16 January 2023

38 links · Monday

Terraform Industries Whitepaper 2.0

Fuel from the sky: Cheap hydrocarbons from CO2 direct air capture and sunlight. (Original post). terraformindustries.com  At Terraform Industries, we believe our species and civilization shoul…

Building something by myself

The largest rushes of adrenaline I've had in my professional life, always came when I was programming. During my PhD days, I was an experimentalist on paper, who worked in the lab. But when I started trying to simulate the microscopic dynamics that I have been…

The End for Third-Party Twitter Clients

Late last week, many third-party Twitter clients stopped working. It didn’t seem to affect all apps — Spring still works for me as of this writing — but the largest ones could no longer connect. Some speculated that this might be a bug. Twitter has had issues …

.NET 7 Brings Networking Improvements

The .NET 7 launch has brought many improvements around the whole API surface of the .NET Framework. In networking operations, .NET 7 improves the capabilities and performance of the existing HTTP and WebSockets protocols. It exposed a new protocol called QUIC …

341: Frank Masters In-App Subscriptions

Finally Frank goes all in on in-app purchases in his apps and talks about how he went about implementing subscriptions in iCircuit.

Property based testing in C#–Part 1

In this multipart blog post I want to introduce you in the world of property-based testing and how to do this in C#. In the first part(thi...

Dots - the friendly .NET SDK manager

Finally found some time to write this post about Dots. It’s my holiday hack 2022/23 and i’m not sure if a post in the middle of January still counts as a “holiday” but here we go. TL;DR Dots is a GUI

Understanding PLINQ in .NET - Code Maze

PLINQ is a powerful library that allows us to parallelize our queries. Here we find out when to use it, and how to do it efficiently.