Signals vs Streams, in terms of backpressure (2023)
Streams (event streams) represent an async sequence of discrete events, like key presses or network packets or financial transactions.
You don't need a modern computer!
Using hardware a decade old (2012) as a software developer in 2023
The serenity prayer and being a senior developer
The serenity prayer, for those who don’t know it is: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. I think …
Slightly Intelligent Home | Gabriel's Blog
Generated with the Midjourney bot "An internet connected house" I'm not overly-eager to automate my whole home. Leaving aside security concerns, it's also really, really expensive. However, there are some small quality-of-life things I've added over time or k…
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Layoffs, Anxiety and Trust
Ultimately this is what will define your culture and your employee engagement. Do your actions match your words? It's not enough to say you care about mental health, diversity, or developing the people who work for you. You had better put something behind that…
Veraport: Inside Korea’s dysfunctional application management
While Wizvera Veraport is supposed to manage security applications easily, it suffers from a number of design flaws. In the worst case, these can lead to arbitrary websites installing malicious applications without the user noticing.
Moving from numeric ID to UUID in existing app
Why you should migrate to UUIDs?
Bun vs Node Benchmark - no one cares about speed as much as your CI does
Bun is fast. But honestly I almost don't care that much about the fact that it can handle more requests. What matters for me is how much it affects my dev experience. And I'll give you a TLDR; It's amazing! See how Bun performs in a non-typical benchmark.
Startup Mistakes - Navigating Mentor Feedback
Having mentors is important in all parts of life. The startup world is no exception as you do not have the luxury of spending time making trivial mistakes or operating aimlessly.
Developer to Security Engineer career pivot
As I described in the previous post, some events might have a powerful influence on our lives and careers. And today I’d like to share the experience of a ma...
Azure DevOps Podcast: Christian Wenz: ASP .NET Core Security - Episode 233
Christian Wenz works as a consultant, trainer, and author with a focus on web technologies and is the author or co-author of over 100 computer books. He regularly contributes to various IT magazines and speaks at conferences around the globe. Christian holds a…
Ergomake | Environments-as-a-Service
Deploy previews from a docker-compose.yml for every pull-request. Spin-up remote development environments from the terminal.
Finally published to the Terraform Cloud public registry
Hey everyone, Great news! The modules that power the TNT Architecture and Super Router projects for scaling VPCs and TGWs in AWS have been published to the Terraform Cloud public registry at v1.0.0, like FINALLY! Tiered VPC-NG Centralized Router (includes Gene…
I Have Been Doing CDN Caching Wrong
One of the nice things that reaching the HN frontpage gives you is that your website,or content in general, will get flooded by requests by the community. Th...
If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
How long could my app continue to function completely on its own?
The Page with No Code - Chris Coyier
Dan Q’s demo is pretty fun. You’ll see a white page in anything but Firefox. But in Firefox you’ll see a webpage-looking webpage only if you View Source you’ll see nothing at all. This is a classic CSS trick that relies on the fact that Firefox lets you apply …
A Guide to Reclaim Our Attention
We’re losing our capacity to focus. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, little we knew how much that would change the world, it was the first step towards the ubiquity of smartphones. There was a premonitory phrase from Steve Jobs: “iPhone is like having…
Nix Quickstart
Nix seems to stump a lot of newcomers. I had a few failed starts at trying at Nix myself, but I now find myself at a happy amount of knowledge where Nix is more helpful than hurtful.
52 Factorial
They seem harmless enough, 52 thin slices of laminated cardboard with colorful designs printed on their sides. Yet, as another illustration of the mantra that complexity begins from the most simple systems, the number of variations that these 52 cards can pro…
Software Engineering Report Ranks TypeScript Among Top Skills to Learn/Know -- Visual Studio Magazine
TypeScript ranked fourth on the survey-based report when respondents were asked 'What are the top 3 skills software engineers should learn/know right now in your opinion?'
csharplang/primary-constructors.md at main · dotnet/csharplang
The official repo for the design of the C# programming language - csharplang/primary-constructors.md at main · dotnet/csharplang
The Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET: Reliability (Part 2)
Welcome to the Enterprise App Pattern - Reliable Web Apps series of videos where you'll learn best practices and gain prescriptive guidance on how to build b...
Write a First Person Game in 2KB With Rust
Learn about ray casting and discover some fun math by creating a tiny 2KB game with Rust.
I made JSON.parse() 2x faster
Adventures in hacking Hermes VM’s C++ internals for fun and profit
Caveat Implementor! Key Recovery Attacks on MEGA
MEGA is a large-scale cloud storage and communication platform that aims to provide end-to-end encryption for stored data. Recent work by Backendal, Haller and Paterson invalidated these security claims by showing practical attacks against MEG…
I can create a read-only page, but why not a write-only page? - The Old New Thing
At the end of the day, it comes down to processor support.
The Awesome New Queue of .NET 6 That You Skipped
Check out my courses: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello everybody I'm Nick and in ...
Testing Roslyn Incremental Source Generators - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to write a test to ensure a Roslyn Incremental Source Generator is working as expected.
TimeSpan in C# - Code Maze
In this article, we take a look at the TimeSpan value type in C#. We explore the fields, properties, and methods that it has to offer us.
Return Multiple Values to a Method Caller In C# - Code Maze
This article covers how to return multiple values to a method caller in C# with five different scenarios and implementations.
348: ChatGPT Comes to the Command Line
Frank builds a command line interface for ChatGTP with .NET!
Auto sign-out using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages with Azure AD B2C
This article shows how an ASP.NET Core Razor Page application could implement an automatic sign-out when a user does not use the application for n-minutes. The application is secured using Azure AD…
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.NET MAUI: Top 5 New Features for Powerful Desktop App Development
Discover the top 5 .NET MAUI features for desktop apps: multi-window support, top-level menu bar, context menus, tooltips, and pointer gestures. Transform your app development with these essential features, enhancing user experience and device capabilities. Ma…
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Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography
Our word-as-image illustrations concentrate on changing only the geometry of the letters to convey the meaning. We deliberately do not change color or texture and do not use embellishments. This allows simple, co…
Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography
A word-as-image is a semantic typography technique where a word illustration presents a visualization of the meaning of the word, while also preserving its readability. We present a method to create word-as-image illustrations automatically. This task is highl…
Imperative code is simpler than functional code! No, not at all, but you are more used to it. – planetgeek.ch
A myth about F# that I hear repeatedly is that imperative code (e.g. loops) is simpler than functional code (e.g. folds). On one hand, simplicity is very subjective. On the other hand, simplicity is mostly determined by familiarity.
Akka.NET v1.5 is Now Available
As of today, Akka.NET v1.5 is now available as a stable release package on NuGet for both .NET Standard 2.0 and NET 6.0. This is a big release aimed at addressing pain points for current Akka.NET users.
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ChatGPT and the Future of Everything
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