27 September 2022

103 links · Tuesday

.NET GC Internals - 06. Compact phase

The sixth episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. This episode is about the Compact phase, happening ...

.NET GC Internals - 07. Allocations

The seventh episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. Let's switch the topic! This episode is not about...

.NET GC Internals - 08. Generations

The eighth episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. In this episode I will cover the concept of genera...

Intro to Graphics 08 - WebGL

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

A Simple Scam Trick (Don't get fooled!)

How can a scammer convince people that he can predict the stock market or the price of cryptocurrencies? The trick is surprisingly simple. Learn how it works...

Using DHT22 Temperature Sensor (ESP32 + Arduino series)

Measure temperature and humidity with the DHT22 (AM2302) sensor. This is a cheap & accurate sensor that integrates easily into many IoT projects.⚡️Other vide...

SpaceX & Starlink: Is Satellite Internet a Good Idea?

SpaceX plans to launch 12,000 satellites to provide world-wide internet coverage with Starlink. Is that a good idea? How fast can satellite be? Is it safe to...

What is FreeRTOS? (ESP32 + Arduino series)

Want to multitask on your ESP32? By using FreeRTOS you won't have to worry about scheduling your tasks and making sure that all of them are given enough proc...

Someone is pretending to be me.

One random day - someone spills the beans. They were picked to impersonate me and get a job using my information.

How To Install PlatformIO (ESP32 + Arduino series)

Setting up PlatformIO inside Visual Studio Code for ESP32 development.PlatformIO is just an extension to Visual Studio Code and includes a library manager, a...

Software & Hardware Used in Formula 1

Save 20% on F1 TV through my referral link:https://referme.to/xavierd-8(Not sponsored. I get a small kickback when you subscribe while you save 20%.)F1 cars ...

.NET GC Internals - 05. Sweep phase

The fifth episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. This episode is about the Sweep phase, and its Conc...

Intro to Graphics 10 - Curves (Part 2)

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 07 - GPU Pipeline

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

Intro to Graphics 09 - Curves (Part 1)

Introduction to Computer Graphics.School of Computing, University of Utah.Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5kGd5o...

6 Months as a Full Time Pancreas

Managing our Son’s Type 1 Diabetes with Multiple Daily Injections and Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitor

The rings of share - the unsolved problem of sharing

Recently (last Saturday), I went to the Colombo Street Food Festival. It was a bit crowded for my liking but had awesome music and good beer. I snapped some photos of the event, recorded some clips of the music, and snapped some more photos with the others who…

Real World Micro Services

Over the years I’ve become pretty frustrated by the state of tech and engineering in general. One of the biggest issues we face in the industry is the lack of reusability in software. GitHub made a major revolutionary change for developers, enabling all of us …

Upside Down Backups - IvyMike.dev

An Upside-Down Backup Strategy I have a strange way of doing backups these days. When I save something, the master copy is in the cloud. If a file exists only on my local drive, it's not safe....

What Is a Circulant Matrix?

An $latex n imes n$ circulant matrix is defined by $latex n$ parameters, the elements in the first row, and each subsequent row is a cyclic shift forward of the one above: $latex otag C = egin…

Evaluating New Tools

I was reading about Phoenix today, looking at guides and documentation. It’s great to see in a guide when it’s easy to quickly set up a project, that makes it fun to get started and explore. The most exciting thing about Phoenix is that “reactivity”, or live u…

How This Website Works

This is a brief manual of how to write and publish pages on this website. It's mainly documentation for my future self, but may also be interesting to people who'd like to set up their own website without content management system (CMS), static site generator …

AirPods Pro 2 Review: 1 Underrated Thing!

AirPods Pro take computational audio to the limits, which makes them hard to review, but great to listen toThe water bottle: http://shop.MKBHD.comGet a dbran...

AirPods Pro 2 Review: 1 Underrated Thing!

AirPods Pro take computational audio to the limits, which makes them hard to review, but great to listen toThe water bottle: http://shop.MKBHD.comGet a dbran...

0 A.D.: Empires Ascendant

0 A.D. is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers.

Visual Studio for Mac 17.4 Preview 2.1 is now available

We are pleased to announce the second preview release of Visual Studio for Mac 17.4. This release has been focused on addressing feedback from customers and on improving the overall experience. If you are already using the Visual Studio for Mac Preview release…

Seismolog: Två explosioner intill Nord Stream

Gasläckorna på Nord Stream 1 och 2 utreds av tyska myndigheter som medvetna attacker. Nu kan SVT avslöja att mätstationer i både Sverige och Danmark registrerade kraftiga undervattensexplosioner i samma område som gasläckorna under måndagen. – Det är ingen tve…

Cloudflare named a Leader in WAF by Forrester

Forester has recognised Cloudflare as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022 report. The report evaluated 12 Web Application Firewall (WAF) providers on 24 criteria across current offering, strategy and market presence.

Securing Web APIs with Azure AD: Connecting External Clients

Posts in this series: A Case StudyDesigning Authentication SchemesAuthorizing Client ApplicationsBuilding the ServerEnabling Local DevelopmentConnecting External ClientsFull example In the previous post, we looked at enabling local development by creating an A…

Ian McConnell - Quitting (The Way I Wrote It)

I wrote this in December.Text me yo: (615) 908-2088Check out my Patreon page for unreleased songs and oversharing: https://www.patreon.com/IanmcconnellFollow...

Pattern matching is awesome

Pattern matching, which was introduced in C# 9, is a hell of a beast and does more than you might think. In this small blog post I show you where the magic is and what it does under the hood.

Announcing general availability for Azure Functions v4 .NET framework support in an isolated process

In light of our recent .NET on Azure Functions Roadmap update, we’re excited to share today that Azure functions v4 now generally supports .NET framework 4.8 in an isolated process.     You can now build production Serverless Apps with Azure Functions v4 in th…

I love the composition of the C# Open XML SDK

Recently I had to generate an export with some basic data. Unfortunately, CSV was not an option, a proper Excel file was required. There are quite a few options for generating Excel files, but most are wrappers around the Open XML SDK, and I don't really like …

The Animated Tripod

Provided to YouTube by Ninja TuneThe Animated Tripod · The Cinematic OrchestraMan With A Movie Camera℗ Ninja TuneMusic Publisher: Just Isn't MusicAuto-gener...

[Last Week in .NET #102] – MAUIing Figma

Lies Developers tell themselves include, “I can get this done in a week, including testing”. Ouch. 🙈 Dev from Twitter remarks unironically that one of the perks of working at Twitter is…

Ian McConnell - Quitting (The Way I Wrote It)

I wrote this in December.Text me yo: (615) 908-2088Check out my Patreon page for unreleased songs and oversharing: https://www.patreon.com/IanmcconnellFollow...