6 December 2021

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Phone screens are broken | Kevin Burke

I fail phone screens pretty often, which limits my job prospects and is embarrassing for someone with ten years of industry experience, a pretty extensive Github account and a publicly available list of difference-making projects. 1 In theory a phone screen is…

The Memory Image Pattern

The Memory Image Pattern (MIP) is a novel approach to application development. It rejects the idea of storing state in a database and gains both developer productivity and run-time performance. If you can fit your application data in memory, MIP might be for y…

Generating 360° Video Game Panoramas

FrontierNav's core feature is its interactive maps. That's where it all started and what everyone uses it for. However, top-down 2D maps don't provide a sense of scale, nor verticality. In my previous

Binary Transparency

Binary Transparency - Building Trust in the Software Supply Chain.

Why your cloud infrastructure should be immutable

For years I’ve heard everywhere that immutable microservices are the best and while the developer community embraces this technique with read-only Docker images and CI/CD’s, the Operations world seem to be stuck in manual labour changes. Reasons? We just didn’…

Ten years of measurement

Measuring the body # As a teenager, I was fit and rake-thin, but in my mid-twenties my body began changing. At first, the extra weight I put on brought compliments. “Are you working out? You look buff.” But then it continued, and it was clear that I’d need to …

Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy

Ikea recently came out with a range of air purifiers and also an air quality sensor. The Vindriktning does not have a display but shows the air quality data in the form of a traffic light with red, yellow and green LEDs.

Modern for Wikipedia

A redesigned user interface for Wikipedia.

[Video] Checking out NDepend

Let’s take a look at something that’s been around for years, but maybe flew under the radar: NDepend, a static code analysis tool tailored for .NET.

Replace your hardware firewalls with Cloudflare One

Today, we’re excited to announce new capabilities to help customers make the switch from hardware firewall appliances to a true cloud-native firewall built for next-generation networks.

Rysiekúr Memesson (@rysiek@mastodon.technology)

You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting. On the page that loads there is the article, but also, somewhere on the right, often near the bottom, there is a small video player. Inexplicably, it was not blocked by your ad-blocke…

Tech Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

2022 will be an exciting year for technology, with it pushing all of us, and our planet, forward in the process

.NET Advent Calendar

One blog post every day until Christmas.

What is a Game Engine?

With Game Ja-Ja-Ja-Jamuary coming up, we discuss what makes a game engine, while Michael's impersonation is spot-on, Allen may really just be Michael, and Joe already has the title of his next podcast show at the ready.

Why Does This $10,000 Gucci Xbox Exist?

Sponsored by Cash App, download from App Store/Google Play store - Use code MARQUES for $15 and $10 goes to Girls Who Code!Twitter: http://twitter.com/MKBHDT...

Microsoft Introduces a Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service in Preview

Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Load Testing. With this fully-managed load testing service, users can generate high-scale load with custom Apache JMeter scripts and gain actionable insights to catch and fix performance bottlenecks.