17 December 2023

25 links · Sunday

Don’t Wake Me Up Too Soon

‘When you write about people who actually lived, the question of the right distance – not only in terms of time – is constantly on your mind.’

Threads and the Fediverse | Kev Quirk

Lots of people on Mastodon have been losing their shit over Threads joining the fediverse, so I wanted to give my opinion on this whole shit show.

Do Not Type Your Notes

It didn't work for me, and if you reading this, it probably won't work for you either.

How I’m going to build a writing habit in 2024

Once I figured out that the key to building my writing habit was to separate the process of writing from the outcome of publishing, I realized I could do this.

The Triad of Me

In the last few months, I've pondered what constitutes the true "me." This path is, of course, fraught with challenges as the world around me is constantly o...

The Final Speech from The Great Dictator

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible...

bUnit Generators - Generate your stubs automatically

We made a recent addition to bUnit that we think will make your life easier. We call it bUnit Generators. It's a set of code generators that will help you create stubs for your third-party components.

Getting started with .NET Aspire

This post is about installing dotnet aspire. The .NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed apps. .NET Aspire is delivered through a collection of NuGet packages that handle specific cloud-native con…

Alerts

MongoDB Alerts

An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs

For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAs have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the years, as their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass CAPTCHAs have continued to improve. Meanwhile, CAPTCHAs have also evolved in terms of sophisti…

Blazor Web App

Blazor is a full-stack web UI framework that allows you to build modern front-end applications using C#, HTML, CSS and Razor. With the…

Exploring the .NET 8 preview

In this series I explore some of the changes and new features released in the .NET 8 previews.

Why you don't need flake-utils

Learn why flake-utils can fail on you, and some alternative solutions to handling multiple system outputs.

Http.sys Delegation

Http.sys delegation is a kernel level feature added into newer versions of Windows which allows a request to be transferred from the receiving process's http.sys queue to a target process's http.sys queue with very little overhead or added latency. For this de…