11 November 2021

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How to cold email investors and get meetings?

Cold emails are underrated. In fact, investors are open to cold pitches and many notable startups were funded through a cold email. If done right, cold emails can get you dozens of meetings with VCs. A step-by-step guide and provided templates and examples.

Inventing the Future - Let's DO Have Hindsight!

Rewriting the History of Computing by Albert Cory and Jerry Morrison Rewind In Silicon Valley folklore and legend, Xerox PARC invented almost all the important parts of modern computing, but other companies reaped the profits. Apple, Adobe, 3Com were heirs d…

Explaining the Entombed Algorithm

In te{entombed}, John Aycock and Tara Copplestone pose an open question, namely the explanation of the mysterious lookup table used in the Entombed Game's Algorithm for two dimensional maze generation. The question attracted media attention (BBC etc) and was …

Episode 402 - Azure Chaos Studio

Cale, Sujit and Cynthia speak with Senior Program Manager John Engel-Kemnetz about Azure Chaos Studio, a new service announced during Ignite to help customers emulate chaos situations that applications might run into. John also gives us some insight into some …

The Monstrosity Email Has Become

Lot has been said about how the web evolved to become a kind of monstrous entity. If you are on Gemini, you probably see what I’m talking about. The mail protocol has followed a similar evolution but it’s a bit more subtle and has often been summarised as "too…

GitHub - CommunityToolkit/dotnet: .NET Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers and APIs that work for all .NET developers and are agnostic of any specific UI platform. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.

.NET Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers and APIs that work for all .NET developers and are agnostic of any specific UI platform. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation. - GitHub - Com...

View-Source

Chromium offers two ways for an end-user to view the source code of a web page: 1) the Developer Tools, and 2) The longstanding view-source viewer. Of these, the Developer Tools have received all m…

The inside story of the outside investigation of SoftRAM 95

With the release of Windows 95 came quite a number of software products tailored to run on it. One of them that drew a lot of attention at the time was SoftRAM 95, a product whose box claimed it would “Double Your Memory”.

How dangerous is GitHub Copilot for junior devs?

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Expanding Google Summer of Code in 2022

Over the course of GSoC’s 17 years, open source has grown and evolved, and we’ve realized that the program needs to evolve as well. With that in mind,

C# 10 Falls Just a Bit Short

.NET’s keystone language plays it safe, and cuts back on a few new features

.NET 6 now available on App Service

This week at .NET Conf we announced the availability of Day 0 support for .NET 6 GA on App Service so you can take advantage of the latest .NET Long-term Support (LTS) version.   Day 0 support is enabled by our Early Access feature, which allows you to use the…

Dissecting Interpolated Strings Improvements in C# 10

There are many interesting features coming into C# 10 and my favorite one is the improvements of interpolated strings. It may sound weird that the #1 feature for me is not a new one but an improvement of an existing one. That’s because I do care a lot about pe…

.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.

An update to dislikes on YouTube

The dislike count will be private across YouTube, but the dislike button will remain.

Timothy Gone

Provided to YouTube by IngroovesTimothy Gone · Margo Guryan27 Demos℗ 2014 Dartmoor Music under license to Oglio Records, a division of Oglio Entertainment LL...