2 September 2021

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Money Ain't A Thang

Ethereum Ecosystem analytics by and for the community. Explore and share data from Ethereum Mainnet, Matic, Optimism and xDai for free.

Noteflakes: How I Write Code: Pen & Paper

I am a self taught programmer. I first started programming as a kid, and have never bothered to formally study this discipline. To me, programming is first of all a pleasant creative pursuit. It’s a bit like putting together and taking apart all kinds of machi…

BPFTrace & Julia: An introduction to UProbes

BPFTrace is an observability tool inspired by DTrace for Linux. It uses the eBPF infrastructure in the Linux kernel to implemented lightweight tracing of the kernel and applications. This note is written from a Linux perspective, but much of this should hold o…

Improving the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm

In our opinion, the goal of Hacker News (HN) is to find the highest quality submissions (according to its community) and show them on the front-page. While the current ranking algorithm seems to meet this requirement at first glance, we identified two inherent…

Start Your Day with Positive Intention — BRNSFT

If you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, one thing you can do is add positive intention to your daily routine. Starting your day with positive intentions can help set the tone for a lot of amazing things to come.

O.MG Cable - * to USB-A

To get a cable like this, you used to need a million dollar budget or to find a guy named MG at DEFCON. But Hak5 teamed up with MG to allow more people access to this previously clandestine attack hardware. Every O.MG Cable is hand made and tailored to look an…

Let's Learn .NET: Razor Pages

Together, we will walk through the fundamentals of building web applications with Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core. Razor Pages make it easy to build web standard...

Quick Tunnels: Anytime, Anywhere

Cloudflare Tunnel now supports a free version that includes all the latest features and does not require any onboarding to Cloudflare. With today’s change, you can begin experimenting with Tunnel in five minutes or less.

Workshop Spotlight: GitHub

We’re always working to help our customers improve their development processes and GitHub has become a popular focus in these learning cycles with Developer Support. If you are looking to build expertise with GitHub, there is no shortage of resources available…

www.opendesktop.org

Libre Cloud Services for users and developers. Keep your personal data save, start new projects, share apps, files and products, communicate freely with friends and colleagues.

Deconstructing Azure PowerShell APIs with Fiddler

Reed Robison shows how to deconstruct Azure PowerShell operations to understand how the underlying REST calls work. In my previous post, I talked about how Graph Explorer and Fiddler can be helpful tools when working with REST APIs. Both tools do a good job of…

How to study effectively | Psyche Guides

Forget cramming, ditch the highlighter, and stop passively rereading. The psychology of learning offers better tactics

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Windows Server 2022 now generally available—delivers innovation in security, hybrid, and containers - Microsoft Windows Server Blog

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Windows Server 2022. It’s a big step forward for the operating system that is trusted by major corporations and small businesses alike to run their business and mission-critical workloads.  With Windows Serv…

Text Analytics for Extractive Summarization

We’re delighted to announce that Text Analytics now supports extractive summarization! In general, there are two approaches for automatic text summarization: extractive and abstractive. The Text Analytics API provides extractive summarization starting in versi…

IntelliSense for Hosted C# Script

We recently announced support for a local editing experience for Abbot skills that includes IntelliSense for C# Skills in Visual Studio Code. This post digs behind the scenes to talk about how that works.

Windows Server 2022 Now Generally Available

Overview Today we announced the General Availability (GA) of Windows Server 2022. It is such an exciting milestone for the Windows Server community and the broader ecosystem. As someone who shipped the last few Windows Server releases and have been working wit…

AI movie posters

Guess the movie based on an AI’s visual interpretation of the plot.

Moiré no more

Low-traffic (once every 50 days) newsletter with keyboard stories and updates on the progress of the book about the history of keyboards. Subscribe and get instant access to cool secret stuff! Posts by Marcin Wichary.

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