Auto Completions Speed Up in Java on Visual Studio Code -- Visual Studio Magazine
Java jockeys using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor will see faster code completions thanks to a new language server.
Revisiting the Bangladesh Mask RCT.
Musings on systems, information, learning, and optimization.
Data Exfiltration via CSS + SVG Font
This post will show that the SVG fonts and CSS can be used for reading the page's text contents. There are several known ways to read the pa...
TPM remote attestation over Bluetooth
How can you be sure that the software running on your computer has not been tampered with since you installed it? Even if your disk is encrypted, how can you be sure that the password prompt at boot is not a trap planted by an evil third-party that will exfilt…
My Dive Into DevOps Consulting - Work & Life Notes
While I've been working as a consultant for more than 10 years, only 3 of those years went into DevOps consulting. If you're curious, my other consulting
Finally A Personal Knowledge Management Tooling That Works - ulrichkautz.com
I was interested in the topic of personal knowledge management since I first used a computer for learning. So far I could not find a solution that really worked well for me. Until now. I found my second brain. If you are a knowledge worker as well, are not gif…
How to Backup to Backblaze B2 with Rclone and keep the network alive
I'm living in a place with not the fastest internet download/upload (39/12 Mbps) speeds. It took some time to tune all the parameters of the Rclone to successfully create an initial backup (around 400GB) and keep the network alive during the upload to Backblaz…
Writing for the Web
A guide for writing better technical articles + blog posts.
I have no idea what I’m doing
A few days ago, David Heinemeier Hansson (who generally goes by DHH) wrote a blog post titled Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence: I disagreed with the post, but for different reasons …
Practical Security Recommendations for Start-ups with Limited Budgets
Hi, my name is Alex, I’ve been an IT security professional since 2007 and I’ve recently entered the start-up world with my project bughuntr.io. In putting together this project, security has been a primary concern for me. This is both due to my background and …
How LambdaMART works - optimizing product ranking goals
LambdaMART directly optimizes whatever search relevance ranking metric matters to your business. This article details how this neat machine learning trick wo...
Simplicity always wins
Software engineers love complexity. Complexity is an inherent part of writing software because the medium itself (programming languages) is complex on its own. When you put together with it the discipline of doing software engineering, where you add time const…
Introduction
3rd Workshop on the Evolution, Performance and Interoperability of QUIC
Learn C# with the C# 101 Interactive Notebooks
Let's learn C# the fun way using C# 101 Interactive Notebooks! Maira Wenzel will demo how to start learning C# at your own pace and how to practice coding in...
Introducing Buy now, pay later in Microsoft Edge
“Buy now, pay later,” or BNPL, lets shoppers break their purchases into equal installment payments, often interest-free, which can allow shoppers to get their purchase upfront, instead of having to wait until it’s paid in full. Usually, BNPL is offered in sp…
CSLA 6 First Prerelease
The first prerelease of CSLA .NET version 6.0.0 is now in NuGet.
Validated Strongly Typed IOptions
Find configuration errors early with data annotations validation for IOptions in .NET
GitHub - vv9k/dockeye: GUI app for managing Docker
GUI app for managing Docker . Contribute to vv9k/dockeye development by creating an account on GitHub.
[Last Week in .NET #70] – It’s *only* Five Bad Things
.NET Has been forked, .NET Framework 1.1 does run on Windows 11, and Microsoft’s Board of Directors supports Bad Things, apparently. 🍴open-dot.net, a fork of .NET, has been created by Geoff H…
Kavita
Lighting fast with a slick design, Kavita is a rocket fueled self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats. Install to start reading and share your server with your friends. book reader, self hosted, manga, comics, free, manhwa, e rea…
Get to Know EF Core 6
EF Core 6: improved support for Azure Cosmos DB, increased performance, first-class APIs, SQL Server temporal tables and more!
The Schemaverse
The Schemaverse is a space-based strategy game implemented entirely within a PostgreSQL database. Compete against other players using raw SQL commands to command your fleet. Or, if your PL/pgSQL-foo is strong, wield it to write AI and have your fleet command i…
CONIGUERO/winamp
Winamp. Contribute to CONIGUERO/winamp development by creating an account on GitHub.
