11 October 2022

45 links · Tuesday

Internet.nl adds test for security.txt

A new security.txt test component has been added to the Internet.nl website test in collaboration with the Digital Trust Center (DTC).

My essential guidelines for better Django development — /var/

In this article I’d like to present a list of guidelines I follow when I develop Django projects, especially projects that are destined to be used in a production environment for many years. I am using django for more than 10 years as my day to day work tool t…

Do you need a Strong Leader? - Benji's Blog

Helping a team overcome weaknesses requires an appreciation for weakness more than a show of strength. Being the strongest can even be a disadvantage.

black-box debugging of PDF rendering in printers

I was happily typesetting a book with ConTeXt and its new engine LMTX when I decided to print a few pages to see if I got the sizes right. Since I despise printer daemons, I directly print stuff over the network using a little script.

The Rails SaaS Conference

A recount of my experience at the Rails SaaS conference, a "next-generation" conference dedicated to the intersection of business and software development.

Reasons to worry about AGI

We can't even reason about the problem, because humans are bad at reasoning about exponentials; even if we could, we wouldn't worry about it (and the folks closest to the problem are least likely to worry); and even if we did worry, we probably wouldn't be una…

Just Say No To Helper Functions

I wake up in the morning. The sun is bright, the air is warm. The day is Saturday. What do I do? Of course, I settle down with my laptop to write some code. I'm just waking up so I need to start simple to get the ol’ synapses firing.

Microsoft Previews Azure Firewall Basic for Small-Medium Businesses

Microsoft recently released the public preview of Azure Firewall Basic for small-medium businesses (SMBs), providing enterprise-grade security at an affordable price. The company offers the Basic SKU as it sees SMBs as particularly vulnerable to budget constra…

Low-level struct improvements in C# 11

C# 11 brings some major improvements for structs. You remember Span<T>, which you couldn't create? Now you can. C# 11 allows ref fields in a struct. Why this is a cool thing and what you can do with it, you will see in a minute.

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On .NET Live - Learning with Intention

How do you learn new things in .NET and technology? In this week's episode, community member Elahn Danee joins us to discuss exciting updates with .NET Book ...

How Wine works 101

Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD (https://www.winehq.org). If you have been using Linux for some time now, chances are you’ve used Wine at some point…

Bottleneck #03: Product v Engineering

Friction Between Product and Engineering; Lack of trust and collaboration slowing down product growth

What is Matter? - Is Home Assistant obsolete?

Matter version 1.0 was released, so what does that mean, and what is it? Matter: https://buildwithmatter.com/Join this channel to get access to perks:https:/...