The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”
Once upon a time, during the dawn of the internet era, early web products often came from college dudes. The dudes were almost always wealthy and well-connected, but they weren’t usually mark…
Journaling through a Pandemic on unwiredcouch.com
Humans of Microsoft S02E01: Abel Wang
A few weeks before Abel Wang's passing, he accepted my invitation to talk about his relocation from the Midwest to Redmond, his favorite software project ever, and his attitude towards life and his health issues.
Unix and Microservice Platforms
"Code the Perimeter" is the key insight of Kevin Greer's fabulous 2016 analysis of why Unix beat Multics and what it means for Google's mission to organize the world's information. If you haven't seen it, it's well worth 7 minutes of your time. In the 1960s, i…
What we lost (a paean, perhaps, to RSS) – mattmower.com
Recently Dave Winer has been posting thoughts about using tags (some of us old-timers used to call them ‘topics’) in his blog. This is more than a little bit poignant because I have a history here, and Dave started it with Radio Userland and RSS.
The problem with Flask async views and async globals — sethmlarson.dev
Starting in v2.0 Flask has added async views which allow using async and await within a view function. This allows you to use other async APIs when building a web application with Flask. If you're...
Microsoft Graph .NET SDK v4 now generally available with streamlined authentication and more - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
New features and improvements simplify building high-quality, efficient and resilient applications accessing Microsoft Graph.
Spreadsheet Formulas for Personal Finance
Aug 2021
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive
For years, I’ve had a private term I’ve used with my family. To give a few examples of its use:
My Custom Stream Deck Toolkit
Office Reopening | The Misnamed Doctrine
There are many recent news articles that discuss post-pandemic office reopening plans:
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
The mental minefield of capex and opex
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit - Monthly Project Review
Donate to General Donations
We’re here for our girls, their families, and our communities during this challenging time. Join us by making a gift today to ensure that girls continue to have access to our educational experiences, programming and our incredible sisterhood. Because when you …
The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones
An essay about life pre-iPhone addiction, why you're wrong about Salt Bae, an Indian butter chicken Instant Pot adventure, and a new Hell & Wellness pod discussing Marie Kondo.
PCS multiproofs using random evaluation
Multiproof scheme for polynomial commitments
Hot Visual Reload Studio 2022: A Curated Selection
Your friendly household guide to the future of Visual Studio.David mainly wants to show you the Hot Reload feature in Visual Studio because he thinks it's aw...
GitHub - andrewlock/NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders: Small package to allow adding security headers to ASP.NET Core websites
Small package to allow adding security headers to ASP.NET Core websites - GitHub - andrewlock/NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders: Small package to allow adding security headers to ASP.NET Core...
[ANNOUNCE] WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
Zoom users to get $15 or $25 each in proposed settlement of class-action lawsuit.
Desktop Community Standup - Updates and Q&A
Join us for a few quick updates and bring your questions, because largely this standup will be focused on Q&A!Featuring: Olia Gavrysh (@oliagavrysh), Dmitry ...
Spiral Dynamics Optimization with Python -- Visual Studio Magazine
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains how to implement a geometry-inspired optimization technique called spiral dynamics optimization (SDO), an alternative to Calculus-based techniques that may reach their limits with huge neural networks.
Workshop Spotlight: Secure DevOps - Application Security Principles and Practices
Reed Robison spotlights the Secure DevOps: Application Security Principles and Practices Workshop. Developers juggle so many technologies that it’s incredibly difficult to consider all the security ramifications of the code they build. Almost every customer I …
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 194 - August 1, 2021 | Jendrik Illner
3D Programmer
Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Special Guest: Dave Brock
Join me live on Saturday, August 14th, 2021 at 10:00 PST on C# Corner Live for season 2, show #33 where I will interview Dave Brock, Senior Software Engineer and Microsoft MVP.
Full-Time Open Source - CoRecursive Podcast
Today’s show: How to quit your job and work on open source full time. This story has it all -- balancing side projects and full-time employment, building up enough supports to leave your job, and explaining quitting to your family and friends.And also: what do…
TODO apps are meant for robots
In my lifetime I’ve tried a dozen todo apps. In the beginning they all seem different, novel and special
Late Career Change into Tech with Kyla Gregory
Kyla Gregory talks about her experience in making a late-career change into Tech.Follow Kyla on Twitter - https://twitter.com/kyla_Christin_e00:00 - Intro02:...
Bite-Size C# 10 - File-Level Namespaces
Let's reduce clutter using file-level namespaces, a feature of C# 10.
Upload files with drag & drop or paste from clipboard in Blazor - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to upload a file using drag and drop or by pasting an image stored in the clipboard in an ASP.NET Core Blazor application.
