Azure IoT Edge Tools Now Support Visual Studio 2022 -- Visual Studio Magazine
The extension 'makes it easy to code, build, deploy, and debug your IoT Edge solutions in Visual Studio 2022, by providing a rich set of functionalities.'
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit - Monthly Standup (February 2022)
Join us for our monthly standup for the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit!https://github.com/communitytoolkit/maui
27 Years of Amazon.com Website Design History - 34 Images - Version Museum
A comprehensive visual history of Amazon.com from 1995 to 2022. See a gallery of the Amazon.com evolution from the beginning to present day.
Progress in the Privacy Sandbox (December 2021) - Chrome Developers
Looking back at stats from 2021 and some resolutions for tackling user-agent and cookies in 2022.
New sponsors-only repositories, custom amounts, and more | The GitHub Blog
Along with the release of sponsors-only repositories, here’s a look at what’s new and what’s next for Sponsors.
What's new in .NET Interactive notebooks
https://aka.ms/dotNETConf2021-GetdotNET6Multi-language experiences in Jupyter Notebooks continues to be one of the most asked for features in the community. ...
EquationGroupLeak/eligiblecandidate.py at master · adamcaudill/EquationGroupLeak
Archive of leaked Equation Group materials. Contribute to adamcaudill/EquationGroupLeak development by creating an account on GitHub.
CGI did, in fact, ruin movies
On the digital void that is modern cinema
Retrospective and Technical Details on the recent Firefox Outage – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
On January 13th 2022, Firefox became unusable for close to two hours for users worldwide. This post highlights the complex series of events and circumstances that, together, triggered a bug deep in the networking code of Firefox.
EquationGroupLeak/eligiblecontestant.py at master · adamcaudill/EquationGroupLeak
Archive of leaked Equation Group materials. Contribute to adamcaudill/EquationGroupLeak development by creating an account on GitHub.
CosmosDB linux container for your CI builds - Dominique St-Amand
If you have been following Microsoft Build 2021, you may have seen the news that the CosmosDB linux container is now out. This is great news for the ones who finally want to test on a *nix environment.As of this post, the CosmosDB linux container is in preview…
Portable Python Projects
Expand your knowledge of the Raspberry Pi while building nearly a dozen immediately applicable hardware and software projects. Use Python to make exciting autonomous solutions.
.NET Interactive is looking for a new name!
Help us rename .NET Interactive!.NET Interactive is an engine that supports running multiple languages including C#, F#, PowerShell, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, and Kusto to date with plans to add more. It has the ability to behave as a Jupyter kernel in tools like…
Sponsors-only Repositories | GitHub Changelog
Sponsors-only Repositories
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Competitive programming with AlphaCode
As part of DeepMind’s mission to solve intelligence, we created a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a competitive level.
Serenity OS - CoRecursive Podcast
How would you build an operating system? My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second thing is it seems like to large of a task. It took thousands of developers to build Windows XP.But actually, it is possible to build an operating syst…
Windows Wednesday - All about Windows Sysinternals
Come join Kayla and Scott as they chat with Mark Russinovich about Sysinternals!Community Links: https://docs.microsoft.com/sysinternals/Featuring: Kayla Cin...
mmWave radar, you won't see it coming
Why mmWave radar is showing up in our latest cars and consumer electronics and what it means for ambient computing.
Gotchas! in Event Driven Architecture - What you need to be aware of
Event Driven Architecture has a few gotchas. Things that you always need to be aware of or think about. Regardless of whether you're new to Event Driven Arch...
Postman Now Supports gRPC | Postman Blog
We are excited to announce first-class support for gRPC in Postman. Learn how to get started today.
Wordle in less than 50 lines of Bash
Wordle in less than 50 lines of Bash. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gotcha: C++/WinRT weak_ref.get() doesn't get the weak reference; it gets the strong reference
If you have a winrt::com_ptr<T>, you can call the get() method to obtain the raw COM pointer inside it. This is handy if you need to pass that raw pointer along to another method that wants raw pointers. The winrt::weak_ref<T> also has a get() method,
AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust
AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust
GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe's consent popups are unlawful
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.
The Catch Block #92 - Cool Read Extravaganza!
In this issue: the experience tax; performance in ASP.NET 6, how to kill innovation; PNG from HTML; clean code (no such thing as); and how to avoid working for a bad boss.
Pure magic in C# using tuples and relational patterns
2 Feb 2022 1 mins C#
How to recommend books, or, stop recommending SICP
How to recommend books, or, stop recommending SICP
DateTime.Now and DateTime.UtcNow
DateTime.Now and DateTime.UtcNow - Local vs UTC time. How to convert from Local to UTC time? How to check if DateTime is Local or UTC?
How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and start to love long-lived connections
Often programmers have assumptions that turn out, to their surprise, to be invalid. From my experience this happens a lot. Every API, technology or system can be abused beyond its limits and break in a miserable way
Visual Studio 2022 - with Kendra Havens
https://www.dotnetoxford.com/posts/2022-01-vs2022-with-kendra-havens
West Wind WebSurge 2.0 is here
I've just released West Wind WebSurge 2.0. WebSurge is a REST Client and Load Testing tool for Windows and in this post I provide a short overview, a link to a new YouTube Getting Started video, and some background on this release
A toy DNS resolver
A toy DNS resolver
Piped
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
DateTime.Now and DateTime.UtcNow
DateTime.Now and DateTime.UtcNow - Local vs UTC time. How to convert from Local to UTC time? How to check if DateTime is Local or UTC?
WebVM: server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser
We made a server-less virtual Linux environment that runs unmodified Debian binaries in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX.
