Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising | Vivaldi Browser
This letter has been sent by the undersigned to EU & US regulators, to urge them to take action on banning surveillance-based ads, as recommended by the NCC.
The State of .NET on Mac OS - PHINUG 2021.07
This session is run by the Philippine .NET Users Group (https://meetup.com/phinug) that hosts meetups in Manila, Philippines.Meetup link: https://www.meet...
Machine Learning Community Standup - Model Explainability
Learn what model explainability is and why it's important to understand your model results.Community Links: https://www.theurlist.com/mlnet-standup-2021-07-0...
Synchronous vs Messaging: When to use which?
Not all communication is going to be synchronous request/response with HTTP/RPC or asynchronous messaging within a system. But how do you choose between Sync...
npm audit: Broken by Design
Found 99 vulnerabilities (84 moderately irrelevant, 15 highly irrelevant)
The Catch Block #65 - GitHub Copilot, Randomness, and Accessibility
GitHub Copilot causes a stir. Plus GraphQL, accessibility, randomness, and xoshiro.
How to Use Custom Comparers in NUnit
Occasionally, you may need to compare objects in an automated test. Perhaps you have a complex sort of comparison that you’d like to check, or adding the comparison logic to your test itself is making things a bit less readable (remember, tests get the same ca…
libimobiledevice · A cross-platform FOSS library written in C to communicate with iOS devices natively.
libimobiledevice is a software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV devices running iOS on Linux without the need for jailbreaking.
What Does My Site Cost: WPT 210707_AiDc36_6f01cdff93b8299725303f88e60febbc
This is the cost of the site based on data from the ITU, without any adjustment for purchasing power or relative affordability. Prices were collected from the operator with the largest marketshare in the country, using the least expensive plan with a (minimum)…
Diagnosing thread pool exhaustion issues in .NET Core apps
In this episode, Software Engineer, Mike Rousos, joins Rich to go through some ways to diagnose thread pool exhaustion in your .NET apps. Mike discusses and demos a collection of .NET CLI tools and te
On the perils of holding a lock across a coroutine suspension point, part 1: The set-up
Say you want to perform a bunch of asynchronous operations involving some object state, but also want to make sure that no other tasks access that object state at the same time. For synchronous code, you would use a traditional synchronization object like a mu…
Xavier Amatriain's answer to How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?
It has been over 10 years since the Netflix Prize finished, and I was not expecting to write a blog post about it at this point. However, just in the past couple of weeks I have found myself talking about it extensively both in the context of a Twitter thread …
Your First WinUI 3 App for Windows 11 | C# Tutorials Blog
Learn how to write your first Windows 11 desktop app using the WinUI 3 Library and the Windows App SDK (previously known as Project Reunion).
Transform Rules:"Requests, Transform and Roll Out!"
Perform URL Normalization, URL Rewriting, or Header Modification without having to write a line of code!
O3DE
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations <b>without any fees or commercial obligations</b>.<br><br><b>Try t…
Release v0.0.2 · MichalStrehovsky/bflat
Built-in support for the Sokol library that allows building standalone GFX/Audio apps with sizes starting at ~720 kB. See the samples in this repo. Fixes a user-reported issue preventing the use of...
Solid Principles with C# .NET Core - Easy to understand guide | Pro Code Guide
In this article we will learn about Solid Principles with C# .NET Core, why do we need them and when or where we should apply these principles in our code
Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware
Towards the end of May 2021 Starlink launched in Belgium so we were finally able to get our hands on a Dishy McFlatface. In this blog post we will cover some initial exploration of the hardware and we will explain how we dumped and extracted the firmware.Note …
Building a Cloud Native Lab at Home
Everyone loves a good home lab setup. The cloud is great, but buying and installing hardware in the comfort of your own home is something one can get addicted to Don't get me wrong - there are things I put straight into the cloud without even considering…
Monsters Weekly 216 - Zip Deploy for Azure Web Apps
Azure App Service makes it easy to deploy Web Apps from a Zip file. The Kudu portal provides a simple drag and drop UI for Zip deployments. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/deploy-z
Mocking 101: First Principles in Building Mock Objects
You should spend all the time on creating mock object that you have to, and no more. Here are three principles to help you decide how much you actually need.
A Brillant Copilot
The story of the week in software development is Github's Copilot, which promises to throw machine learning at autocomplete for a "smarter" experience. Notably, one of their examples highlights its ability to store currency values in a float. Or to generate no…
Rediscovering implicit casting
Revisited
Update- Beta program for SQL Server on Windows container is suspended.
As you may be aware, the SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta program began in 2017. It has remained in Beta mode meant for only test and development environment until now. Due to the existing ecosystem challenges and usage patterns we have decided to suspend…
5-minute breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication
This groundbreaking blood pressure exercise makes use of a hand-held device which provides resistance as the user breathes.