18 August 2021

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30 Days of Starting Up

Documenting the First 30 Days of the Startup Journey, Project by Wenting Zhang, Designer & Entrepreneur Based in New York

Thinking of the children

Apple's new end-user handset scanning is likely the most powerful tool for surveillance authoritarianism ever conceived by humans. The most we can do for our children is to not go down this road.

My development philosophy

I was reading a book by Ashley Davis on bootstrapping microservices*, and at the beginning of the book, the author sums up his philosophy of development as:

How does PLONK work? Part 10: The Kate polynomial commitment scheme

In this tenth video, I explain how the Kate polynomial commitment scheme works. For more information about it, check this other blogpost I wrote. This polynomial commitment scheme will be useful to force the prover to commit to its polynomials before learning …

Autoruns v14.0, RDCMan v2.83, Procdump v10.11, dark theme updates, ProcExp v16.43 and Sysmon v13.24

Autoruns v14.0 Autoruns, a utility for monitoring startup items, is the latest Sysinternals tool to receive a UI overhaul including a dark theme.   RDCMan v2.83 This RDCMan update adds support for the Remote Desktop client from Windows 8.1+ and supports resiza…

Understanding the cost of C# delegates

Delegates are widely used in C# (and .NET, in general). In this post, Paulo will show the various forms to make you aware of their costs.

What's with all of the references to "dude" in the accessibility header files?

If you read the winuser.h header file, you’ll see that the comments refer to accessible objects as “dudes”. /* * For all EVENT_OBJECT events, * hwnd is the dude to Send the WM_GETOBJECT message to (unless NULL, * see above for system things) * ...

Zero Trust controls for your SaaS applications

With Access in front of your SaaS applications, you can build Zero Trust rules that determine who can reach your SaaS applications in the same place where your rules for self-hosted applications and network access live.

What is Blazor [1 of 11] | Beginner's Series to: Blazor

Blazor is a hot topic amongst the .NET Technical Community, but what is it and why should I be interested in it? Let's learn about what Blazor is and how you can use it to make your web applications

What’s Coming in React 18

React 18 looks promising: automatic state batching, new APIs and a new streaming server renderer—all battled-tested in advance. Let’s take a closer look.

Tips and Tricks when using Windows Package Manager

Windows Package Manager is an open-source tool that can help you install and manage software on your PC.  I want to share some tips and hints that I have found while using the tool.   Settings You can tweak some settings by typing winget settings.  This will o…

Discover and assess ASP.NET apps at-scale with Azure Migrate

Azure Migrate is your central place in the Azure portal that provides a unified experience to discover, assess, and migrate your servers, databases, and web apps to Azure. Today, we are announcing the preview of at-scale, agentless discovery, and assessment of…

DDD 2021: Call for Speakers/Papers

DDD is a free one day technical event for developers, run by volunteers, for the community. Having run in person for more than 10 years, and giving t...

What I Like About C# 9

Let’s look at some of the new features of C# 9, an example that uses a Person class and expands on it, and even some expected C# 10 features.

Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it)

There was a SEV review meeting once upon a time, and in it, we had reviewed some incident where something bad happened involving something that ran as root. I don't remember the finer points of that one any more, but the resident VP who ran the show wonder…

More. Helvetica. Now.

Helvetica Now Variable gives you over a million new Helvetica styles in one state-of-the-art font file (over two-and-a-half million with italics!). Use it as an extension of the Helvetica Now family or make custom-blends from its weights (Hairline to ExtraBlac…