20 October 2021

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This is why I will never use (or recommend) a password manager

Do you use a password manager app to create, manage and store all of your passwords? If so, you need to know that all password managers are potentially insecure and any vulnerabilities that arise could put ALL of

Why Nano

A fast alternative to Bitcoin with 0 fees, this post dives into why Nano is different and how it achieves this.

Why you shouldn't leave your functions?

Beginners in programming and coding tend to define functions and don't call them. This article illustrates this phenomenon with a small story

10 ways to get the best out of OpenSCAD

OpenSCAD is an open-source CSG based script-only CAD package. As it’s script-based, it’s fantastic for parametric design and the files can be version controlled just like a software project.

Woody Zuill: Knowing When to Stop a Conversation Is Knowing When to Listen - Richard Kasperowski | High-Performance Teams | Core Protocols | Agile | Open Space Technology

Woody Zuill: Knowing When to Stop a Conversation Is Knowing When to Listen In this episode, Richard interviews Woody Zuill, an Agile coach well known for popularizing mob programming and the No Estimates movement. In this first part of the interview with Woo…

Rebooting Jasper

Jasper is a long running OSS passion project of mine. As it is now, Jasper is a command processing tool similar to Brighter or MassTransit that can be used as either an in memory mediator tool (lik…

Photography: Alone

I call this photo “Alone” that I took in San Diego, California of a young woman walking on the beach. More ocean & beach photography I have taken can be found here:

Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 Release

Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 is here and it’s HUGE! This release adds the new features below to Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 and adds the features from this previous blog post to Windows Terminal 1.11. Windows Terminal 1.11 will also be receiving the Default…

Analyzing Code for Issues in .NET 5

How do you find issues in your code? Many of these rules have been ingrained in my brain for the over 20 years I have been using .NET, but I still need to use tools to speed up this process or to f…

David McCarter (Microsoft MVP) (@realDotNetDave)

With the labor movement going on in the US, I'm wondering if software engineers ever thought we need a union? I know in the US, we make good money but there is more to happiness than that. In some countries, engineers are stuck in sweatshop-like conditions.

Photography: Whistleblower

I took this photo that I call Whistleblower when I was in a store in Solana Beach, California! There are lots of unique stores there! I hope you like it as much as I do.

Deploying PHP Applications to Azure App Service with Azure DevOps

This post is about deploying PHP applications to Azure App Service with Azure DevOps. Recently I had to deploy PHP application to Azure App Service. You can deploy it to Azure App Service using FTP, since there is no compilation steps required. If you’re using…

Troy HUNT (Have I Been Pwned) & Frédéric RIVAIN (Dashlane) - #S03EP22

📣 Nous vous proposons une série exceptionnelle d’épisodes de notre podcast autour des speakers du Tech.Rocks Summit 2021, la conférence faite par et pour les tech leaders les 9 et 10 décembre prochains.  Découvrez en plus sur leur parcours et sur ce qui les …

Learn to build great Progressive Web Apps

Just last week, more than 5000 people attended the very first online PWA Summit, and learned about topics such as bringing PWAs to app stores, new web capabilities, accessibility, offline authentication and much mo

Monsters Weekly 227 - Improved LINQ Methods in .NET 6

In a previous episode, we looked at some new LINQ methods coming to .NET 6 (Chunk, MinBy, MaxBy). There’s even more LINQ goodness coming to .NET 6 with helpful overloads to existing LINQ Methods (Firs

Zero Trust — Not a Buzzword

Over the last few years, Zero Trust, a term coined by Forrester, picked up a lot of steam. Zero Trust, in its core, is a network architecture and security framework focusing on not having a distinction between external and internal access environments, and nev…