[URGENT] PPCGeeks hacked, database dumped...
--> It appears on Aug. 19th we were hacked and our database was dumped. Unfortunately this means that 490,004 users data including email addresses,
Logistic regression in Hobbiton - the dumbest intro to machine learning on the internet
Let's re-discover every bit of logistic regression model (binary cross-entropy, gradient descent, linear algebra and calculus)
Please create good tiktok(-analyse)s
Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. Once again a report about TikTok is going around. We have read it carefully: It’s mostly nonsense. Let’s have a look at the claims one after the other A shocking new report today outlines just how far TikTok g…
Building friend catchers
As a 13 year old, my dad’s advice on internet presence was: “Everything you post will be used against you in the future. So you should never associate your name with anything on the internet”. As a rebellious teenager my view was the opposite: “Everything y…
In Praise of Stacked PRs
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity
The First Secret Problem
An overview of the first secret problems and possible solutions.
The journey of building something "useless"
Note: This is not meant to be a tutorial or a guide, it's more a story of my journey while building something. A story in which I will try to show the decisions that I made and why I made them. Talk about errors I encountered and the unknowns that caused me pr…
Draw me an (abstract) tree
29 jun 2022 - 5 minutes to read
Three abstraction’s pitfalls
Incidental similarity
11 Best GitHub Repositories That Help You Grow As A Software Developer
GitHub can be a gold mine for learners, and these 11 repositories definitely help you become a better software developer as valuable learning resources.
Why No Full SQL Server Reporting/Integration Services in Visual Studio 2022? -- Visual Studio Magazine
Visual Studio 2022 has been out for some eight months now, but it still lacks full support for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), a top feature request.
The Design of Everyday Things — Book Summary & Notes
This is my summary and notes from The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Please use the link if you decide to buy the book after…
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Java on Visual Studio Code Fixes Lombok Library Issues -- Visual Studio Magazine
The big news in the July 2022 update to Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code extensions is that they all now fully support the Lombok library.
GitHub - tusdotnet/tusdotnet: .NET server implementation of the Tus protocol for resumable file uploads. Read more at https://tus.io
.NET server implementation of the Tus protocol for resumable file uploads. Read more at https://tus.io - GitHub - tusdotnet/tusdotnet: .NET server implementation of the Tus protocol for resumable f...
Null Conditional Operators in C# - ?. and ?[]
In the last article, we took at look at Nullability in C# - What It Is and What It Is Not . When we have nullability enabled, we need t...
Capri Suns
Production postmortem: Broken networks and compressed streams
RavenDB introduced a TCP compression feature in version 5.3. The idea is that all internal communication in the cluster (as well as subscriptions), will use ...
Using IAsyncEnumerable in a Razor component - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to use an IAsyncEnumerable instance with await foreach in a Razor component.
July 18, 2022
You still have to return something, but today's compilers don't warn you.
A story about AF_XDP, network namespaces and a cookie
A crash in a development version of flowtrackd (the daemon that powers our Advanced TCP Protection) highlighted the fact that libxdp (and specifically the AF_XDP part) was not Linux network namespace aware. This blogpost describes the debugging journey to find…
The NEW caching that you should be using in .NET 7
Check out my courses: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick and in ...
Cookie Authentication With ASP.NET Core and Angular - Code Maze
In this article, let's learn how to implement cookie authentication using ASP.NET Core and Angular with a detailed step by step guide.
Removing Switch-Case Statement and using Pattern Matching in C#
In this article, we consider how to remove switch-case statements from our code with OOP and Pattern Matching.
315: A Proper Podcast
This is something special....
Picking up Free Lithium Cells Off the Street and Making them Safe for Use
As you wonder around town, have a look in the gutters (or if you’re feeling brave rummage around in pub ashtrays), you’ll notice a pretty nasty trend. There are now a large number of disposable vap...
Azure Static Web Apps Introduces API Backend Options
Azure recently announced the preview of new API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps. Developers can now create an end-to-end authenticated application calling APIs hosted on Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, or Azure API Management.
Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping - gHacks Tech News
Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking.
Coding Shorts: ASP.NET Core Middleware Explained
As I continue to make my Coding Shorts videos, I decided to dedicate the next few episodes to ASP.NET Core middleware. I'm going to show off some common middleware that more projects should be using. But before I dive into that, I wanted to make sure everyone …
Stack Overflow 2022 Survey Says …
Once again, Stack Overflow takes the pulse of the developer community where we have all collectively decided to switch to Clojure, while Michael is changing things up, Joe is a future predicting trailblazer, and Allen is "up in the books"
NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope have been released, and ...
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