27 January 2024

29 links · Saturday

Sxmo: Simple X mobile

A minimalist linux smartphone environment that is truly yours to control! Sxmo, or Simple X Mobile, is a collection of simple and suckless X programs and scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for the Pinep…

Please, don’t force me to log in

The current accelerating trend of requiring accounts and logins for everything has to stop.

Proposed Top-Level Domain String for Private Use

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has made a provisional determination that “.INTERNAL” should be reserved for private-use and internal network applications. Prior to review and approval of this reservation by the ICANN Board, we are seeking feedb…

Rethinking RESTFulsense

In this session, I'm joined by Christo du Toit to discuss redesigning RESTFulSense.RESTFulSense is a REST API integration library built in C# .NET in the ope...

EPIC dotUltimate Give Away – Dev Leader Weekly 28

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, we celebrate the winner of the dotUltimate license and talk about collaboration killers.

My Impressions of Hare

When Hare was announced back in 2022, I saw the post on Hacker News, went to the website, looked at the documentation, and my reaction was a lukewarm “meh”. Hare was a new entry in what I call the “Modern Cs”: languages that use C as their base inspiration and…

Position Paper on Quantum Key Distribution

Die Publikation ist ein Positionspapier des BSI zum Thema Quantenbasierte Schlüsseleinigung (QKD), das gemeinsam mit europäischen Partnerbehörden aus Frankreich (ANSSI), den Niederlanden (NLNCSA) und Schweden (Schwedische NCSA) geschrieben wurde. Es analysiert…

Three new LINQ methods in .NET 9

Even though we are in the alpha of .NET 9 and .NET 8 was released not more than two months ago, the dotnet team does not sleep and pushes new changes! In this blog post, we are checking what new methods were added to everyones favorite: LINQ.

Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit

Playing Chess is one of the many hobbies I like to do in my spare time, apart from tinkering around with technology. However, I'm not very good at it, and after losing many games, I decided to see if I could do something I'm much better at; hacking the system!

It’s Critter Stack “Release on Friday” Party!

Hey, did you know that JasperFx Software is ready for formal support plans for Marten and Wolverine? Not only are we trying to make the “Critter Stack” tools be viable long term options for your sh…

How to Build a URL Shortener With .NET

A URL shortener is a simple yet powerful tool that converts long URLs into more manageable, shorter versions. Today, I'll guide you through the design, implementation, and considerations for creating your URL shortener in .NET