20 August 2021

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Rethinking Best Practices – Will Gallego

Best practices aren’t universal and the use of the term without deeper consideration can be problematic. They’re straightforward, simplistic answers to difficult questions. Quick answers can at times work in our favor, a way to avoid cognitive overhead and set…

Mental health impacts of a Big Tech job

This blog dives into some deep thoughts about mental health. If you feel stuck and need help, please reach out to someone and get the help you need. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is avail…

Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism?

A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads—and its revenues went way up.

Pull requests · dotnet/runtime

.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps. - Pull requests · dotnet/runtime

Overcoming Bias : What is ‘Elite Overproduction’?

Elite overproduction … describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure. … a cause for social instability, as those left out of power feel aggrieved by thei…

HACKED: The CODE RED Buffer Overflow - How it Worked!

How does a buffer overflow work? Join retired Microsoft developer Dave Plummer as he explains how CODE RED was unleashed on the world and how it worked. Da...

Transactions and money? You are kidding me, right?

I needed to pay one of our suppliers. That supplier happens to be living in Europe, while Hibernating Rhinos is headquartered in Israel. That means that I ha...

Data protection controls with Cloudflare Browser Isolation

Starting today, your team can use Cloudflare’s Browser Isolation service to protect sensitive data inside the web browser. Administrators can define Zero Trust policies to control who can copy, paste, and print data in any web based application.

Here's another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt!

As the use of HTTPS continues to increase across the Web, we need more support from Certificate Authorities that issue the certificates to make it all work. I'm a huge fan of Let's Encrypt and what they're doing, but if we want to encrypt the entire Web, we ca…

Weekly Update 257

3D Printed SpaceX Rockets; MVP Kit; T-Mobile Breach; AT&T Breach; 1Password "Hello CISO"; IoT &U Shellies

How do I find out the size of the mouse cursor?

A customer wanted to know how to find out the size of the mouse cursor. They called Get­System­Metrics(SM_CXICON), but the value that was returned didn’t seem to be right. The SM_CXICON system metric gives you the size of “standard” icons, which is loosely cor…

#stitch with @kingsizekristin it gets better. Hang in there.

Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) has created a short video on TikTok with music Pennies from Heaven Louis Prima. | #stitch with @kingsizekristin it gets better. Hang in there.

Code Maze Weekly #90 - Code Maze

Issue #90 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# How to Create a new Solution and Projects using dotnet CLI [ardalis.com] A simple script to create a project and add it to the solution via dotnet CLI by Steve Sm…