24 October 2024

31 links · Thursday

What's Coming with .NET 9?

An in-depth overview of .NET 9's new features and updates! Learn whether upgrading now or waiting for .NET 10 is the right choice for your applications.

2048 by Gabriele Cirulli

Join the tiles and reach 2048! Play the free online game loved by millions.

Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches. Explore this powerful, user-friendly feature for precise content sharing and improved web experiences.

.NET MAUI Welcomes Syncfusion Open-source Contributions

Syncfusion recently announced their commitment to .NET MAUI and released the Syncfusion Toolkit for .NET MAUI—a collection of free, open-source controls designed to enhance your .NET MAUI applications. Check out the details and start using these controls today…

Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design

Next week I will visit SPLASH to present a paper titles “A case for feminism in programming language design”, co-authored with Ari Schlesinger. A preprint of the paper can be found at t…

What's Coming with .NET 9!

Exciting times are ahead because today, we're diving into what's coming with .NET 9! So, if you're wondering whether it's worth upgrading your applications to .NET 9 or waiting for the next long-term support release, .NET 10, next year—you're in the right pla…

C# and Linux - Building a better Wordpress - Episode 5

Powered by Restream https://restream.io Fritz is talking through and starting a new CMS project that anyone can contribute to! https://github.com/FritzAndFriends/SharpSite It's time for the annual Ubuntober celebration! C#, Blazor, and Ubuntu Linux devel…

On .NET Live: CountryData.Net - Country Data Made Easy!

Does your app need easy access to country data, like phone codes, flags, regions, and more? In this week's episode, community member Isaiah Clifford Opoku shows us how CountryData.Net simplifies country data integration in .NET without relying on third-party s…

Life in Transition

Smoke fills the screen and drifts toward the sky. We see black earth that is steaming and could be cooling lava. Then we notice small holes punched into the dark topography where smoke is being rel…

GPGPU Compute Concepts

A comprehensive overview of general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) computing, how modern GPU hardware execute compute shaders, and best practices for applications and games.

Building Images: Gzip vs Zstd

Docker images are downloaded as compressed layers and default to gzip compression. But is there a better option? We compare gzip and zstd compression methods to see which is best for building and pushing images.

Expanding Your Knowledge With a "Stuff I Didn't Know I Don't Know" List

Recently I saw a reddit post of a software engineer "feeling dumb" because of all the things he saw that he did not know. On this post I replied with a suggestion of keeping a "Stuff I Didn't Know I Don't Know" list, elaborating briefly on how I use mine.

Revi.so

A modern writing tool designed for putting together well written work, and collaborating with a team to get it shipped

Self-documenting Code

Think back to the last time you looked at an unfamiliar block of code. Did you immediately understand what it was doing? If not, you’re not alone – many software developers, including myself, find it challenging to grasp unfamiliar code quickly…

PabloNet

Matthieu Le Cauchois's website

One in ten 💡 Amin Eftegarie

A long time ago, a young Japanese man decided to start his own bar. His bar did well, even though he noticed that only a tenth of the people liked his bar enough to come back. The other nine never returned. But that’s all he needed to sustain his business—one …