Live: AWS Multi-Account Structure Design
In this session, we are going to design an AWS Multi-Account structure and the networking behind it. We will learn how to connect different accounts together...
A comprehensive overview of authentication in ASP.NET Core – for fellow developers who're struggling with authentication in .NET
Lately I've seen many posts on this subreddit where new .NET developers complained about the complexity of authentication and authorization in the...
How to build the simplest feature flag system in Elixir & Phoenix apps
A guide for Elixir developers (and why you might want to)
Distributed Tracing to discover a Distributed BIG BALL of MUD
Distributed tracing is great for observing a request flowing through a set of distributed services. However, it can also be used as a crutch!
Comments are hard
Building a comments system is really hard. I tried to build one for Known, which powers my website, but found that spammers circumvented it surprisingly
7 Critical Thinking Barriers and Ways To Crush Them
In this critical thinking barriers and how to overcome them post you'll see two things: Why your thinking is bad and how to improve it.
Elixir Observability: OpenTelemetry, Lightstep, Honeycomb
How to integrate your Elixir application with Open Telemetry to make it observable in Lightstep and Honeycomb's reliability platform
Talking to your customers: a disruptive concept
In this post, I’ll present a robust and disruptive Agile framework. It’s called “talk to your customers” — or, in short, TTYC.
Sideprojects are hard
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Vadim Demedes
Maker of apps and open source projects
Unity: the Good Parts
In my last post, I detailed all the many reasons why I dislike Unity and find it frustrating to work with. Despite all those reasons, I’ve released a commercial game built with Unity and am close to releasing a second. That amounts to several years of working …
Productivity Porn - Caleb Schoepp
I have a pornography problem, but it’s not what you’re thinking. In fact, if you’re anything like me, you might too.
John Forstmeier
Personal website of John Forstmeier
.NET Data Community Standup - CoreWCF: Roadmap and Q&A
CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. The goal of this project is to enable existing WCF services to ...
ZK Whiteboard Sessions
Jigzilla: the puzzle solving robot (part 1)
Visit http://brilliant.org/stuffmadehere to sign up for free. And also, the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium membership. Help support these videos on patreon: https://patreon.com/stuffmadehere I thought this would be an easy project to k…
TikTok’s Poison Pill - Study Hacks
Just a few months ago, it seemed that the biggest social media news of the year would be Elon Musk's flirtations with buying Twitter (see, for example, my article from May). Recently, however, a new story has sucked up an increasing amount of oxygen from this …
Password Purgatory - Making Life Hell for Spammers
Password must contain at least 1 number: Catand dog123
Generate Array of Random AND unique Numbers in JavaScript #shorts
Securing Web APIs with Azure AD: Building the Server
Posts in this series: A Case StudyDesigning Authentication SchemesAuthorizing Client ApplicationsBuilding the ServerFull example In the last couple of posts, we looked at authentication and authorization options and picked some strategies for each. With those …
What’s the Strangest Thing You Ever Found in a Book?
Here’s my story… About 20 years ago or so, I was at a Salvation Army auction one morning. They were selling of tons (literally) of junk they’d had donated to them over the last few year…
AWS Announces Visual Studio 2022 on EC2, and Lambda TypeScript Tools -- Visual Studio Magazine
Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to nod to Microsoft-centric developers, most recently announcing Visual Studio 2022 on Amazon EC2, along with AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript.
Textualize.io - Blog - 7 things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
Textualize.io - Blog - 7 things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
Django 4.1 released | Weblog
Posted by Carlton Gibson on August 3, 2022
Being Swamped is Normal and Not Impressive
Engineer-turned-marketing-consultant for B2B and enterprise software startups.
.NET Conf: Focus on MAUI
Join the .NET Conf free virtual event August 9 to learn about building native apps with .NET MAUI. Mark your calendar!
Chemtrails
STOP Over Engineering Software. Focus on what matters!
Can we, as application developers, stop over engineering software? I hate to use the term engineering even to describe it! I'm guilty of it too. I was writin...
Microsoft Claims Entity Framework Core 7 Faster When Saving Changes
Entity Framework (EF) Core, Microsoft's object-to-database mapper library for .NET Framework, brings performance improvements for data updates in version 7, Microsoft claims. The performance of SaveChanges method in EF7 is up to 74% faster than in EF6, in some…
A first time Grandmaster Titled Arena winner and Nakamura's forbidden platform
The AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 7: Bitfield manipulation
Peeking inside the words.
.NET Foundation - Invidious
Building and using Managed Components with WebCM
This is how Managed Components can be useful for you right now, if you manage a website or if you’re building third-party tools
Matt Warren - Performance in the .NET Runtime - NDC London 2022
We often take the .NET Runtime for granted and just let it get on with its job. But not only does it run our code, it ensures that it runs as fast as possibl...
MIT’s $4 desalination device creates enough drinking water for an entire family
MIT has developed a $4 solar desalination device that could provide a family of four with all the drinking water it needed to survive.
GitHub - moyix/fauxpilot: FauxPilot - an open-source GitHub Copilot server
FauxPilot - an open-source GitHub Copilot server. Contribute to moyix/fauxpilot development by creating an account on GitHub.
Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding environment – TechCrunch
Y Combinator says it has intentionally shrunk the number of startups within its accelerator for the Summer 2022 batch. As first reported by The Information and independently verified by TechCrunch, Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 cohort — currently in action — boas…
Hire me – Amina Adewusi
I am currently looking for a job as I was made redundant in August 2022 due to the changing economic climate. Here is some of the feedback I received from my team:
GitHub - Fewnity/Counter-Strike-Nintendo-DS: Counter Strike port on Nintendo DS
Counter Strike port on Nintendo DS. Contribute to Fewnity/Counter-Strike-Nintendo-DS development by creating an account on GitHub.
