5 August 2021

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Episode 388 - The Art of the Possible with Power Platform

April Dunnam, one of the premier experts on the Power Platform, and now a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, talks to us about how it facilitates easy app development on Azure. She talks about the scenarios for these apps, the connector ecosystem and the underlying …

Coming Full Circle

This was initially posted as a thread on Twitter, but I decided to add some context and expand it more on the blog. I guess the universe has its own way of correcting itself Whenever someone asked me if I want to change one thing in life, or what is the thi…

Episode 18: Optimizing Cryptography for Microcontrollers!

Nadim talks with Peter Schwabe and Matthias Kannwischer about the considerations — both in terms of security and performance — when implementing cryptographic primitives for low-level and embedded platforms

Struggling first steps as a new senior

Recently I began my first steps as a senior software developer. Up to this date I’m preparing to just give in to my anxiety and hand over my resignation as I classify myself being unfit for m…

Bad Blood at the FTC

The FTC's challenge to the Illumina-Grail merger is misguided. The merger will speed Grail's cancer tests to market, improve their quality, and cut prices.

Top 30 projects 1/1/2021 - 7/1/2021

Data Rank,Label,Commits,PRs + Issues,Project,Size (square root of authors) 1,Linux,39,087,66,300,Linux (kernel.org) 3180 authors,56.4 2,Kubernetes,27,545,38,367,Kubernetes (kubernetes.io) 2486 authors,49.9 3,React,21,052,9,156,React (facebook.com) 1882 author…

Domain-Driven Refactoring: Defactoring and Pushing Behavior Down

Posts in this series: IntroProcedural BeginningsLong MethodsExtracting Domain ServicesDefactoring and Pushing Behavior DownIn the last post, we looked at our procedural handler and pulled behavior out that called to external services into its own domain servic…

JS Kid Pix 1.0.2021

JS Kid Pix / Kid Pix 1.0 was released in to the public domain and this is an HTML/JS reimplementation.

Organic Design or Planned Design?

Do you want all data Up To Date or The Best We Know right now?Do you want to Wait or Work?Do you want to Ask or Know?​Do you want action Soon or Now?Do you want action to be Global or Local?When bu…

Looking into Zig

I think that it was the Pragmatic Programmer that recommend that you should learn a new language a year. For me, in 2020 that was Rust. I read a bunch of boo...

Cloudflare Helps K-12s Go Back to School

Cloudflare is excited to announce our Back to School initiative that provides special K-12 Education pricing to help school districts stop cyber attacks while improving web performance.

OSS Power-Ups: Statiq | The .NET Tools Blog

Join us Wednesday, 25th August 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 CEST (11:00 AM - 12:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, OSS Power-Ups: Statiq, with Dave Glick. Register now and get a rem

Good Design is Imperfect Design Part 1: Honest Names - Domain Language

by Eric Evans Perfectionism is a pitfall. For those who, like me, love elegant design and see its utility, there is a slippery slope waiting when a satisfying design does not emerge in a reasonable time. It takes constant self-discipline to recognize this and …

Airyx OS

Airyx™ is a new open-source desktop operating system that aims to provide a similar experience and compatibiilty with macOS® on x86-64 sytems. It builds on the solid foundations of FreeBSD, existing open source packages in the same space, and new code to fill …

Tip 327 - How to use Azure Service Bus Queues

Modern applications are made up of many components and services. For instance, you might have a web application that users use to order items from a shop. The web application uses an API that runs in an Azure Function (opens new window) to process the order. T…

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Why Don’t Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?

Staying in a role builds valuable, company-specific domain knowledge. Leaving often results in a pay day. This article was originally published to Marker. Too soon When news broke that breakout star Regé-Jean Page was leaving Bridgerton after only one season, …