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July 2021
How the blockchain will break up Big Tech
The Big Tech trust-busting conversation has a shelf-life.
Turning Weather into Music with Dark Sky and Spotify for Tycho
Featuring designs by Tycho
Functional Programming JavaScript
Learn about the principal concepts of functional programming and how we can apply them in JavaScript applications.
3 million smiles during the pandemic - the retrospective
Retrospective of my attempt to make people smile during the COVID pandemic by performing magic tricks online for 32 weeks in a row.
Pure functions
This is the first post in a series I'm planning on functional programming fundamentals. We'll cover some of the basic concepts in functional programming and their benefits - all in F# of course! This post covers the definition of a pure function. Pure function…
Building Minimal APIs In .NET 6 - .NET Core Tutorials
Around 6-ish years ago, NodeJS really hit it’s peak in popularity. In part, it was because people had no choice but to learn Javascript because of the popularity of front end JS frameworks at the time, so why not learn a backend that uses Javascript too? But a…
Creating Static Web Apps With F# and Fable | LINQ to Fail
Some templates to make it easier to get started with F# and Static Web Apps
Three Editing Assignments From Hell
Martin Anderson, freelance writing and editing on artificial intelligence and machine learning
Get Off your Island. — Kelvin Obazz
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. - Jeanette Winterson In Part 3 of Money Heist - the award-winning Spanish heist drama, Tokyo and Rio relocate to the island of Guna Yala, Panama after their payoff from the Royal Mint of …
Sure, you could write all those Blazor HTTP calls yourself...
Writing boilerplate API client code is deadly dull and repetitive, Refit will do it for you
Are you ashamed to share your email address?
I created my email address when Gmail was still an invitation only platform, and I was 15 at that time. I created a short, somewhat funny, and hard to spell email address by using my initials and how my fiends used to call me at school. During that time, th…
HashWires: Range Proofs from Hash Functions | ZKProof Standards
In this two-part extended blog post I will discuss a modular approach to the design of efficient zero-knowledge proof systems that aims at maximizing the separation between the "information-theoretic" and the "cryptographic" ingredients.
FanFan
If you're a fan of fans, this app is for you!
Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship
Conservatives are being censoredClaiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end Big Tech censorship.” They say that the dominant tech platforms block legitimate speech w…
Episode 59 – bUnit, TDD, and Sci-fi with Egil Hansen – Coding After Work Podcast
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Bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics - mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
Weekly Update 252
Chrome’s Ongoing HTTPS Push; The Israeli Gov on Have I Been Pwned; The Internet of Things is a Complete Mess (and how to Fix It); Sponsored by AppTranahttps:...
A Solarpunk Manifesto (English) – ReDes – Regenerative Design
Many people have written about Solarpunk during the last 10+ years. Mostly after 2014.
Windows Insider Program
Become an Insider: be one of the first to explore new Windows features for you and your business or use the latest Windows SDK to build great apps.
Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute - blag
This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
Live C++ Coding in Dave's Garage: Audio Beat Detection for LED Effects
Retired Microsoft Windows engineer Davepl takes your questions as he codes live in the editor and deploys that code to an RGB LED glass art project he's curr...
Looking Glass - Looking Glass
Unlike network based streaming applications, Looking Glass does not use any form of compression or color space conversion, all frames are transferred to the viewer (client application) in 32-bit RGBA without any transformations or modifications. This is possib…
What Went Wrong? - ACM Queue
TFTC v1.0 is out now! news - TIE Fighter: Total Conversion (TFTC) mod for Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
Today after years in development, I'm pleased to announce that the TIE Fighter Total Conversion (TFTC) for X-Wing Alliance has finally been released!
About Let's Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. It is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). We give people the digital certificates they need in order to enable HTT…
Certbot
Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with EFF's Certbot, deploying Let's Encrypt certificates.
Live Hacking Demo with SECRET NSA Tools - Disassemble and Decompile with Dave!
LIVESTREAM w/ Dave as he hacks live and uses the (formerly) CLASSIFIED Ghidra tool from the NSA to decompile a series of C programs in order to analyze their...
Why we need to do more to reduce certificate lifetimes
In the early days of the encrypted web you could get certificates valid for any period of time. Long gone are those days and as more time goes by we realise just how much we need to be doing a lot more to greatly reduce the maximum validity period on
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Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) (RFC )
TLS - The Cloudflare Blog
Get the latest news on how products at Cloudflare are built, technologies used, and join the teams helping to build a better Internet. Then blog about it here.
Why HTTPS matters
HTTPS protects the integrity of your website, protects the privacy and security of your users, and is a prerequisite new and powerful web platform APIs.
Is TLS Fast Yet?
TLS has exactly one performance problem: it is not used widely enough. Everything else can be optimized.
Introducing C# 10: Global usings, example with ASP.NET Core 6
Introduction .NET 6 preview 6 has been released a few days ago, and the great...
Increasing HTTPS adoption
When a browser connects to websites over HTTPS (vs. HTTP), eavesdroppers and attackers on the network can't intercept or alter the data that...
I made Github Copilot but it only copies and pastes
Github Copilot but without the AI and just the functions...Download the extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Goel.clone-pilotCode (...