6 April 2023

38 links · Thursday

Style Conformance for Blind Developers: Sonica

Sonica is a VSCode extension that provides audio cues for rulers, principally aimed at visually impaired developers. The primary use case is to be able to easily respect line limits, by having cues when specific positional boundaries get crossed. The code is a…

Inlining SVGs for Dark Mode

I will here indulge in the traditional practice of using my blog to talk about how I’m using my blog. This page is built with the Hugo static site generator. I recently updated it to use the latest version of the beautifulhugo theme, which unbeknownst to me in…

The Autocomplete Myth

AI naysayers often disparage chatGPT by dismissing it as a glorified autocomplete. Supposedly it repeatedly computes the next likely word and selects it at random based on weighted probabilities. I…

Rest in Peace, Reddit Compact

Reddit has recently disabled/removed access to the compact interface, which was useful on mobile and low power devices. As my first professional project ever, I'd like to reflect on it, 13 years the wiser.

Weekly Update 342

When is Next Friday; Garage Progress; More Ubiquiti & More IoT; Genesis Market and “Operation Cookie Monster"; Sponsored by Kolide

Can you use ChatGPT in VS Code??

A hands-on look at the new GitHub Copilot Chat features coming soon to VS Code.Sign-up for early access: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2023/03/30/vscod...

Protect your domain with Zone Holds

Protect against accidental additions of your domain, subdomain, or custom hostnames in other accounts with Zone Holds. Available by default for all enterprise customers

GitHub - snarkify/arkmsm

Contribute to snarkify/arkmsm development by creating an account on GitHub.

WiX v4 and HeatWave v1 Released

Nineteen years ago today, WiX was first made available as an open-source project. Nineteen years later, WiX is still going strong, with the release of WiX v4 and the simultaneous release from FireGiant of HeatWave v1.

Making Entity Framework Core As Fast As Dapper

Check out my courses: https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsasHello, everybody, I'm Nick, and ...

Sponsored ISO standards for PDF technology

Announcing no-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) Download the ISO 32000-2 bundle NOW! April 5, 2023 | WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS

JSON vs XML - CoRecursive Podcast

Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a bette…

What’s new in MSIX: April 2023

The latest build of MSIX Packaging Tool (v1.2023.319.0) and the latest version of MSIXMGR are now available. With MSIX app attach as a growing phenomenon in the enterprise, this release fixes the “paper cuts” in the app attach enablement process. Here is a run…

Build Minimal APIs in .NET 7

Minimal APIs offer a streamlined approach to constructing HTTP APIs with minimal dependencies, making them perfect for microservices and applications that aim to incorporate only the essential files, features, and dependencies within ASP.NET Core. We just publ…

Managing Large Repositories with Git LFS

Learn how Git LFS can help you manage large repositories efficiently. Streamline your workflow, reduce repository size, and improve performance.

Explainer: File Types

On all popular computing systems, all files, at their most basic, are a series of bits (0 or 1), organized into a stream of bytes, each of which uses 8 bits to encode any of 256 possible values. Re…

Release v0.5.0 · DamianEdwards/RazorSlices

Available on NuGet at https://www.nuget.org/packages/RazorSlices/0.5.0 What's Changed Add a unicode example by @DamianEdwards in #16 Add ability to render slice to a stream by @DamianEdwards in #1...