11 November 2022

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Do What Works!

“Life is all about doing what you feel is best for you." — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Breaking the Frontend Monolith

In this article, you will learn about the challenges that arise when migrating a typical frontend monolith to microfrontends. You will hear about common practices from Domain Driven Design, that will help you draw boundaries in your monolith, which in the end …

Founders: Your employees’ first challenge is you

For the better part of the last 15 years, I’ve worked with start-ups and scale-ups in many capacities: co-founder, employee, consultant, advisor, mascot. Ok, maybe not the last one, but you get the idea 🙂

Molly Guard for Ansible | Paul's page

The Jargon File defines Molly Guard as: A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer’s toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed…

Hard Reset

Hard Reset: Or, How Not to Drive Your Company Off A Cliff

Shells need strict typing

Command line shells are interactive programs for running other programs. To run a program, just type its name followed by a list of arguments. This rudimentary language does not know any other types than strings, so the name of the program and all of its argum…

You don't need to start with a niche - Life Programming

For the last few years, I've been trying to find a topic to actually work on to develop a side project. I had quite a few ideas, but always got stuck on the "find people and understand their needs part", because I did not know people in the domain to talk to, …

Dr. Darjan Salaj

Personal Website of Darjan Salaj, a student at TUG (Graz University of Technology).

Missing Apache Airflow, is that even possible?

It’s been more than a year that I have been introduced to AWS Step Functions and my team decided to use them for our internal data workflows. It all started aiming to support all our ETL processes to extract data from our various databases, external platforms …

Weekly Update 321

Canberra Travels; Mastodon Experiences; HTML Email Signature Pain; The New HIBP Rate Limits and Annual Billing; Medibank

2022 US midterm elections attack analysis

For Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns participant websites, overall traffic volume ramped as Election Day approached

Join the C# Discord Server!

We are a programming server aimed at coders discussing everything related to C# (CSharp) and .NET. | 39,619 members

Your words are wasted

It needs to be said again, perhaps this time more strongly. Your Blog is The ...

Institute for the Study of War

Ukrainian forces steadily advanced in Kherson Oblast on November 10 as Russian forces conduct a withdrawal to the east (left) bank of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian military officials and geolocated social media footage confirm that Ukrainian troops have

Visual Studio 2022 17.4 is now available!

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.4 is now generally available. This is our first GA release to support Arm64. In addition some of the other prominent features it includes are .NET 7, enterprise support for setup including rollback,

Gorillas (video game) - Wikipedia

Gorillas, also known under the source code's file name GORILLA.BAS, is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1991 by Microsoft.[1] It is a turn-based artillery game.[2] With allusions to King Kong, the game consists of two gorillas thro…

Automatically rotate the password of a service principal

Secrets sprawl is a significant security risk for an organization. When using service principals, you want to ensure that passwords are rotated. PIM and Azure Automation allow you to secure your identities.

.NET Conf 2022

NET Conf is our annual virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft and sponsored by the .NET Foundation and ecosystem partners. ...

How to get feedback for your saas product?

Getting feedback and prioritizing it for development is hard. Here are 4 steps on how you can handle it, with real examples, so you don’t build unused features.

Work hard / work smart.

Twitter, Lyft, Stripe and several other companies had major layoffs last week, and with the undeniable tragedy of layoffs, a frequent debate has reemerged. Are the tech employees working hard enough? Is working hard a sign of puritanical virtue? Are long hours…

Nick Craver (@Nick_Craver@infosec.exchange)

0 Posts, 39 Following, 71 Followers · Dad and Principal Software Engineer Microsoft working on Azure. Formerly Stack Overflow. I build very fast things to improve life for millions of developers.

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You can finally disable Snap updates

During the Ubuntu Summit, a long-awaited feature was quietly released for preview: You can now completely turn off automatic updates of snaps. “The snap refresh --hold command holds, or postpones, snap updates for individual snaps, or for all snaps on the syst…

How a Cheap Flight Email Newsletter Makes Money (And How Much)

We're opening up the hood to show you how a cheap flight newsletter makes money. We'll briefly cover how we make money, how much revenue and profit we make, and how it all fits together.

A Simple Computation Engine in F#

I’m in one of those reflective periods where I’m catching up on books I should have read earlier; Thomas Pynchon, Neal Stephenson, and the like. In Software Engineering one of those books is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). SICP is kno…

Elon Musk should pay me to run Twitter.

Elon bought a Rolls-Royce and decided the best thing to do is drive it around like a McLaren. Do I need to remind you how that turned out last time? If most ...