Releases 🔮 Magick.NET 8.2.0 has been released which is an image manipulation library for .NET. 📢 Windows App SDK 1.0.0-experimental has been releasedand Kevin Gallo attended the App Development Com…
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to compute the Wasserstein distance and explains why it is often preferable to alternative distance functions, used to measure the distance between two probability distributions in machine learning projects.
The stellar flares of red dwarfs are mostly directed from their poles, which is good news for potentially habitable planets.
On the (in)security of ElGamal in OpenPGP
Tips for using Slack in a work environment.
Social media can be addictive, but not as much as you think, and it doesn't help to label people as addicts. Here's what you need to know.
NoSQL databases were the future. MongoDB was the database for 'modern' web engineers and used by countless startups. What happened?
The term “API” gets thrown around a lot these days, but what does it mean? What can you use an API for? Do you have to have a developer on your tea...
I’ve come to be somewhat known as a “math guy” in creative coding. It’s one of my impostor syndrome items because I’m really not any kind of expert in the field. I took Algebra and some Precalculus…
Starting on August 21st, .NET Core 2.1 Docker container images will no longer be available on Docker Hub, but exclusively on Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). This change was previously announced with dotnet/dotnet-docker #2848. If you are reliant on .NET Co…
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Pairing is a fantastic way to quickly bounce ideas around, get help with something, or even as a tool for mentoring and growth. In recent times, most Git-based tools have adopted the Co-Authored-By trailer to identify when there are multiple authors to a co…
When you go to GitHub and see some other developers code, most of them are importing their components like this
Surprisingly basic iOS functionality is somehow worse than Android.
Alba is a small library to facilitate easier integration testing of web services built on the ASP.Net Core platform. It’s more or less a wrapper around the ASP.Net TestServer, but does a lot …
The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. - GitHub - minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings: The Big List of ...
Provides a strong typed .NET API for the Big List of Naughty Strings https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings - GitHub - SimonCropp/NaughtyStrings: Provides a strong typed .NET API ...
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Alda is a text-based programming language for music composition. It allows you to write and play back music using only a text editor and the command line.
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub.
These days, I'm an engineering manager at Reddit, where I lead the Advertiser Optimization team. I was recently invited by the /r/RedditEng team to share an interview problem I previously used to screen candidates. It was published here, but I've reposted it h…
One of the fun things about working with big data is that you can often hit weird limits with a system. I was personally trying to load every "common" single nucleotide polymorphism for the human...
This page is dedicated to the syndrome decoding problem for random binary linear codes, in the range of parameters similar to the Goppa-McEliece cryptosystem.
EF Core's new migration bundles provide build artifacts to deploy schema and data changes to your database as part of your DevOps pipeline.
Back in 2012, when the Roslyn compiler was still closes source and its early CTP stages, I blogged about using its C# scripting capabilities to wire up an ASP.NET Web API server in just a few lines of code, with minimal ceremony. In 2014 I built an OWIN-based …
In this weeks, show, Gerald Versluis joins the panel to give us a look at what's new and interesting in Xamarin Community Toolkit and where it's going next.F...
We can make our code a bit more concise by using interpolated strings ($) on const strings!
In this article, we will learn about loops and conditionals in Python. We will learn about for loop, while loop and if statement that helps us control the
In this post, I explore code which uses System.Text.Json source generators to optimise serialisation of types being indexed to Elasticsearch.
The documentation for the GetFullPathName function contains this dire warning: Multithreaded applications and shared library code should not use the GetFullPathName function and should avoid using relative path names. The current directory state written by …
In this post, I describe how to prevent rendering of a component after an event handler in an ASP.NET Core Blazor application.
Implementing a unit of work in Python can be an interesting challenge. Consider the following code:This is about as simple a code as possible, to associate a...
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Technical documentation is the key to marketing to web developers. Developer relations use documentation all the time as a way to connect to their community.
With Cloudflare for Teams, Administrators can allow their users to securely access applications with Cloudflare Access and explicitly block users from visiting various applications with Cloudflare Gateway.
Email is critical infrastructure and needs to be trustyworthy. Learn how to set up DKIM, SPF, and DMARC to secure your email domains.
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In this article, we are going to take a look at the Azure Storage Platform and learn how to work with Azure BLOB Storage.
In this article, we explore the fast and lightweight library FLAML. We apply it to Palmer Penguins Dataset and use its many features.
Frank is at it again with a new and awesome Bluetooth application, this time for the Apple Watch that displays his Onewheel information in real time! He breaks down the inspiration and how he got it working!
In this post I describe how to create parameterised tests using xUnit's [Theory], [InlineData], [ClassData], and [MemberData] attributes.
This article shows how to improve the security of an ASP.NET Core Razor Page application by adding security headers to all HTTP Razor Page responses. The security headers are added using the NetEsc…
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Serverless computing promises to make it "easier" to just write some code, sling it at the cloud and...
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An exciting feature is shipping with TypeScript 4.4. It has the name "Control Flow Analysis of Aliased Conditions" which is quite a mouthful. This post unpacks what this feature is, and demonstrates the contribution it makes to improving the readability of cod…
How to use SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to improve your domain's email security and limit spoofing - but written for humans.
This post demonstrates how to deploy Azure Static Web Apps using Bicep and Azure DevOps. It includes a workaround for the "Provider is invalid. Cannot change the Provider. Please detach your static site first if you wish to use to another deployment provider.…
Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 4.4! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 4.4, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet,
For many years, I’ve wanted to use real mathematical notation in computer programs for code that is mathematical in nature. The document UnicodeMath discusses this in some detail in Section 6. Using UnicodeMath in Programming Languages. Over the years, some ad…
This is real. OpenAI's Codex is phenomenal, and it clearly already knows the DOM layout of many popular websites. All I did was wrap it in a Chrome extension...
We decide to dig into the details of what makes a microservice and do we really understand them as Joe tells us why we really want microservices, Allen incorrectly answers the survey, and Michael breaks down in real time.