16 February 2022

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Windows Server Hotpatching is here!

Heya folks, Ned Pyle & Nick Washburn here with a big announcement: Hotpatching is now generally available as part of Azure Automanage for Windows Server. This capability allows you to patch and install updates to their Windows Server Azure Edition core virtual…

A new wave of Linux applications

With the start of the new year, we can see a new trend delineating Linux software. Phosh with its newbord libadwaita, KDE's Kirigami and Maui Shell show that – like it or not – the era of convergent Linux applications has just started. After all, even laptop …

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6 is now available; this release focuses on addressing top issues from Preview 5 release as well as continuing the move of the IDE to native macOS UI.

hue.tools

A free color mixer, blender, info and modifier tool. Mix multiple colors, get links for design inspiration and stock images based on a color, view various color combinations and modify colors in an intuitive.

Activity Enrichment in ASP.NET Core 6.0

Waaaaay back in the ASP.NET Core 3.1 days, I wrote about increasing the cardinality of traces using Tags and Baggage. You could write code in your controllers, filters, or application code to be able to add custom information to traces to help find these trace…

Music theory for nerds

Not music nerds, obviously. I don’t know anything about music. I know there are letters but sometimes the letters have squiggles; I know an octave doubles in pitch; I know you can

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Never Use Text Pixelation To Redact Sensitive Information

See why you should never use pixelation for redacting text and why it is a surefire way to get your data leaked. Learn from security researcher Dan Petro.

Twenty years of .NET - Yay! — robmiles.com

Blimey. Twenty years eh? The .NET framework has been part of nearly a third of my life. Highlights for me: Going to amazing sessions at Cambridge University and learning all about the new framework from the people that built it. Launching the first ever …

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Pure-Impure Segregation Principle | Oleksii Holub

Two months ago I posted an article detailing why I think unit testing is overrated, which seemed to resonate quite a lot with the readers, prompting very involved and interesting discussions. And although most commenters mainly shared their personal experience…

TURDle

A game about poop

Pondering Agile Principles - Benji's Blog

With this in mind, I've been pondering where do (and don't) I share the same principles. Can we "turn up the dials" on agile principles as well as the ways of working?

Asking Questions When You Don't Know Enough

Sometimes when I need to fix an issue I don't know enough about the issue to ask the correct question.

Why you should have a public roadmap

Public roadmaps are used by organisations to show users and customers what they are working on now and in the future. They are a great way to show openness and transparency to build trust with an audience that is interested in their work, and to demonstrate co…

What Exactly Is a Bcc Anyway?

Adding a Bcc to an email is a clever approach to sending a hidden copy that will not be visible to any other receipients. It is similar to its friendly cousin cc except no one will know about it. But do you really know exactly what it was created for

godocs.io one year later

It's been more than a year since we started godocs.io. For those unaware, godocs.io is a fork of the now-defunct godoc.org which serves documentation for Go packages. Some users may prefer godocs.io for its lightweight pages, simpler user interface, lower reso…

Please Stop Relying on LocalStorage

So the latest craze in web games is currently Wordle. It's unsurprisingly pretty fun, and the stats and social sharing aspect make it instantly worth discussing with friends. However, only about two days into playing Wordle, I realized Josh Wardle...