How I switched to Flutter and lost 10 kilos
With Flutter, I was finally able to build the app I wanted for tracking health, exercises, etc
Why wireguard is NOT safe, and you should NOT use it.
The first time people uses a vpn, what they go to see first is "how fast we are." And if "we are very fast, "we are inclined" to think that "we are dealing with a good product, which produces little overhead. This has some drawbacks.For example, you could mak…
Notes on Ukraine
I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine, visiting the cities of Uzhgorod, Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odessa. As with my other travels, I’ll write down thoughts and obse…
Automating Well-Architected Principles
On building digital companies
Hating On Oats
This is the personal website of Hating On Oats, a software engineer currently imprisoned in the deep south. It contains his projects, credentials, articles, and contact information.
Monitor radiation with a Raspberry Pi
I have an odd fascination with radiation… Not to the point that I’m buying “Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials” (or NORMs for short) on eBay, but certainly to the point that I own a digital geiger counter and regularly measure… things… Recently, I disco…
Building my first mechanical keyboard
A friend of mine recently brought up his custom mechanical keyboard while we were hanging out in voice chat, and at first, nobody understood why anyone would buy one. At that time, I had no clue that there are entire communities about building custom keyboards…
Homo Bufferedius
It used to be that people knocked on your door, got no response, and went away. Now they’re effectively waiting in line when you come home.
Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Finally! On May 19, 2022, GitHub released one of its most requested features: Math support on Markdown! Many had been anticipating this for years, including myself, so much in fact that I wrote a browser extension to get there early. (xhub, it can do a few oth…
Visual Studio Code Nods to Rapidly Rising Rust Language -- Visual Studio Magazine
Rust, one of the fastest-growing programming languages, is the subject of a new Visual Studio Code topic.
GitHub - sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' - GitHub - sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
Angular Diameter Turnaround
Tether Required Recapitalization In May 2022
In 2019, after years of following along, I described Tether as “the internal accounting system for the largest fraud since Madoff.” This remains true. I made many very specific claims in that essay, which have been borne out in detail in the NYAG settlement an…
ACM Digital Library
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This "amateur" programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Features of the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS)
The Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) of IIS 7 is the key component that provides process model and configuration features to Web Applications and Web...
How GitHub Actions handles CI/CD scale on short-running jobs with Ephemeral OS disk Reimage
Background GitHub Actions makes it easy for customers to automate all their software workflows, with world-class CI/CD. Users can build, test, and deploy their code right from GitHub. Whether they want to build a container, deploy a web service, or automate we…
Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15
Deep dive into the sort performance improvements in PostgreSQL 15, along with charts to visualize what types of queries will be faster. Includes speedups in single column sorts, reduced memory consumption with generation memory context, specialized sort routin…
Memory safety for SerenityOS
This post describes how we’re going to achieve memory safety in SerenityOS.
Black Tech Week
#BTW creates connections, opportunities, and forums for founders to connect with other founders, tech talent, education and investors.
Buy Vs. Build – The Political Aspect
I’ve been involved in quite a few “Buy vs. Build” decisions over the years. Too many, in fact — but I’ll get to that in a second. The decisions have a familiar tenor t…
9-Euro-Ticket
Energy costs are rising. As one response, the German government is planning to launch a special-offer ticket as part of its support package for bus and rail transport. For 9 euros, you can travel throughout Germany on local/regional trains for a whole month in…
Weekly Update 296
I Broke My 3D Printer (and How I’m Improving It); New Data Breaches; Fixing HIBP Stripe Payments; The Pwned Passwords Downloader; Sponsored by Kolidehttps://...
Code Maze Weekly #124 - Code Maze
Issue #124 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Copying a collection: ToList vs ToArray [www.meziantou.net] ToList vs ToArray, which one is faster? Find out by reading this piece by Gérald Barré. IEnumerable V…
Unusual optimizations; ref foreach and ref returns
A really interesting feature quietly slipped into C# 7.3 - interesting to me, at least - but which I’ve seen almost no noise about. As I’ve ...
50 shades of .NET on AWS
Hosting our .NET applications on AWS
The History of Web Accessibility—How It Impacts Design Today
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’ll look back at the history of accessibility in the U.S., including efforts to bring accessibility to internet users.
An Azure Developer's guide to Microsoft Build 2022
Microsoft Build 2022 takes place May 24-26, 2022. Discover the latest news in Azure application development and learn how to take advantage of the latest innovation to build secure, future-ready applications productively. On Day 1, in the Microsoft Build…
Approaches to implementing multi-tenancy in SaaS applications | Red Hat Developer
This second article of the SaaS architecture checklist series covers different ways to achieve isolation for clients, and examines their tradeoffs.
Access to XAML controls in a React Native for Windows application
When you build a Windows application using React Native for Windows, typically you don't have to worry about the underline generated application. One of the powerful features of React Native is that it generates a truly native application, which means that the…
A Data and AI guide to Build 2022
Microsoft Build will begin Tuesday, May 24 at 8:30 AM PDT with our annual keynote. Attendees can then participate in live segments, breakout sessions, Learn Live workshops, and more. We are excited to bring you this guide as your go-to map for discovering al…
Solutions Architect Tips: How to Build Your First Architecture Diagram | Ready, Set, Cloud!
Diagrams are a Solutions Architect's best friend. But they can be notoriously difficult to start. Here are some tips before you put pen to paper.
The Search for a Proportional Font for Developers (Revisited for VS Code)
Back in 2016, in my article “The Search for a Proportional Font for Developers”, I wrote about trying various fonts as a replacement for Segoe UI, a sans-serif font which once had, but then lost …
Global Accessbility Awareness Day – Does your web product support the needs of the many?
I’ve been working on the web since 1997 and one thing I realised early on is a big basic idea of the web:
Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
Winner of the Webby Award for Viral Video!Full credits at http://richterscales.com/bubble_creditsWeb 2.0 had it coming
GitHub - zefchain/serde-reflection: Rust libraries and tools to help with interoperability and testing of serialization formats based on Serde.
Rust libraries and tools to help with interoperability and testing of serialization formats based on Serde. - GitHub - zefchain/serde-reflection: Rust libraries and tools to help with interoperabil...
Math support in Markdown | The GitHub Blog
We are pleased to announce that math expressions can now be rendered natively in Markdown on GitHub
Render mathematical expressions in Markdown | GitHub Changelog
Render mathematical expressions in Markdown