Use your phone less by using grayscale mode
By changing the colors on your phone's display to shades of gray, your phone will become less visually appealing and can help reduce your temptation to use it.
Transfer many large files from Android
Trying to get a large number of files from your Android phone, but Android File Transfer freezing up?
How I Deal With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as a Software Developer
Warning: This blog post is not sponsored by Logitech! Although it would be nice if it was, wink wink ;) My wrists got their share from spending hours writing code every day. At the end of every night, I would feel pain in my elbow and a tingling sensation in m…
Mark Zuckerberg Has Never Done Anything Original and I Can Prove It · Notes
Young, billionaire, CEO and owner of majority voting power of a global company that owns apps and social networks used by billions of people every day. I am talking, of course, about Mark Zuckerberg. Those who read this resume and know Zuck’s story m…
Software complexity and potential solutions
I started my morning off with Alan Kay's talk Programming and Scaling. There are several things I agree with and disagree with in that talk. It got me thinking about software as a whole, and my part to play in it.
AWS re:Invent 2022 - A day in the life of a billion requests (SEC404)
Every day, sites around the world authenticate their callers. That is, they verify cryptographically that the requests are actually coming from who they clai...
AWS re:Invent 2022 - A day in the life of a billion requests (SEC404)
Every day, sites around the world authenticate their callers. That is, they verify cryptographically that the requests are actually coming from who they clai...
The Security Design of the AWS Nitro System
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. The AWS Nitro System is the underlying platform for all modern EC2…
Weekly Update 326
John Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- InsideTracker: https:...
David Ortinau – Microsoft PM .NET MAUI
David Ortinau, Program Manager .NET and voice of .NET MAUI discusses MAUI as a platform, Blazor Hybrid, Community Toolkits, as well as what’s on the road map for .NET MAUI. What’s your …
High-performance services with gRPC: What's new in .NET 7 | .NET Conf 2022
"gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework used by developers around the world to build fast apps.In this talk you will learn about what’s new in gRPC for .NE...
Weekly Update 326
Alexandre Nédélec - When Pulumi met Nuke: a .NET love story
Today is a great time to be a developer:
Scaffolding .NET Web APIs Powered By EF Core, SQL, & Azure in Seconds
Do you need to build Web APIs with .NET & ASP.NET Core? Stop writing all of the code manually and let Visual Studio or the CLI scaffold it all for you! Did y...
Scaffolding .NET Web APIs Powered By EF Core, SQL, & Azure in Seconds
Do you need to build Web APIs with .NET & ASP.NET Core? Stop writing all of the code manually and let Visual Studio or the CLI scaffold it all for you! Did y...
John Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:- InsideTracker: https:...
Small Functions considered Harmful
In this post, I aim to:
Security Research on Twitter: Before and After Musk’s Takeover - Dhole Moments
I got banned for criticizing Twitter’s security, as I’ve done often in the past without repercussion.
How I won two categories in my first hackathon...
Last weekend I attended my first ever hackathon and won two categories and here’s the story of how I did it!
Instant Landing Page - Killing a Startup Idea Quickly
How we investigated a startup idea around instant landing pages, went through our validation process and decided to stop pursuing it in just a few days of work.
Consistent > Idiomatic
As a software engineer, I've learned that consistency in code is crucial for the long-term success of a project, even when it means deviating from idiomatic principles.
A Different Approach to Social Media
An alternative to social media feeds
Launching a rocket in the worst possible way
Taking the humble <marquee> tag where no HTML tag has gone before.
Bias and performance
TL;DR: It's easier to perform well in a group if your social environment considers you to be a good performer.