31 August 2021

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Tor is a Great SysAdmin Tool

Using Tor to aid various system administration tasks, including checking firewall rules, bypassing internal network restrictions and connecting to remote systems that are behind NAT/CGNAT.

Unproblematize

I’ve got 999 problems.

About my new watch: Samsung Galaxy Watch 4

In response to my teasing post about my new Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, James suggested I share my experience with the watch on my blog and asked what my reasons are for wearing a smartwatch. So here is my answer.

carltheperson

08-31-2021 Carl Riis

How Come There Isn't An Adam Neumann Effect? - Gotham Gal

Remember the Jackson 5 lyric, “One Bad Apple Can’t Spoil the Whole Bunch”? Yet investors still look at female scientists building new technologies, wondering if they are like Elizabeth Holmes. You would have thought we were past that, but it appears we are not…

GitHub - jsakamoto/FindRazorSourceFile: This is a set of NuGet packages that makes your Blazor apps display the source .razor file name that generated the HTML element under the mouse cursor when entering the Ctrl + Shift + F hotkeys.

This is a set of NuGet packages that makes your Blazor apps display the source .razor file name that generated the HTML element under the mouse cursor when entering the Ctrl + Shift + F hotkeys. - ...

When I used to collect computer viruses

Today I was having a lecture about information security and information security law. I just started the module and this is the third lecture about the topic. And todays lecture was about different IT threats that an health information system would face. The l…

Sleep lessons for founders and CEOs (also investors and boards)

In the current capital-rich environment where anything seems possible, I’ve been slipping into a habit of wondering how previous companies would have worked out had we started them today. Aft…

The Deployment Fidelity Problem - Tyler Cipriani

The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a good idea, how do we deliver it to users as quickly as possible?

The Mini Index - The Mini Index

The Mini Index is a crowd-sourced index of various minis, terrain tiles, and scatter terrain across different websites for use with tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons.

Glean | Glean

System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code

C# Language Highlights: Properties

Properties in C# is such a fundamental feature. We’ll learn all about them in this short video from James and Jayme Useful Links Properties (C# Programming Guide)Properties (C# Concepts)First steps

What are the consequences of increasing the per-process GDI handle limit?

A customer had a line-of-business application that frequently bumped into the default limit of 10,000 GDI handles per process. The wanted to know if it was safe to raise the limit. Increasing the per-process GDI handle limit means that a single process can con…

Notes on the Seattle Symphony's expanded concert schedule for 2021–2022 season

In June, the Seattle Symphony announced that it was expanding its 2021–2022 season to include a full slate of concerts. The original March announcement had a reduced schedule due to uncertainty over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. I have retroactively updated m…

The dot

Have you tried github.dev yet? Just press the dot key@GitHub

When a hobby becomes a job

The line between work and leisure can be a fine one.

Benefits of pure functions

Pure function benefits In the last post in this series, pure functions were defined as functions that are detemerministic and have no side effects. I demonstrated that this means that pure functions are simpler than impure ones (they have only direct input and…

Learn to build applications with F#

Want to learn how to write write succinct, robust, and performant code with F#? Here's everything you need to get started today!

Optimizing toolbars for your workflow

Visual Studio is the application I use the most on any given workday, and I consider it my virtual home. It’s where I’m comfortable, productive, excited, frustrated, and happy. I love Visual Studio. Over the years, I’ve learned how to optimize it for my variou…

Facebook is the AOL of 2021 | ZDNet

The 1990s had a word for being trapped inside a manipulative notion of human contact: AOL. Facebook and its ilk are the rebirth of that limited vision.