JasperFx OSS Plans for .Net 6 (Marten et al)
I’m going to have to admit that I got caught flat footed by the .Net 6 release a couple weeks ago. I hadn’t really been paying much attention to the forthcoming changes, maybe got cocky…
Distributing applications that depend on Microsoft.Playwright - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to publish and distribute an application that rely on Microsoft.Playwright.
How do I migrate from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI? | One Dev Question
Continuing our series on .NET 6, we are happy to welcome back Maddy Montaquila (Leger), who today talks to us about migrating from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI...
The Case of the Recursive Resolvers - Slack Engineering
On September 30th 2021, Slack had an outage that impacted less than 1% of our online user base, and lasted for 24 hours. This outage was the result of our attempt to enable DNSSEC — an extension intended to secure the DNS protocol, required for FedRAMP Moderat…
What is Developer Advocacy and How To Get Started with Francesco Ciulla
Connect with FrancescoTwitter - https://twitter.com/FrancescoCiull4YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/FrancescoCiulla00:00 - Guest and topic introduction01:...
Distributing an application that rely on Microsoft.Playwright - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to publish and distribute an application that rely on Microsoft.Playwright.
RavenDB Subscriptions & Messaging patterns
RavenDB is a database, not a queue or a service bus. That said, you can make use of RavenDB subscriptions to get a very similar behavior to a service bu...
How did Windows 3.1's virtual machine manager get the information to show in the text-mode Alt+Tab switcher?
When I told the life story of the SwitchToThisWindow function, some people were curious about how the virtual machine manager knew about the current windows and their z-order, so that it could show them in the fake text-mode Alt+Tab switcher. The virtual ma…
WebGL Water
Made by Evan Wallace
Firefox is the Only Alternative
Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from - Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive the time of almost complete Internet Explorer domination again…
How to obfuscate your .NET app and why it's pointless
Become a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasKeep coding merch: https://keepcoding.shopHello everybody I'm Nick and in thi...
Welcome to Fleet! | JetBrains News
For years folks have been asking us,
JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains
Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.
Goodbye, Rock Solid Knowledge; Hello, 10x Banking
Why I have left Rock Solid Knowledge, what I’m doing in my new job at 10x Banking, and what, if anything, will change on this website.
Tiny | We buy wonderful internet businesses
We give founders simple exits that protect their team and keep their businesses operating. Offers in 7 days, close in 30.
The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again
The most popular new interface element in business software lets you tell apps exactly what you want to do.
Difference Between "throw" vs "throw ex" in C# - Code Maze
A visual comparison of two common methods of rethrowing exceptions - the 'throw' and 'throw ex' statements.
282: Automating Protocols
Custom schemes, http schemes, protocols, they are a pain to develop for, but are so powerful! After years of using them, we finally figured out how to automate it and we have a lot of ideas!
The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered
The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer was released in 1983 and became extremely popular, defining the sound of 1980s pop music. Because micro...
vscode-pyolite - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Run Python code in VS Code Jupyter notebooks
Don't Code Tired | What’s New in C# 10: Easier Lambda Expressions
Don't Code Tired - Jason Roberts on Software Development and .NET -
Using GitHub Actions to Update .NET Dependencies Automatically
It’s a tale as old as time, as a software engineer, you write some code, you’re happy with it and then you deliver it. End of story, right…
The newest Docker VS Code extension feature you’re not using
As Docker usage has grown, Docker Compose has become the leader in running multi-service applications locally. Unfortunately, as your application expands and more services must communicate, we’ve found authoring these Compose files can become arduous, time con…
Released: General Availability of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 4.0
We have released for general availability Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 4.0. This .NET Data Provider for SQL Server provides general connectivity to the database and supports all the latest SQL Server features for applications targeting .NET Framework, .NET Core, .…
Cake v2.0.0 RC 2 released
Version 2.0.0 RC 2 of Cake has been released. Take it for a spin and give us feedback on our discussion board.
Why are German numbers backwards?
Latin languages, as well as English, speak numbers from left to right, in the same direction in which they are written, e.g. forty-two, quarante-deux, but in German, you write from left to right but
Alexandre Nédélec - Organize your GitHub stars with Astral
Do you often star a GitHub repository and later when you want to get back to it struggle to find it on your stars page? I do! Well, I did... until I discovered Astral, the web application that allows you to Organize Your GitHub Stars With Ease. That is what we…
Floating Point Visually Explained
August 29, 2017