How to Resolve ImageLoaderSourceHandler: Could Not Retrieve Image or Image Data Was Invalid Uri - Cool Coders
How to Resolve ImageLoaderSourceHandler : Could Not Retrieve Image or Image Data Was Invalid Uri. In Xamarin Forms
Branches: No assembly required
Last time, we started from the barebones Miniforth kernel, and implemented branches by writing additional primitive words in assembly. For pragmatic reasons, that is the road I will be pursuing further, but I noticed that it is also possible to implement branc…
Data notation in Clojure
Homoiconisity (code as a data structure) is one of the pillars of the Clojure language. It gives the extensibility and flexibility to the language.
Building my own web analytics tool
I’ve built a simple website analytics tool for this site, you can see it at /analytics. It has the following metrics: Page views per day, Unique IP addresses per day Views per page per day. Motivation Google Analytics Google Analytics felt like overkill. It h…
What I wish I knew before building a Flutter App
About 5 minutes to read. Posted on June 30, 2021 12:45
Will AI Replace Developers? GitHub Copilot Revives Existential Threat Angst -- Visual Studio Magazine
'Let's see the question we're all wondering ... can this replace our jobs?' said a Reddit reader commenting on the site's thread for GitHub Copilot, an 'AI pair programmer' unveiled as a technical preview this week.
Functional, Declarative Audio Applications
This is an article that has been a long time coming, and one that I'm really excited to finally write. Today I want to introduce a project that I've been thinking about and working on for years: Elementary Audio. Elementary is a JavaScript runtime for writing …
Why I wrote my own SQL query builder
This is the third article in a series about writing an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python. Here, I talk about why I decided to write my own, the alternatives I considered, why I didn't use an existing library, and how I knew it wouldn't become a maintena…
Bash aliases to make your life easier - Andrew Henke | Complete Technical Solutions
I spend a lot of time working on the bash command line, and I’ve come to highly value the availability of my custom set of shortcuts, preferences, and tricks, right at my fingertips. You know, all the stuff that lives in .bashrc, .profile, .vimrc, .git, etc. A…
A Journey into Mathematical Logic: Diophantus of Alexandria
Introduction In this series of blog posts, I will be discussing some of my favorite topics in math, It mostly falls under the domains of mathematical logic and computability theory. Diophantus of Alexandria Diophantus was a Greek mathematician that flourished …
10 Malicious Requests Against My Web Application
During a recent coding experiment/competition I had a (very rough) NodeJS app which I needed to deploy and host. Horror of horrors, I manually installed it onto a bare EC2 and pointed an Elastic-IP…
Why I created scrt.link - a tool to share sensitive information online
It all started with the idea to send private messages (in a fun way). Messages that don't persist. Think Snapchat, but without giving away your user data. As with all ideas, after some research you realize - it's all there on the web. It's the first ...
Asymmetric Bets - Rui Zhi Dong
I’ve been thinking about small things that can have a disproportionately large impact. For example, buying options against potential Black Swans. The cost of an option for an unlikely event occurring is generally small but if it happens, the upside can be huge…
Bugs Faster than the Speed of Thought
I got access to OpenAI’s GPT-3 last year and one of the first things I did was prompt it with a C++ interface struct and have it write the implementation. I was generally surprised by the res…
DevOps; a decade of confusion and frustration • Jan Harasym
What is “DevOps”? is a question I’ve heard a lot, often I’ve asked it implicitly to myself when reading job ads for “DevOps Engineers”. According to Patrick Debois, a Belgian “agile” consultant and former sysadmin who coined the term in January of... | Jan Har…
The First Hacker
It’s hard to ascribe “firsts” in history. Did Ada Lovelace write the first computer program? Does it count if it is a mechanical computer? Are Bombe and Tunny really computers in …
Principles.dev - Software Engineering Principles
An open-source community of Software Engineering Principles
OpenPGP Identity Structure [The Call of the Open Sidewalk]
An OpenPGP identity4) contains the information that you give to others to allow them to verify signed messages/files from you and encrypt messages/files to you. It often comes in the form of file.
Microsoft Eyes Visual Studio Accessibility: Focus Mode, Audio Clues, Whitespace Rendering, More -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft is seeking developer feedback on accessibility, seeking to go beyond 'good enough' with possible new features like focus mode, audio cues and more.
Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Software Estimation Is Hard. Do It Anyway. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
It’s well established that estimating software projects is hard. This is true, but you should learn how anyway.
Migrating social accounts to Azure AD B2C
How to add existing users with social accounts to Azure AD B2C using the Microsoft Graph API
Message Driven Architecture to DECOUPLE a Monolith
Message driven doesn't need to apply just to Microservices. You can apply a Message Driven Architecture to a Monolith to decouple concerns. Consuming Command...
.NET Foundation May/June 2021 Update
This is your .NET Foundation!
5 really bad coding practices that make other developers hate your code
Bad coding practices? That’s right – welcome to developers’ hell. Sit down, relax, and check out the 5 biggest programming no-no’s.
