1 November 2021

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Stop playing the SEO game: find your sources of influence

SEO - Search Engine Optimization - was always my favorite digital marketing tactic. After talking to Rand Fishkin (founder of Moz and SparkToro) and doing some introspection, I am ready to question the value of SEO in 2021 and beyond.

Inflationary Hikes - Fed Guy

The shift away from money market funding to deposit funding dampens the effect of policy and may even turn rate hikes inflationary.

The Data Behind New York's Increasingly Dirty Electricity Peaks

For many New Yorkers, the hottest days of the summer are ones of refuge: staying indoors with our air conditioners on full-blast in an attempt to escape the heat. While flicking our ACs on during a hot day seems like an entirely mundane aspect of life, behind …

Writing Tips for New Engineering Managers

Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple style reflects a simple mind. Actually a simple style is the result of hard work and hard thinking

How I Built Burplist For Free

Talks about engineering decisions and thought processes of creating Burplist, a fast and simple search engine for craft beers in Singapore.

COP26.org: A quick sustainability check

With COP26 about to take place in Glasgow, let's take a quick look at how the COP26 homepage holds up in terms digital sustainability. What's its carbon footprint, and can it be improved?

The Unified .NET 6

There were many lessons learned as the .NET team released .NET 5 during the lockdown with an all-remote team. Rich shows how those lessons carried into ...

When Pwned Passwords Bloom!

I recently wrote about Bloom Filters, the hugely space efficient, probabilistic data structures, and how great they can be. I wanted to create a demonstration of just how useful they could be and thought of a demo using the Pwned Passwords data from Have I Bee…

#Chatcontrol Explained

The EU is planning to allow messenger and e-mail providers to indiscriminately scan and detect all private communication for suspicious content that might indicate child pornography or grooming. This so-called 'chatcontrol' violates fundamental ri...

I'm A Méagan

Show the world that you love to eat meat with this I'm A Méagan custom designs.

Microsoft rolling out Visio to Microsoft 365 Commercial users worldwide - MSPoweruser

Microsoft today announced the roll out of Microsoft Visio web app to Microsoft 365 Commercial users worldwide. Microsoft expects to complete the rollout by end of January 2022. Rollout will continue to Government Community Cloud (GCC), GCC-High, and other sove…

.NET R&D Digest (October, 2021)

November is here, and in world of .NET it means – .NET Conf and a lot of new and interesting stuff to watch and learn. And one of such things (I hope) – is a new issue of .NET R&D D…

.NET 6 Launches at .NET Conf, November 9-11

.NET Conf is a free, three-day, virtual developer event that celebrates the major releases of the .NET development platform. This year .NET 6 launches at .NET Conf 2021. Come celebrate and learn about the new release.

Consensus cheat sheet

  Crash Omission Byzantine Synchrony $f<n$ is possible $f+1$ round executions must exist $f \geq n/2$ is impossible $f<n/2$ possible with PKI / PoW $f \geq n/3$ impossible without PKI/PoW Partial Synchrony $f \geq n/2$ is impossible $f<n/2$ is possibl…

Why do all this coroutine stuff if you can just use std::future?

One of my colleagues reacted to my series on creating custom coroutines by asking, “Why did you bother with this simple_task custom coroutine? Why not just use std::future objects produced by std::async? You can co_await a std::future.” Okay, first of all,

The Ten Second Autism Test

Dave Describes the 10 Second Autism Test, and reveals a secret...Amazon Link to eBook and Sample: https://amzn.to/2Y322HFFor more, head over to the Autistic...

Statistic Estimators · Anthony Lloyd

Running high performance, fixed low memory estimators for Quantile, Quartiles, Quantiles, Histogram, Central/Standard Moments.

An Update on Our Outage - Roblox Blog

We recently experienced an extended outage across our platform. Learn more about the outage and steps taken to address it.

Collection Performance: Looping Over Other Collection Types

There are many other collection types in .NET. The following types were used for these benchmarks: Collection, ConcurrentHashSet , Dictionary, DistinctBlockingCollection , DistinctConcurrentBag , F…

278: Inside .NET Hot Reload

Frank recently dove into the inner workings of .NET Hot Reload and came out with a bunch of fun facts of how ti works! We discuss.

GitHub - niespodd/browser-fingerprinting: Analysis of Bot Protection systems with available countermeasures 🚿. How to defeat anti-bot system 👻 and get around browser fingerprinting scripts 🕵️‍♂️ when scraping the web?

Analysis of Bot Protection systems with available countermeasures 🚿. How to defeat anti-bot system 👻 and get around browser fingerprinting scripts 🕵️‍♂️ when scraping the web? - GitHub - niespodd/b...

GitHub - klange/toaruos: A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system: bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library, and userspace including a composited graphical UI, dynamic linker, syntax-highlighting text editor, network stack, etc.

A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system: bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library, and userspace including a composited graphical UI, dynamic linker, syntax-highlighting text editor, network...

The Hidden Benefits Of Iframe Based Development

Iframe based web development as a software practice hasn't sufficiently been analyzed. This article argues that iframes allow single page apps to isolate security, improve performance, and increase developer speed through modular operations.

We are not Black Boxes

In science, a black box is a system that is viewed strictly in terms of its inputs and outputs. We cannot see what goes on inside black box systems, but we can feed things into them and observe wha…

The Strange Path of Accepting How Your Brain Works · Caffeinspiration

I recently read Turing’s Cathedral, a book about the early history of computers, and it largely focused on the life and brilliant times of John von Neumann, who was, to put it simply, a genius. It is both fascinating and disappointing to learn about a brain th…