12 October 2023

42 links · Thursday

I Tried to Play VR With Friends on Quest and it was a Nightmare (Again)

It feels like every time I try to get friends to have some fun in VR with me, the experience is somehow horribly painful. This time I kept a journal of the entire experience to catalogue the struggles seen by real Quest users every day. The advent of Quest was…

I Don't Care

I'm not a mean person. I don't go out of my way to hurt people's feelings. But I also don't care about most people or most things that don't involve me.

Laundry & The Responsibility of Search Engines

I’d like to take you on a journey through the world of scams, laundry, and search engines. In 2016, Foldimate, a California based startup, showed the world a laundry folding robot - it was the size of a washing machine, with a slot in the top for garments that…

Can't Be F*cked: Underrated Cause of Tech Debt

Can’t Be Fucked Aussie slang for not wanting to, or not having the energy and motivation to do something. “Man, i really can’t be fucked changing the channel, let’s just watch Springer.” - Urban Dictionary

Making a Website is for Everyone

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Building a .NET Core Hosted Service

To build websites, desktop applications, and even micro services, .NET Core (also known as.NET 5 and later) has matured into

Blazor 8 State Management

A few months ago I filed an issue for discussion in GitHub regarding managing per-user state in Blazor in .NET 8.

Metric Time Clock

Metric Time Clock

ConcurrentQueue in C#

Explore the power and versatility of C#'s ConcurrentQueue class for building thread-safe, high-performance applications.

Event-Driven Architecture lost it's way

Event Driven Architecture is excellent for decoupling. Or is it? The industry is trending towards losing the value of decoupling. Why? Because of how it's us...

Duende Software Blog

We help companies using .NET to build identity and access control solutions for modern applications.

Oort

Oort is a "programming game" where you write Rust code to control a fleet of spaceships. Your code is responsible for the engines, weapons, radar, and communications of ships ranging from tiny missiles to massive cruisers.

Passwords

Passwords, once hailed as the ultimate security measure, are losing their effect following a push for complexity. It's still important that we create and maintain strong passwords. But what does 'strong' mean?

.NET Rocks! Data Sharding with Oren Eini

What is data sharding, and why do you need it? Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini about his latest work on RavenDB, including the new data sharding feature. Oren talks about the power of sharding a database across multiple servers to improve performance on mas…