10 November 2023

56 links · Friday

Why Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V

What RISC-V will do is give our customers is an extra option when seeking to minimize power consumption in certain applications where the (many) tradeoffs of not using an Arm-based core are acceptable.

C# for Beginners

Join Scott Hanselman and .NET Distinguished Engineer David Fowler as they teach us C# from the ground up! From Hello World to LINQ and more, Scott and David ...

Interactive LINQ tutorial, especially for beginners

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a powerful feature of C# that allows you to query data from different data sources. It is a must-have skill for every C# developer. That is why I created: https://linqmarbles.info/

We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus

Obviously, I'm talking about Elon Musk. (He named SpaceX's drone ships after Iain M. Banks spaceships, thereby proving that irony is dead). But he's not the only one. There's Peter Thiel (who funds research into artificial intelligence, life extension, and sea…

Dev Database To Go

A "Dev Database To Go" is a database that only exist when you need it, and free up resources when not coding.

Nonprofit Cyber Launches World More Than A Password Day

Nonprofit Cyber Launches World More Than A Password Day Coalition of nonprofit organizations releases groundbreaking Common Guidance on Passwords with 90 signatories globally New York, November 10,…

Weekly Update 373

The Scraped and Faked LinkedIn Data; Ransomware Leaks Uptick; Rolling to “Serverless” SQL Azure

.NET Conf 2023 MLSA MIET | MLSA MIET

🚀 Elevate Your Skills in C# and .NET! 🎁 Attend an After Party for FREE swags! 🆓 It's all FREE! Celebrate major .NET releases. 🎉 Join us on November 18, 2023, for our exciting after-party, where we

Switching to Elixir

A few months ago I started a new job at a company that uses Elixir as its main language on the backend. I've never written a line of Elixir or Erlang before in my life, but I've heard a lot about it and Erlang is familiar because I've played around with Prolog…

.NET Conf 2023 Delhi

🗓 Date: November 17⏰ Time: 10:00 AM 📍 Venue: Auditorium, GGSIPU-EDC

.Net Conf 2023 Wits University

We are excited to extend an invitation to you for the .Net Conf 2023 At Wits University on the 17th of November 2023.🥳🥳We are thrilled to showcase the latest innovations in the .Net framework and provide a platform for students to come together, learn and ne…

Episode 478 - The Azure Help API

The team catches up with Nithya Sivam and Joshua Min who explain how Azure is democratizing access to the self-help content accessible in the Azure Portal. The Help API makes it easier to integrate this self-help into your own workflow.

ASP.NET Core News - 11/10/2023

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I Skipped to the Ending

When I was 8 years old I started making websites with my friend. His grandmother had purchased him a domain name and web hosting. It was 2003 and the world was whispering of Web 2.0. Books I checked out of the library talked about DHTML (dynamic HTML, basicall…

Every New Feature Added in C# 12

Use code EF20 and get 20% off the brand new "Entity Framework Core in .NET" course on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/from-zero-to-hero-entity-framew...

Intuiting Latency and Throughput

Although they may seem highly technical, you've already experienced both concepts - and why they matter - if you've ever done a load of laundry.

TypeScript Generics: Striking the Right Balance

In the evolving landscape of TypeScript, Generics have emerged as a powerful tool, enabling developers to write flexible, type-safe, and reusable code. This tutorial delves into the essence of generics in TypeScript, guiding developers on their effective use. …

Understanding Git: The history and internals

If you’re a developer who has been putting off understanding how Git works under the hood, then this guide is for you. For those of us who get by with only knowing a few commands, Git can be a little mystifying:

Use the index, Luke!

While investigating some database related performance issues, I discovered the following website:   This site explains everything you as...

Monaspace

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

Release WCF 6.2 · dotnet/wcf

Release Notes Package Info System.ServiceModel.Http 6.2.0 System.ServiceModel.NetFramingBase 6.2.0 System.ServiceModel.NetTcp 6.2.0 System.ServiceModel.NetNamedPipe 6.2.0 System.ServiceModel.Primi...

WHAT CHANGED IN COFFEE OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS? — Scott Rao

When I was in Rotterdam in August, I had coffee with my friend Han. She asked me two interesting questions when I told her I had been in coffee for 30 years:  What changed over the past 30 years?  What beliefs did you once hold and decide were w…

An Overdue Apology — Kenneth Reitz

I would like to apologize to the Python community (and specifically the Requests maintainers) for a lack of transparency (which is best-practice) around the fundraiser and my intentions with Requests III. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Everything about SEO is obnoxious

“Search Engine Optimization” Blech. I hate it. This is what SEO should be: Write content on the internet. Make sure it is output in semantic, accessible HTML. Make sure the performance …

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Work. • Chris Zacharias

“Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Work.” I remember Jessica Livingston telling our YCombinator batch this in our first week of the Summer 2011 session. As a first time founder, I was terrified that I was expected to never see my friends or family again and... | Chris Zac…

Securing HTML fragments returned by API endpoints

A web application frontend often performs requests to a backend API. Even though this API is only supposed to be used by the frontend, it is usually also accessible with a browser. An attacker can use this to exploit vulnerabilities.

The LEGO Arbitrage

Generate miniscule amounts of LEGO Insiders points at zero cost, except lots of time and effort.