Blazor WebAssembly Exception Handling With Error Boundaries
Blazor WebAssembly Error Boundaries allow us to manage unhandled exceptions and display custom error UI when an unhandled exception occurs.
.NET Foundation - Invidious
Getting Started With Basic Bindings in .NET MAUI
Instantly reflecting data changes in our user interface is possible through binding. Let’s see how to bind data in .NET MAUI.
A Full-Stack Web App Using Blazor WebAssembly and GraphQL—Part 5
This article guides in implementing authorization in the Blazor app to restrict access to resources based on the policies defined for the users.
dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace 2022.2 are here! | The .NET Tools Blog
Hello everyone, Alongside the ReSharper 2022.2 and Rider 2022.2 releases, we’ve rolled out major updates for dotCover, dotMemory, dotPeek, and dotTrace. Let’s take a look at what’s new in the
Rider 2022.2 Comes With More C# 11 Features, Performance Improvements, and Extended Unreal Engine Support | The .NET Tools Blog
Hello everyone, The latest major version of Rider is finally here! Let’s take a look at the exciting features Rider 2022.2 has in store. You can download the 2022.2 release build from www.jetbra
Learning .NET MAUI – Part 15 – SQLite
As an experienced XF programmer, you know that there are times you need a relational database, and SQLite has been the mobile db of choice for a very long time. In this post we’ll create a ta…
ReSharper 2022.2 Comes With C# 11 Support, Solution-Wide Analysis Optimizations, and Virtual Formatter | The .NET Tools Blog
Hello everyone, We just released ReSharper 2022.2 and other JetBrains .NET tools and Visual Studio extensions. In this blog post, we’ll go through the highlights of this major update for ReSharper
Azure Neural TTS previews a new contextual voice model for long-form paragraph reading
This blog is co-authored with Shaofei Zhang, Xi Wang, Lei He, Sheng Zhao Azure Neural Text-to-Speech (Neural TTS) has made rapid progress in speech quality, with voice models closely mirror natural speech at the sentence level (see more details here). Howeve…
C# Converting Bytes To Kilobytes and Beyond
Using System.Math to convert bytes to kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes.
Certificate Revocation in Microsoft Edge
When you visit a HTTPS site, the server must present a certificate, signed by a trusted third-party (a Certificate Authority, aka CA), vouching for the identity of the bearer. The certificate conta…
Local .NET MAUI events happening around the world!
.NET MAUI is finally here! With .NET MAUI you can build native, cross-platform desktop and mobile...
Why I Love Still PHP and Javascript After 20+ years
Over the last twenty years, I have used over a dozen languages professionally, from C to Common Lisp, from Java to Python, from C++ to Typescript. Yet, I lov...
Managing Key Vault Secrets from a .NET Console App
To access an Azure Key Vault secret from your code, you must register your key ...
Airflow's Problem
In 2022, data engineers manage forests, not trees
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B2B Music Streaming Services for Brands | Tuned Global
Tuned Global is your 360º B2B music services technology partner. Streaming app or API solutions, we help you to quickly & effectively launch your project.
Go 1.19 Release Notes - The Go Programming Language
The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18. Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go pr…
.NET Data Community Standup - CoreWCF: Roadmap and Q&A
CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. The goal of this project is to enable existing WCF services to ...
.NET Foundation - Invidious
Introducing the Livebook Desktop app 🎉 - Livebook.dev The Livebook Blog
We want Livebook to be accessible to as many people as possible. Before this release, installing Livebook on your machine could be considere...
RailsConf 2022 Conference
This past week I had the privilege of presenting at and attending RailsConf 2022 Conference in Portland, OR. My presentation was titled Puny to Powerful PostgreSQL Rails Apps. This post will focus mainly on my presentation experience.
Sovereign Unicorns: Jiaolong, A $1 Billion Private City in China
Could the next unicorns be private cities? A primer on a 120,000-resident, $5 billion GDP private city experiment in China, plus valuation models on network states.
Inflation explainer
Monzo growth
I've been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and I haven't been able to give a satisfactory answer in a sufficiently short space of time. I thought...
The Startup Data Dilemma
Startups need data to grow, but in order to get data, they need to already be growing. How can startups overcome this to find a scalable way to make data-driven decisions?
A Sustainable Pace Gets You to the Finish Line
One of the first things I tend to discuss with new members upon welcoming them to my research group is a brief plan for their first weeks. I always tell them variations of the following sentence:
The iPhone With A Button Joke — Notes
2/8/2022
Making a PR to Nixpkgs
My rough ramblings on how to contribute a small pr to Nixpkgs
How Would Anti-Instagram Look Like?
Reading all those discussions about the updates to Instagram and how people are turning disillusioned with the app, I began thinking: what would an ideal anti-Instagram service look like? Let's look at the most common complaints and try to find an alternative.…
How to Get Your First Job in UX: A Guide
I get asked this question a lot, so it seems like a good idea to collect my thoughts and turn it into a post - I aim to update this regularly as I think of new things.
Decompiling Android apps – Trickster Dev
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
Minimal Container Images: Towards a More Secure Future
This post walks through the typical approaches in this space — minimal distributions, scratch and “distroless” — finishing with a look at Chainguard’s new, improved version of distroless.
To Be Determined - Generic Recursion Applied to Algebraic Graphs
It would be such a shame if I couldn’t combine Rust, recursion schemes, and graphs into one blog post (with the added bonus of leaving out C++). So here we go!
Rachit Nigam | PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Addressed to my future self