26 May 2022

43 links · Thursday

Update on Jasper v2 with an actual alpha

First off, my super power (stop laughing at me!) is having a much longer attention span than the average software developer. In positive ways, this has enabled me to tackle very complex problems. I…

Ancient Earth

Earth looked very different long ago. Search for addresses across 750 million years of Earth's history.

Visual Studio at Microsoft Build 2022

This week we had Microsoft Build 2022 and there were some announcements made in Amanda Silver’s Theme session and multiple breakouts that are exciting for Visual Studio users, like you.

Priorities is a bad word.

If you believe in the theory of constraints, then you know that you can only get as much done as you can have flow through your system at once. What is your system? It’s the entire developmen…

Cloud security and college assignment

I’m teaching a college class about Cloud Computing and part of that is giving various assignments to build stuff on the cloud. That part is pretty routine.On...

May 26, 2022

Looking for a good frame to start from.

Set Up HTTPS by Default in Your Browser

Note: HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023. Read more here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywhereYou no longer need HTTPS Everywhere to set HTTPS by default! Major browsers now offer native support for an HTTPS only mode.Firef…

Focus

Vertigo.ai Focus is a new from-the-ground-up patent pending AI & GPU video CODEC that enables hi-def face to face interactions over low-bandwidth links. It is production-ready, extremely light-weight, and able to run in real-time on devices as old as the iPhon…

How we treat content as a product

Learn how the Product Content Experience team treats developer documentation and in-product content like a product

Software Carbon Intensity?

Since I’m keen on my farm, I choose a Farm Insights project where I used a Raspberry Pi and some sensors to collect very basic information about temperature, humidity, and soil moisture. I opened the project up to the Microsoft global community and ended up wi…

Auto Save files in Visual Studio 2022

Auto save file in Visual Studio 2022 enables you to save your files automatically in the background when Visual Studio loses focus.

Introducing AI for Beginners Curriculum

Summer is coming, and it is a great time to do some out-of-class learning! As part of Build Intro to Tech Skills, we are proud to announce the release of AI for Beginners Curriculum. It is a 24-lesson-long curriculum available on GitHub under MIT License, and …

Windows Terminal Preview 1.14 Release

It’s Microsoft Build! We have a Windows Terminal Preview release for you focused on fixing bugs and improving quality. This release also migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.13, which contains the new features defined in this previous blog post. As always,

Reading Source Code: React-Query

When I’m exploring an unfamiliar codebase I start with one of its public APIs. In this case, it was , arguably the most widely used React-Query function. As I…

jest mock buffer.from Code Example

import randomColor from "randomcolor"; jest.mock("randomColor", () => { return { randomColor: () => { return mockColor('#123456'); } } }); let mockColor = jest.fn();

It’s good to bet on .NET

Tech fads come and go but .NET remains steadfast as a consistently popular, and the most holistically productive, dev platform in the…

Cesium Story Depicts Damage in Ukraine

A new Cesium Story by Hidenori Watanave and Taichi Furuhash shows damaged buildings, refugees, and Russian convoys in Ukraine with 3D photogrammetry models and satellite imagery, all shown in geospatial context.

Introducing Project Volterra

Project Volterra is a Windows dev kit with an Arm CPU and NPU. It will include ...

Pong

Here is a link to full schematics. Thanks to whoever made this. I just found a few issues with it. The CLK input to the 7474 on page 2 should be HRESET, not CLK. Pin 5 of the 555's on pages 5 and 6 should be connected to the capacitor. Also some of the node…

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