24 January 2022

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Highlights from Git 2.35 | The GitHub Blog

The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes.

Chesterton's Fence - Lesswrongwiki

Chesterton's fence is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood. The quotation is from Chesterton’s 1929 book The Thing, in the chapter entitled "The Drift from Domesticity":

The MainWindowHandle property is just a guess based on heuristics

A customer had a program written in Windows Forms that wanted the following behavior: When the user minimizes the app, it hides the window. When the user relaunches the app, the second instance finds the existing (hidden) window and makes it visible again.

How slow is MediatR really?

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290: The .NET MAUI Episode

We answer all of your questions! Which seem to mostly be about .NET MAUI :)

Announcing TypeScript 4.6 Beta

Today we are excited to announce the beta release of TypeScript 4.6! To get started using the beta, you can get it through NuGet, or use npm with the following command: npm install typescript@beta You can also get editor support by Downloading for Visual Studi…

Debugging Compatibility in Edge

Background By moving from our old codebase to Chromium, the Microsoft Edge team significantly modernized our codebase and improved our compatibility with websites. As we now share the vast majority…

Using games engines for work and profit! | Meetup

Tue, 25 Jan, 7:00 pm AEDT: ...or something along those lines 😇 Now that games engines are ridiculously over powered, wouldn't it be great if we could somehow find ways to incorporate them into our

Azure Functions consumption plan naming

This post is about how to follow naming conventions for Azure Function consumption plans. Unlike Azure App Services, when we create Azure Functions with consumption plan Azure will create a plan name which you can’t modify. If you’re following certain naming c…

Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.