How to Create PDF file in C# .NET – 5 Easy Steps | Pro Code Guide
In this article, we will learn about how to create pdf file in C# .NET. Portable Document Format (PDF) can be created in programming languages like C# and
How I Discovered Thousands of Open Databases on AWS
My journey on finding and reporting databases with sensitive data about Fortune-500 companies, Hospitals, Crypto platforms, Startups during…
Building ASP.NET Core and EF Core hierarchical multi-tenant apps – The Reformed Programmer
Last Updated: January 31, 2022 | Created: January 31, 2022
Using the circuit breaker pattern with AWS Step Functions and Amazon DynamoDB | Amazon Web Services
This post is written by Anitha Deenadayalan, Developer Specialist SA, DevAx Modern applications use microservices as an architectural and organizational approach to software development, where the application comprises small independent services that communica…
Meet the Women of .NET
Come and meet the team behind the initiative!
How you can learn Python with this 11 part series
Python is multipurpose language and one of the most popular languages in the world. It can be used for IoT, Machine Learning and much more. It's easy to get started and there's lots to learn. With this 11-part series, it's our hope you will be equipped with al…
Monsters Weekly 238 - Improving Page Load Performance with Responsive Images
In this episode, we take our quest to improve page load performance to the next level by introducing responsive WebP images. Using responsive images, we can minimize the number of bytes downloaded to
Static Abstract Members In C# 10 Interfaces
Using C# 10 preview feature of Static Abstract Members
Piped
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
Join Us in Celebration as .NET Turns 20
Throughout the month of February, we will be celebrating .NET’s 20th birthday and its 20 years of innovation! You can join the celebration as well. Share your .NET stories and custom-made .NET bots, join Microsoft for a live broadcast, or answer .NET trivia qu…
PSReadLine 2.2 RC
We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of PowerShell PSReadLine 2.2, an improved command-line editing experience in the PowerShell terminal. This release is supported for PowerShell 7.x and downlevel to Windows PowerShell 5.1. The release candid…
Authentication in ASP .NET Core
How you can authenticate users in .NET Core
ongoing by Tim Bray · Lock-in and Multi-Cloud
Alone in a room with the customer’s CTO, I said “So, I spent this morning talking to your people, and it looks like you’re using low-level generic tech for everything and managing it yourself. You could save a shit-ton of money by using high-level man…
Writing better release notes
Release notes are an important part of the open source process. I’ve been thinking about these a lot recently, and I’ve assembled some thoughts on how to do a better …
Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
ASP.NET Community Standup - Sept 2nd, 2014 - Introduction to ASP.NET vNext, how and why?
Visual Studio 2022 - with Kendra Havens
https://www.dotnetoxford.com/posts/2022-01-vs2022-with-kendra-havens
RWC 2022 program
Real World Crypto 2022
Praise your competitors
Publicly praise competitors (e.g. on social media) to improve attitudes towards your brand. People will be more likely to buy from you.
Harry Vangberg: Note Workflows in Skrift
A look at different workflows for effectively working with a network of notes in my note app Skrift.
DIY web analytics with EndTRACKER - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
One thing that had been bothering me about my websites—including this blog, but especially when launching https://www.endbasic.dev/ just a few months ago—was this: uBlock showing a warning that it blocked a tracker on the EndBASIC site. A trackin…
Efficiency, and a simple formula for being a 10x-er
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to improve my programming efficiency. I’m also trying to improve my productivity, but I don’t have much to add there. (I’m using …
Strong Password Enforcement – Josh Betz
Modern web applications have a responsibility to prevent their users from using easily compromised passwords. I would also say that it’s in their best interest, although it’s certainly a trade off. Most people still don’t use password managers, so stricter req…
In defense of user-defined web fonts — nutcroft blog
There is a problem with web fonts. They are big in size. That’s why we have invented woff2 which uses brotli to compress them as efficiently as we know. But, I claim: it’s not enough—they are still unjustifiably big.
Code Colocation is King – Koen van Gilst
A simple principle to help structure code better
ASP.NET Community Standup - Sept 2nd, 2014 - Introduction to ASP.NET vNext, how and why?
Ideas that have been beaten to death
Recently I was browsing Product Hunt and I was aimlessly scrolling down to see if there are any interesting ideas. I was seeing one recurring idea, popping up once in every few weeks. This is the same idea that I see popping up on HackerNews, ProductHunt, …
The web starts on page four
After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the whole, we lost an amazing opportunity. In its place we have a co…
<link>: The External Resource Link element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The <link> HTML element specifies relationships between the current document and an external resource. This element is most commonly used to link to stylesheets, but is also used to establish site icons (both "favicon" style icons and icons for the home scre…
Projects I Support
As we roll further into 2022, I wanted to outline the projects and other activities in the community that I support in the hope that it might inspire you to consider doing the same. These projects are in no particular order and I either support them because I …
Welcome to My Site!
My personal website and blog
jmtd → log → Amateur archiving activities, January 2022
I have a backlog of digital stuff to upload to archive.org that I'm finally starting to flush. I'd had some difficulties in getting uploads to work until I tried using the excellent ia CLI tool, which is packaged in Debian.
Reality by Consensus
Imagine if you forgot what one of the rooms in your house looked like, and when you returned, it had changed, it was “refreshed”. It had refreshed, not into some absurd wonderland of glowing fungi and strange creatures, but to one consistent with what you beli…
My remote work experience after two years of working remotely full time
I am writing this article after working two years remotely as a full time software developer in a Global Fortune 500 company. Read how my expectations of remote work have met with the reality of working remotely.
Remote Pair Programming - Demir Delic
How can a distributed team work on code together while staying in a flow state? Which tools and practices work best?
Postgres large JSON value query performance (evanjones.ca)
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 k…
Senior Program Manager in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States | Program Management at Microsoft
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