12 July 2021

52 links · Monday

Topological Teleportation

A tutorial on how to teleport the topological qubit from one Kitaev chain onto another by applying nothing else but braiding operation between the domain edges.

Physical Minimalism

Stuff - Storage - Buying More - Throwing Away - Social Pressure - Happiness

Every company is a shit show

One of the things I continually find myself saying to friends, founders, and colleagues is that every single company is a shit show.* Founders, execs, and employees like to think that there’s a bet…

A Sombre Goodbye To Linux - Kev Quirk

I recently wrote about why I think complaints about the stability of Windows are unfounded. Since then, I've actually said goodbye to Linux.

If You Want To Transform IT, Start With Finance

tl;dr – ‘Money Flows Rule Everything Around Me’ When talking about IT transformation, we often we often talk about ‘culture’ being the problem in making change, but wh…

Manawyrm/fxIP

TCP/IP for Casio fx-9860 graphical calculators (with SLIP support, uIP stack) - Manawyrm/fxIP

Dead Startup Toys

Iconic startup disasters - now as collectible toys!

Evolution of An Async LINQ operator

From deferred execution to cancellation and ConfigureAwait(false), an async LINQ operator has some tricky parts to get correctly.

What is GraphQL?

GraphQL has become one of the buzzwords which most developers have heard of, but don't always understand the technology. At its core, GraphQL allows a client...

Why do smart pointers null out the wrapped pointer before destroying it?

When you null out a smart pointer type, the smart pointer type nulls out the old pointer before releasing it, rather than releasing the member and then setting it to null. (All source code samples has been simplified for expository purposes.)  

StackExchange/StackExchange.Metrics

A .NET client to send metrics to a variety of metrics backends - StackExchange/StackExchange.Metrics

The Potential Orwellian Horror of Central Bank Digital Currencies

As citizens around the world are confronted with the severe curtailment of political, economic and cultural freedoms associated with COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies (e.g., lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations and/or vaccine passports), new risks to economic f…

262: Your AI Code Copilot

GitHub Copilot is here, and Frank goes hands on with the new service that provides code recommendations directly in VS Code.

leonardochaia/dotnet-affected

.NET tool for determining which projects need to be built. Useful for large projects or monorepos. - leonardochaia/dotnet-affected

WriteFreely

Minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform.

Up & Running w/ OData in ASP.NET 6

Few months ago our .NET team announced a newer version of the .NET framework which continues the efforts to deliver the final parts of the .NET unifications plan that started with .NET 5. The newer version is .NET 6, which comes in with more powerful features,

API versioning extension with ASP.NET Core OData 8

Introduction API versioning can help evolving our APIs without changing or breaking the existing API services. URL segment, request header, and query string are three ways to achieve API versioning in ASP.NET Core application. ASP.NET Core OData 8, built upon …