Starting August 15th 2024, the AWS SDK for .NET will end support for .NET Framework 3.5 and will change the minimum .NET Framework version to 4.6.2. Motivation .NET Framework 3.5 was released in 2007 when AWS was in its early stages with just a handful of serv…
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February 2024 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework
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Quickly understand inscrutable LLM frameworks by intercepting API calls.
How DDD is screwing up your SQL
I accidentally 'doxxed' a stranger on a plane today.
I switched to Surf because of habit switch from distracted kitchen sinks to focused app-like web browsing.
As you work on growing your career you will hopefully have many people helping you reach that next level, maybe a supportive manager or a mentor. But none of these people care about your career as much as you do. Nor should they.
Dear Internet, I’ve never written to you on this special day before, so I thought I’d give you a surprise this time! After all, we’ve been through a lot together, since our first encounter over a dial-up connection in the early two thousands. I was late to the…
How The Cloud Made It So Easy To Build Payment Applications That Are Beyond Our Control
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
The product you build is important, but only if you’re able to catch a good wave.
psql, the database client for PostgreSQL has, since forever, support for variables.
Creative Output Blog - Revealing the mysterious process of being extraordinarily creative.
Sef's favorite, the Accidental Tech Podcast.
How to practice programming effectively.
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I’ve been wanting to make my own Linux distro for some time now and, well, I hadn’t developed the proper skills needed to follow through on such an abundant task. The process of building a Linux Distribution can be pretty tough and making a quality and usable …
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I've used quite a few CMS options over the years. Here I am talking in the context of managing content in a web / mobile app rather than the traditional blog...
I wanted to talk about some things I've done over my career to improve my personal security, which in cases like this also improves Sentry's corporate security. I won't claim to be an expert in this field, and I'm sure there's some great advice that I will omi…
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The Reactive Extensions for .NET are one of the most well established and widely used open source .NET projects. Learn how this project is evolving to take a...
Discover everything that’s included for .NET devs to build apps for Microsoft Teams in the latest version of Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio.
.NET 8 introduces metrics to ASP.NET Core. Check out what is new and discover how easy it is to use metrics and ASP.NET Core to monitor the health and activity of apps.
When working on Airbnb’s infra team, I struggled to grow from an L4 engineer to a senior/L5 eng. I came early, stayed late, and said yes to working on anything that needed help - I was as eager as a new grad could be.
Google has just removed #Conversations_im from the Play Store because they think we are uploading the user’s contact list. We don’t.
An over-estimate is better than an under-estimate.
How would you design an HTTP API that needs to generate a transcript for a specific video (by id)? Deeper into that question, you can assume that won't be a...
SQL for managers is an underrated skill
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday banned a general weakeningof secure end-to-end encryption. The judgement argues that encryptionhelps citizens and companies to protect themselves against hacking,theft of identity and personal data, fraud and the un…
You've heard of https://levels.fyi, right? You heard the story where they built their website without a database but instead had it backed by spreadsheets? T...
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Are you struggling with memory leaks due to your event handlers and events in C#? Check out how weak events in C# can help with garbage collection in your apps!
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The author delves into the performance disparities of using reference types, value types, and record types in collections.
In this video we will discussed the new features in .NET 9 and what to expect!Support me on Patreon to access the source code:https://www.patreon.com/mohamad...
Join us as we explore how to connect a Blazor app to Microsoft Entra using OIDC and the BFF pattern.Links: https://www.theurlist.com/blazor-standup-2024-02Fe...
In this article, we will discuss how to log class and method names using Serilog in an ASP.NET Core application
Combining the power of System.Text.Json and extensions built into System.Net.Http.Json for HttpClient you can easily serialize and deserialize data with just...
Discover Visual Studio 2022 17.9, the current version with AI Git messages, C++/ .NET upgrades. Download the latest tools for innovation.
Learn some of the more advanced data structures for ASP.NET Core apps: trees, heaps and hashing.
In a triumphant return we start taking a look at all the cool new stuff in .NET that I’ve been missing while writing a bunch of Ruby code. Today we look at a feature of Entity Framework I’ve been miss
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Experiences of using ChatGPT on a range of technical writing
Entity Framework Core 8 complex types to increase performance and reduce the number of tables
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After my first LINQ MindMap: Here is an updated version that includes everything up until .NET 9.
NuGet 6.9 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 8.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.9 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. In NuGet 6.9, we introduce some exciting new features and bug fixes,
Hey, did you know that JasperFx Software is ready for formal support plans for Marten and Wolverine? Not only are we making the “Critter Stack” tools be viable long term options for your shop, we’r…
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
February 2024 release (version 1.6.0) of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) is now available. Tou can learn about how to get started with the Azure Developer CLI by visiting our documentation.
Translation of the buisness goals to the actual parameters of the statistical procedure is a non-trivial task. The degree of non-triviality increases if we should adjust several parameters at the same time. In this post, we consider a problem of simultaneou...
A step by step guide on how to create community plugins for PowerToys Run
A recent conversation with a friend in the robotics industry naturally led to a discussion of how the industry as a whole can build more generalizable
Open source software is to be trusted. Or at least that's what we have been told. And up to some years ago, this has been the truth, as any programmer could just check the code and decide if it might steal data or not.
<p>“Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” – Edward Tufte, Yale Professor Emeritus What’s the plumbing company of your choice? Garrett’s? Whatever it is, chances are, it’s part of a chain, but not a huge one. It’s probably a small to medium-siz…
Today, Nvidia became the fourth largest company in the world, surpassing both Google and Amazon. What’s driving this hype? Why do the public markets - and the masses in general - look at artificial intelligence in a way they never have before? I had a shower t…
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The system I describe in this post is for small blogs with an index page that lists all posts. It’s essentially a filter on this list of posts, but to the user it seems like he navigates separate pages with a list of posts for each tag, that is, these “virtual…
DuckDB version 0.10.0 has been released, bringing some new array functions. You can use them to turn DuckDB into a vector database. (Make sure you have at least version 0.10.0 of DuckDB version to …
Inverting the job searching process
The USN’s supercarriers are extremely capable, but also very expensive, and even the USN can only afford a few. As a result, every few years, the suggestion of building smaller, cheaper carriers comes up. In recent years, these have gotten louder, driven in …
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Hello everyone! 👋 I've been thinking about starting a blog for some time. Working on PyO3 creates ideas that I think many people would find interesting to read about. Finally I have found the time to get started and to choose a platform to publish on. I reall…
I think the good path for a software engineer to become a solopreneur is to be a product engineer. Back when I was starting, there is no clear definition of a product engineer. But if you're one of the first engineering hires of a startup (founding engineers…
I’d like to demonstrate how to install and configure your networking equipment at home using a Raspberry Pi device and open-source software.
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into…
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Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.
About two months ago I stumbled across a great YouTube video of a talk by Charity Majors called Compliance standards should be modern development practices. Now let’s step back for a minute. Am I seriously suggesting that anything with the word “compliance” is…
If you're a software developer, at some point in your career, you probably had an idea for an app or a SaaS that you wanted to build...
An introduction to the Passes protocol I authored.
Weechat 4.2.0 has introduced a new feature that lets you tag messages from ignored users, allowing you to dynamically enable and disable ignores.
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast disco…