30 August 2022

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The what, why, and how of freelancing

There are three ways to make money. Get a job, become a freelancer, or start a business. I'm sure you're familiar with the first. What separates two and three are how you sell and deliver the product.

It's Actors All The Way Down

Contemporary microprocessor designs are based on pervasively shared mutable state. This introduces numerous vulnerabilities that have been exploited to violate the security of our computing platforms. Mechanisms to mitigate these hazards, such as Memory Manage…

Review: The This by Adam Roberts

I had a friend in college who was very good at quitting smoking. Every weekend, she would smoke at parties, and every Monday, she would quit smoking once again. For me, quitting Twitter was more like Hemmingway’s going broke: slowly then all at once. Slowly, I…

Step Counts and Goal-Setting

In yet more at-home-data-science, I recently decided to take a look at my step count history and see what insights I could gain from visualizing the data. I've been using Pedometer++ to track my daily step count since 2014 and the app conveniently provides a C…

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How to get base URL in ASP.NET Core

Learn how to get the base path (schema, domain, and port) in an ASP.NET Core application. Examples for both MVC and Razor Pages are included.

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Don’t think to write, write to think - Herbert Lui

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New IKVM 8.2 & MavenReference for .NET projects

Roughly 2 months ago, a new long-awaited version of IKVM was announced. The killer feature of the 8.2 release is the support of .NET Core. So, now, IKVM can translate JAR files to .NET Core compati…

Announcing TypeScript 4.8

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Stupid Windows Tricks: 01

Ep 01: Secrets of Selecting Windows Audio Source and pausing from amongst multiple sources when you don't know what's playing or where it's coming from!