For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voy…
Editor’s note:This letter is the work of a number of anonymous contributors. I have collected, and hosted, this letter in the hope of giving the growing majority of concerned users a venue to better communicate their concerns to the foundation board. Whether o…
Many of my friends and family keep chickens so I’ve seen lots of chicken coops and runs throughout Southern California. Every set up I’ve seen with a floor of wood chips is better than those I’ve seen without, with very few exceptions. Consider keeping your ch…
Connecting my standing desk to the internet was a process. In this process I document I2C sniffing, and the whole process of building the new controller.
Posted on 21 April 2024.
Even if it & all downstream testing were free, I would say no. It is a bad idea.
Uno Platform 5.2. Experience the only true .NET ecosystem single-project approach for all 8 platforms including mobile and desktop. New updates like enhanced Skia renderers, multi-window support, Skia TextBx, Uno.sdk and more
It's time for another keyboard review. I've been using Glove80 for several weeks, so let's examine its pros and cons.
How do we manage the libraries of us?
Recently, I released a macOS app called SoundSeer to the App Store. It’s a Spotify companion that shows your current song in the menu bar. It also has a couple other conveniences like Next Track, and Copy Spotify URL. I’d like to briefly share how this came ab…
We could estimate Bob’s lunch tomorrow by counting the previous lunches you’ve seen him eating in the cafeteria:
A guide on how to generate color palettes for design systems
The Turkish alphabet has been a version of the Latin alphabet for almost a hundred years thanks to the Turkish alphabet reform. There are two main differences between the Turkish and English alphabets.
Id30 is an encoding scheme for identifiers I have designed for use in URLs, and implemented in Rust. It is also a good fit for single-use keys meant to be copied to another device, such as login codes sent via SMS or displayed on a TV screen. Id30 looks like t…
If you are like me, maybe you understand that binaries can have statically or dynamically linked dependencies (shared libs) with each strategy...
It's easy and they love it.
One good piece of advice is never to read e-mails if you want to have a pleasant and relaxing weekend. Unfortunately, it is not so easy: open-source projects you are contributing to, friends, hobbies, and newsletters are all good reasons to read e-mails once i…
Ideas every programmer likes and why Garbage Collection and Object Oriented Programming are bad
Roaring Bitmaps offer an even more efficient way to store and query an entire social graph, fitting the entire network of 5.5M users and 164M+ follows into a ~1.6GB SQLite DB on disk.
Today we’re taking the next step toward our vision for a more open computing platform for the metaverse. We’re opening up the operating system powering our Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, giving more choice to consumers and a larger ecosyste…
A Stack is a linear data structure that follows the Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) principle. This means that the last item added to the stack…
Easily generate markdown to embed YouTube videos in Github README. Our site has an easy online tool, simply input a Youtube URL.
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Embark on an interactive story among the stars
What if the UI thread isn't there to save you?
The post discusses alternative approaches to adding items to a collection using For() or ForEach() from the Task Parallel Library.
Wolverine just got a new PostgreSQL-backed messaging transport (with the work sponsored by a JasperFx Software client!). The use case is just this, say you’re already using Wolverine to build…
See how to implement single sign-on with GitHub and OAuth in Next.js for straightforward and secure authentication management.
Explore the frontiers of Microsoft 365 as Bob German unveils the power of extending Copilot using JavaScript and TypeScript at Azure Developers JavaScript Day..
In the first part of this two-part series, I covered the mostly non-technical aspects of building a data culture. While the lion's share of the work will
April is a great month if you are a developer. This month you can attend both VS Code Day 2024 AND Azure Developers .NET Day 2024 . VS Co...
Want to add API key authentication middleware into your ASP.NET Core application? Check out this article for a simple code example that shows you how!
Replit is a simple, powerful way to spin up code instances in the cloud. This makes experimenting with small, shareable scripts super easy and I use it all the time to demonstrate small programs here in the Lab.
In the fast-evolving world of software development, keeping pace with technology trends is both a necessity and a challenge. Companies and developers often find themselves making critical decisions about whether to adopt new technologies early (bleeding edge),…
7 simple steps to tackle any feedback situation
April 21, 2024
The classic DOOM game over htop, the text-based process viewer - 0x0mer/doom-htop