10 August 2021

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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7

We are delighted to release .NET 6 Preview 7. It is the last preview before we enter the (two) Release Candidate (RC) period. The team has been burning the midnight oil and the candle at both ends getting the last set of features in before we slow the speed do…

Preview Features in .NET 6 - Generic Math

If you’ve ever wanted to use operators with generic types or thought that interfaces could be improved by supporting the ability to define static methods as part of their contract, then this blog post is for you. With .NET 6 we will be shipping a preview of th…

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 7

.NET 6 Preview 7 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core. Here’s what’s new in this preview release: Parity with existing experiences for minimal APIs Added IResult implementations for producing common HTTP responses Support R…

Creating Pull Request that “Scales”

As a software engineer, it is our job to solve problems. And mainly we solve problem by coding. In this days, introducing code changes can…

Comparing Low-Code Tools as a Developer

When first hearing of the concept of “no-code” I have to admit I cringed a bit. The implication that a mere mortal client could combine services without ever getting a dev involved seemed cute and definitely wouldn’t lead to anything genuinely valuable. I come…

A Tale of Two Copies

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That's when I hit a performance mystery that sent me down a multi-day rabbit hole of adventure. I was writing some code to take some entries, append them into a fixed size in-memory buffer, and then flush th…

Engineering luck - Miroslav Bekyarov

Life is filled with random events and often one small coincidence can snowball into a chain of opportunities and shortcuts in life.  Unfortunately, those happy coincidences are not distributed evenly, some people enjoy them more than others. They happen to bum…

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Types of messages in an Event Driven Architecture

An event-driven architecture is based on the idea of message passing as the primary (if not only) means of communication between services and systems. Last time I talked about the anatomy of an eve…

Logging in Unity

In this article, we will see how you can enable logging for unhandled exceptions and debug messages in a Unity application.

Discussions · github/feedback

Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and general product feedback. - Discussions · github/feedback

Three fundamental flaws of SIMD – Bits'n'Bites

According to Flynn’s taxonomy SIMD refers to a computer architecture that can process multiple data streams with a single instruction (i.e. “Single Instruction stream, Multiple Data streams”). There are different taxonomies, and within those several different …

The World of CSS Transforms

The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.

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Blazor WebAssembly by Example: A project-based guide to building web apps with .NET, Blazor WebAssembly, and C#: Wright, Toi B., Hanselman, Scott: 9781800567511: Amazon.com: Books

Blazor WebAssembly by Example: A project-based guide to building web apps with .NET, Blazor WebAssembly, and C# [Wright, Toi B., Hanselman, Scott] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Blazor WebAssembly by Example: A project-based guide to buil…

Hiring Managers, you’re doing it wrong!

I’ve officially said “goodbye” to tech recruitment in July 2020. During those fantastic 9+ years, I worked on many hiring projects: from bringing completely new disciplines to the…

Is Elon Musk Killing People?

Elon has a portfolio of the most ambitious tech companies to have ever existed. But is he running them in a way that could be causing harm to people? Tesla F...