From celebrity gossip to QAnon to COVID denialism, conspiracy thinking has become a hallmark of online public life. It’s up to us dig out the toxicity built into its very foundations, and put the focus back where it belongs: on people and community.
Join us as we discuss the current happenings in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit! https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui
Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.
August 30, 2022
In this post I'll try to explain why not all technical debt is crippling. And what I learned, dealing with technical debt. I'll try to show that:
Do you need a data access layer to abstract your database? Maybe not if you're limiting coupling by organizing around features.
Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability.
Research shows start-ups with experienced founders are more likely to succeed, and build more valuable companies too. But if you want to found a company, how do you get that experience? My experience says the fast-track is joining an existing start-up and ridi…
Deep dive into the internals of the latest Windows Security feature: "Smart App Control"
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The first section of the article inspects the various user personas interacting with DeFi protocols and their individual requirements. The second section identifies various products which solve for these use cases. We mostly look for on-chain use cases which a…
It's an on-demand workshop with labs featuring videos and more that detail the ins and outs of building apps for Microsoft Teams collaboration software and selling those apps in the product's app store.
'If your manager asks you why your project should upgrade to .NET 7, you can say 'in addition to all the new functionality in the release, .NET 7 is super fast.'
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
.NET 7 is fast. Really fast. This post deep-dives into hundreds of performance improvements that contributed to that reality.
Wix.com migrated from a request-reply RPC style system to an event driven architecture and, not surprisingly ran into a few issues. One of the developers wro...
In this session, I'm going to build out a design for a serverless SaaS solution on AWS. This takes into account things like budgetting and technology choices...
In the spirit of falsehoods programmers believe about names and time, here’s some falsehoods about email which are all too common.
Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago. Over that time, our set of services has become much more complicated. With that complexity we have developed policies around how we handle abuse of different features Cloudflare provides
Pretty much a 64-bit-ification of the i386.
D2 is a domain-specific language (DSL) that stands for Declarative Diagramming. Declarative, as in, you write in text what you want diagrammed, we generate it.
I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to cr…
Animate Stable Diffusion by interpolating between two prompts
Let's look at how to test a REST API, using the .NET library xUnit with a live integration, and assert the important aspects of the response.
Follow this tutorial to build your first Teams tab with ASP.NET Core and Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio to boost productivity.
In this post, we’ll look at a few advantages of using TypeScript with React. Then, we’ll set up a React-TypeScript project and go through some of the fundamentals.
Benchmarking allows companies to measure app performance, especially when new functions are added. Learn how to implement benchmarking in a .NET application.
Modernizing, or migrating to modern language features in any language can help make code more readable, efficient and secure. In this blog post, we’ll look at ways to modernize code so it’s better tha
Working through Blazor WASM Debugging issues for JetBrains Rider and Visual Studio
Introduction Over the last decade the industry has seen a shift from traditional application deployment to a faster Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) approach that is causing significant challenges for security teams. These threats on new serv…
Azure App Services can be deployed using the native Azure environment or containers. What's exactly the difference and how this impact us?
Get an introduction to Kubernetes, the de facto standard platform for orchestrating container-based applications.
With Lambda versions and aliases you can setup A/B testing for your functions. This example uses .NET 6 and Lambda Function URLs, but the same principles apply to other languages.
What images were used to train Stable Diffusion's text-to-image AI model? I worked with Simon Willison to make a data browser to explore and search a sample of 12 million images.
A new 'getting started' experience highlights the August 2022 update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code.
Most applications are simple that only require a frontend, an API, and a data storage. However, as more of these applications grow in features, requirement c...
AutoHotkey for Linux (X11-based systems). Contribute to phil294/AHK_X11 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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