve skipped over the floating point instructions, the SIMD instructions, and some other specialty instructions that I haven’t yet seen come out of the compiler. Here are a few that are still in…

RavenDB 5.2 Features: Read only certificates

We are gearing up to a new release of RavenDB, and it is about time that I’ll start talking about the new features. I thought to start with what one of our m...

Code Maze Weekly #81 - Code Maze

Issue #81 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Caching Enum.ToString to improve performance [www.meziantou.net] How to make converting an enum value to a string using the ToString() less expensive by Gérald Ba…

The Document Culture of Amazon

Blog, newsletter, links, and whatever else seems like a good thing to keep publicly available.

organicmaps/organicmaps

🍃 Organic Maps is a better fork of MAPS.ME, an Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with lov...

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1

Microsoft today announced the first preview version of Visual Studio 2022. Here is the Official Blog post on the Preview announcement. You will be able to run Visual Studio 2022 side by side with your other Visual Studio installations.

Async Debugging Part 2

Isadora Rodopoulos, an engineer on the Visual Studio Debugging team, is back to continue our mini-series on debugging async code. Last week she provided some insights into how async code works. Today

Gossip Dissemination

Use random selection of nodes to pass on information to ensure it reaches all the nodes in the cluster without flooding the network

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io_uring is not an event system

I’ve been hearing about io_uring on and off for the last couple of years. Its a relatively new technology in Linux to allow high-performance IO with very few overheads.

Registration - TexasCyber

Texas Cyber Summit - International Cybersecurity Conference on October 1-2, 2021. Follow Texas Cyber Summit on Twitter @Texascyber and join our Discord Server at https://texascyber.com/discord

jongio/memealyzer

Memealyzer is an app built to demonstrate some the latest and greatest Azure tech to dev, debug, and deploy microservice applications. - jongio/memealyzer

3.0.1 Cancer

Mo and Scott share their thoughts and struggle in this cancer diary they started the day after Mo was diagnosed.

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…

Certified Pre-Owned

Active Directory Certificate Services has a lot of attack potential!

Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Honeycomb

Well, I’m leaving Microsoft after nearly 6 years. I’ll take a short bit of time off before my next job. I’m going to be joining the fine folks at Honeycomb to help contribute towards building an even better developer experience (and perhaps a bunch of other st…

QotD: The hair-dryer incident

The Hair Dryer Incident was probably the biggest dispute I’ve seen in the mental hospital where I work. Most of the time all the psychiatrists get along and have pretty much the same opinion about …

Rethinking Triplebyte

Triplebyte is pivoting, and we no longer require a quiz or interview to join. Engineers are almost completely unique as a labor force. There is far more demand for engineers than there is supply, and that makes engineers powerful in a way other professions are…