Modeling social network connection with RavenDB
I got an interesting scenario that I thought would make for a good blog post. Given a social network similar to Twitter, how would you deal with the social a...
How can I figure out which object is being hosted in an instance of dllhost?
We saw some time ago that the dllhost.exe process goes by the name COM Surrogate and is used when a COM object is configured to run in a separate process. If you have found an instance of the dllhost.exe process, how can you figure out which COM object is runn…
Steam Survey Shows Linux Marketshare Hitting 1.0%
Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.
GitHub - Xabaril/AspNetCore.Hashids: Not predictable ids library for ASP.NET Core APIs.
Not predictable ids library for ASP.NET Core APIs. - GitHub - Xabaril/AspNetCore.Hashids: Not predictable ids library for ASP.NET Core APIs.
v0.9.4 - patch 2 release notes
Square, Inc. Announces Plans to Acquire Afterpay, Strengthening and Enabling Further Integration Between its Seller and Cash App Ecosystems
Aug 01, 2021
Helping Keep Governments Safe and Secure
Cloudflare and Accenture Federal Services (AFS) have been selected to deliver a joint solution to help the United States Government defend against cybersecurity attacks.
Making an OS (x86) Chapter 4 - Stack, Functions, Segmentation
Corrections:- Missing ; at 2:30Brilliant piece of literature: https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567
[Last Week in .NET #53] – Requiem for a use case
🕵️♀️ Using Secrets in .NET Core Console Applications Console applications remain one of the least documented parts of the .NET Core experience (compared to ASP.NET), and I’m always happy to …
Extracting objects recursively with jq
The Algolia-powered Hacker News API returns nested comment threads that look like this: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/27941108 (For this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941108) ```json { "id": 27941108, "created_at": "2021-07-24T1…
265: Robot Engineer turned Program Manager with Maddy Leger
James sits down with Maddy Leger, Program Manager for .NET MAUI and Xamarin tooling at Microsoft, to hear about her journey from her first PC to working at one of the world's largest tech companies.
What's New (so far!) in C# 10 & .NET 6 - PHINUG 2021.08
This session is run by the Philippine .NET Users Group (https://meetup.com/phinug) that hosts meetups in Manila, Philippines.https://www.meetup.com/phinug...
PyTorch Tutorial for Beginners - Building Neural Networks
In this tutorial, we showcase one example of building neural network with Pytorch and explore how we can build a simple deep learning system.
Live: How to start with FbNetExternalEngine
2 Aug 2021 1 mins Livestream
Azure Active Directory B2C with Blazor WebAssembly Hosted Apps
In this article, we are going to learn how to use Azure Active Directory B2C to secure our Blazor WebAssembly Hosted application
Securing an Angular app which uses multiple identity providers
Sometimes Angular applications are required to authenticate against multiple identity providers. This blog post shows how to implement an Angular SPA which authenticates using Auth0 for one identit…
fsharp-presentations/on-teaching-operators.md at master · dsyme/fsharp-presentations
F# presentations and notes. Contribute to dsyme/fsharp-presentations development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Serverless Sliding Scale
Mark Heath's Development Blog
.NET Conf: Focus on F#
Join us for this free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and Microsoft teams working on and using the F# language. Learn mor...
Specification Pattern vs Always-Valid Domain Model
There’s an interesting controversy between two DDD topics: the Specification pattern and the Always-Valid domain model.
Using console.log() debugging in Visual Studio Code
Using the new in-built JavaScript debugger in Visual Studio code you can use the browser developer tools Console right inside the editor.
TypeScript, abstract classes, and constructors | I CAN MAKE THIS WORK
TypeScript has the ability to define classes as abstract. This means they cannot be instantiated directly, only non-abstract subclasses can be. Let's take a look at what this means when it comes to constructor usage.
CoreWCF 0.2.0 Release
Today we’re releasing our second release of CoreWCF, version 0.2.0. We have a few new features in this release, so I’m going to give a brief summary of what they are and how to use them.
.NET Infographics
Here are (almost) all of the infographics that I've made on .NET (C# and F#). If you like them, then consider buying me a coffee: If you plan to use a graphic then remember to credit the author, please provide a link to my Twitter and other socials.
How I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
Debounce a STOP switch in C++: Live with Dave in the Source Code Editor!
Dave reveals how the simple ON/OFF switch that we take for granted can be far more complicated than you first thought! He takes you into the C++ VSCCode edi...
2021 State of the Developer Ecosystem
We dive into JetBrains' findings after they recently released their State of the Developer Ecosystem for 2021 while Michael has the open down pat, Joe wants the old open back, and Allen stopped using the command line.
Wormhole - Simple, private file sharing
Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.