The best things and stuff of 2022
Pseudo-random ramblings from Fogus.
Work of Art in the age of mechanical reproduction - Artur Piszek
Is AI art "Art"? In my quest for answers, I dug up 1935 essay titled "Work of Art in the age of mechanical reproduction"
How to Evaluate Frameworks and Libraries: A Guide to Key Metrics
Introduction
Meaning, simpliciter and secundum quid
Assume you agree (a) my life is not ultimately meaningful. Can you nevertheless still say (b) my life is meaningful to me? (NB I’m leaving aside the division of ultimate happiness into an ab…
animal vision
edition 42
recursion
edition 39
Is San Francisco “back”? I audited its parties to find out
I lately had the luck to return to San Francisco for the first time since the pandemic, and I was very keen to discover whether the place was “back”. There had much been much talk on te…
Asking for clarity is always great feedback
Bike shedding is a real thing. I think about it a lot when reviewing code. I try to see the big picture and ignore small nitpicks in favour of reviewing the overall architecture and intent of a cha…
Carlin Eng
Homepage of Carlin Eng
Geometric determinant formulas with projective coordinates
Why are equations in geometry often expressed as determinants with a column of 1s?
Instruments of Destruction – Alexander Wales
Author’s Note: This is largely a story about project management. Adherence to canon not guaranteed.
Low downtime Postgres upgrade: I want to believe (part I)
Postgres is a great database, one of developer’s favourites, but upgrades are far from easy and smooth. The journey of selecting an optimal solution and weighing its trade-offs and risks is always an exciting challenge.
Easing Deployment Without Containers
A blog about free software and programming
Wayland RDP Server with audio using Microsoft's WSLg stack
I spent some time playing with the Microsoft's modified Weston/PulseAudio/FreeRDP stack. This is what Windows is using to display GUI Linux apps under WSL. I primarily use Linux and I use Linux remote desktops quite a bit. I use xrdp, freerdp, x11vnc, vinag…
Postmortem of Butt Mover
Why my back pain reducing game didn't work out.
The Kitchen Massacre | Sausage Party | CineClips
Barry and Carl witness a gory massacre in the Great Beyond.Watch now on Google Play! - https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Sausage_Party?id=T_M3Mp6z...
The Kitchen Massacre | Sausage Party | CineClips
Barry and Carl witness a gory massacre in the Great Beyond.Watch now on Google Play! - https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Sausage_Party?id=T_M3Mp6z...
Episode 47: Application Security - with Tanya Janca
In this episode, I was joined by Tanya Janca to chat about Application Security (or AppSec for short!). We chatted about various topics - from security topics and training, to her book and online community, to public speaking! Tanya is the founder and CEO at W…
Try out Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 2
I’m excited to share today we released Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2! Your feedback goes directly to the product team working to deliver you the best developer IDE. We welcome your feedback on Developer Community where we are always eager to hear your sugg…
How Wolverine allows for easier testing
Yesterday I blogged about the new Wolverine alpha release with a sample that hopefully showed off how Wolverine’s different approach can lead to better developer productivity and higher perfo…
Amazing CTO
Startups use too much technology. My advice: Use Postgres for everyting
.NET Framework December 2022 Security and Quality Rollup Updates
December 2022 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework
.NET December 2022 Updates – .NET 7.0.1, .NET 6.0.12, .NET Core 3.1.32
Check out December updates for .NET 7.0., .NET 6.0, and .NET Core 3.1
ASP.NET Community Standup - Blazor .NET 8 Planning
Find out our early plans for Blazor in .NET 8 and let us know what you think!Community Links: https://www.theurlist.com/blazor-community-linksFeaturing: Dani...
Introducing Shitify — A Reverse Linter. Add errors to your code.
Shitify.js is a new tool that’s shaking up the world of software development. It’s a reverse linter, which means it adds errors to your…
MAUI Sounds Amazing. Is It?
A blog about dev: web and mobile, especially .Net, OSS and CI.
Azure DevOps Podcast: Jeff Fritz: Evolving Cloud Architecture - Episode 222
Jeff Fritz is an experienced developer, technical educator, and PM on the .NET team at Microsoft. He founded The Live Coders team on Twitch, and regularly livestreams builds of websites and fun applications. You can follow Jeff for more .NET, .NET Core, and Vi…
Thank you for conference announcement, but it would help if you told me what your conference was about
There was an announcement of an all-day Microsoft-internal conference featuring a project I will call Project Enzyme. The announcement went like this: The Project Enzyme Forum is our flagship community conference that brings together engineers, project manager…
What's New in .NET Community Toolkit v8.1.0 Preview 1
Microsoft’s .NET Community Toolkit’s latest version, v.8.1.0, recently reached its first preview release. The release brings several new features and improvements to the toolkit: improvements to the MVVM source generator performance and the addition of custom …
Nullable Types in C# - Code Maze
In this article, we discussed the Nullable types in C#. We talked about nullable value types and Nullable reference types.
Sands of MAUI: Issue #84
Welcome to the Sands of MAUI—newsletter-style issues dedicated to bringing together latest .NET MAUI content relevant to developers.
Introduction to MongoDB: Zero To Document Hero – Webinar Recording | The .NET Tools Blog
The recording for Zero To Document Hero: Introduction to MongoDB, with Developer Advocate at MongoDB, Luce Carter is now available on YouTube. https://youtu.be/u5y_aUP5Td0 Once upon a time, re
Text Classification in C# with ML.NET 2.0
Let's take a look at how ML.NET 2.0's new Text Transformer features can be used to perform multi-class classification and map utterances to intents.
Simulating the Wrapinator 5000 ·
04 Dec 2022
When do tests fail?
Optimise for the common scenario.
The Equinox Programming Model
My team at birdie recently moved from a home-rolled event-sourcing library to Equinox in one of our services. Equinox describes itself as a set of low-dependency libraries allowing event-sourced processing against stream-based stores. While this description is…
Treating Devs Like Human Beings | A Conversation w/ Kelly Vaughn, Jean Hsu & Lena Reinhard
Sometimes among all the sprints, the pressure to ship faster, tools to measure lines of code written, it seems like we as an industry forget a simple fact: developers are knowledge workers, not robots To remind us what it means to be a human, we invited some o…
Hydropower Breakthrough
Copyleft-licensed chess engine wins legal case against proprietary counterpart - FSFE
Copyleft ensures that Free Software remains Free. Stockfish filed a lawsuit when ChessBase distributed parts of Stockfish work under a proprietary license,...