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Building dynamic applications with blazor
About the session -Blazor is a revolutionary single-page app framework for building interactive web apps with .NET Core. Underpinning Blazor's ability to cre...
Getting started with Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web apps makes it easier for developers to build and deploy their static apps to the cloud.In this episode, Anthony Chu joins the show to talk t...
The Catch Block #64 - Windows 11, GitHub Issues, and Why Remote Meetings Suck
Snap layouts, Teams integration, Android support; the new Windows looks pretty nice!
Yes, the network is hostile, even yours (or: how to lose your data in three steps)
NewsBlur (a personal news aggregator) suffered from a data breech / ransomware “attack”. I’m using the term “attack” here in quotes because this is the equiv...
Microsoft Releases First Preview of Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2022's first preview is now available , allowing developers to get their first hands-on look at the first 64-bit edition of the popular IDE. This preview primarily targets extension writers and those with large code bases, but adds notable new f…
Obsolete X509Certificate2.PrivateKey and PublicKey.Key. by vcsjones · Pull Request #54562 · dotnet/runtime
Closes #47977.
An Elixir Adoption Success Story
How a team that was new to Elixir over-delivered a big project in just three months.
2021 mid-year link clearance
It’s that time again. Another random link drop. “My sister and her friends have to give a series of lessons on the geological sciences to a class of primary school kids. So she asked me if I could make a spherical cake with all the layers of the Earth inside i…
W^X support by janvorli · Pull Request #54954 · dotnet/runtime
This change is the last part of enabling the W^X support. It adds the actual executable allocator that handles all double mapped memory allocations and creating the writeable mappings. The platform...
The Best USB Cable that Money Can Buy - Reversible+Kevlar
Dave demonstrates an amazing USB cable that is available in MicroUSB, MiniUSB, and Lightning formats. Links to cables on Amazon:MicroUSB: https://amzn.to/3d...
Cloudflare’s Network Doubles CPU Capacity and Expands Into Ten New Cities in Four New Countries
Cloudflare's global network is always expanding. We've recently added ten new cities and four new countries to our network.
LLVM Logo Redesign - LLVM Project / LLVM - LLVM Discussion Forums
Hi all, I have been working on a new logo for LLVM as a bit of a personal project. I speak to the rational below but I’ve finally arrived at something I’m happy with and it’d be great to begin getting some impressions / feedback from the wider community. Red…
YouLi - Travel Management Platform - We are hiring - Jobs
Built in Melbourne, we take care of the tech so our clients can focus on their trips. Join the team to build tools for creators of travel experiences. Check out our job listing.
.NET App Developer Links - 2021-06-30
The latest news and resources for .NET app developers.
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Let's make Visual Studio even more accessible together.
When I started leading the drive for accessibility in Visual Studio five years ago, I really didn’t understand the magnitude of what that meant. In all honesty, I hadn’t really thought about accessibility as more than keyboard and screen reader, but we’ve come…
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New Release: Fiddler Everywhere 2.0 Is Here!
Fiddler Everywhere 2.0 comes with new UI enhancements and new more powerful features!
Monsters Weekly 215 - How I'm going to replace you with an automation script - Azure Automate
Using Azure Automate you can run scheduled tasks inside of Azure to tune resources, do repetitive tasks or event replace entire people on your team. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/azure/automation/
Gain +10 Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio
So you’re ready to level up your debugging skills with Unity and Visual Studio? Check out our new video series in this playlist: Beginner Series: Intro to Visual Studio Tooling for Unity. This series focuses on common Unity troubleshooting scenarios and how yo…
What’s New for C# Nullable Reference Types in ReSharper and Rider 2021.2 EAP? | The .NET Tools Blog
With the language design finally stabilizing and less changes being made these days, we had the time to catch up on building some long-awaited features, and addressed some pitfalls that are unlike
Version Vector
Maintain a list of counters, one per cluster node, to detect concurrent updates
The Best Regex Trick
Describes a regular expressions technique to match a word or pattern except in certain contexts: excluding tags, ignoring contents, word blacklist.
C# Language Highlights: Null Coalescing Operator
The null coalescing operator in C# is a really handy feature. Learn how it works in this short video from James and Maira Useful Links ?? and ??= operators (C# reference)First steps with C#
What mRNA is Good For, And What It Maybe Isn’t | In the Pipeline
The huge success of the mRNA vaccination platform during the pandemic has set a lot of people to thinking about what comes next. Moderna and BioNTech, of course, have been thinking this way for quite some time. But Sanofi now says that they’ll be investing lar…
C# Language Highlights: Null Coalescing Operator
The null coalescing operator in C# is a really handy feature. Learn how it works in this short video from James and Maira Useful Links ?? and ??= operators (C# reference)First steps with C#
A First Look at GitHub Copilot - Can It Convert My Comments Into Code?
GitHub Copilot is available today as a new Visual Studio Code extension. It works wherever Visual Studio Code works — on your machine or in the cloud on GitH...
Obsolete useManagedSha1 and ProduceLegacyHmacValues by vcsjones · Pull Request #54886 · dotnet/runtime
Closes #53875