.NET 9 stable version has been released. In this episode, we’ll talk about what’s coming with .NET 9 and ABP 9. Q&A session and raffle are also here. We might have other surprises, stay tuned!
How to fix jaggies the analytical way with some juicy secrets
Chinese-flagged cargo ship Yi Peng 3 crossed both submarine cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke. She was shadowed by Danish navy for a while during night and is now in Danish Straits leaving Baltics. No signs of boarding. AIS-caveats ap…
This image, the template for the "Panzer of the Lake" meme, depicts a soldier from an unknown nation looking at what appears to me to definitely be a Panzer. However, no-one seems to know the orig...
Introducing a new command line tool dotnet scaffold, a new interactive way to create projects in .NET.
Burnout is something we don't talk about enough in software engineering. One of the scariest parts about burnout: It can sneak up on you. You don't realize it until it's too late. Typically, when I talk about burnout, it's mostly about identifying and preve…
As the name suggests, has a slew of features under the hood to work with .NET MAUI. To effectively support the stable release of .NET MAUI 9, both the CLI NuGet package and the Visual Studio extens…
Tip: In complex software modernization projects treat estimates as guidelines, not deadlines.
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Vital personal and business information flows over the Internet more frequently than ever, and we don’t always know when it’s happening. It’s clear at this point that encrypting is something all of us should be doing. Then why don’t we use TL…
Also: a whole heap of game discovery & platform news, & some bonus radical politics.
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
ATTENTION! This post contains high amounts of both psychic damage and catharsis. Everything you learn will be done so against your will. Reader discretion is advised.
One of the most frustrating aspects in the ongoing conversation around the preservation of older video games, also known as cultural output, is the collision of IP rights and some publishers’…
What would the world around you look like if you were staring at a black hole? This application places a black hole in the field of view of your iPhone’s camera and gravitationally "lenses" the resulting live video feeds just as a black hole would warp the …
They say that once you know who you are, life feels lighter, like a cold breeze comforting your senses.
Ever since a certain someone bought Twitter, I’ve been quite invested into using the Fediverse as my main social web efforts. My Mastodon timeline does a good job for short-form text updates. And Pixelfed is a great nascent Instagram-replacement. One thing I p…
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I've come to the conclusion that I don't like GitHub. No, not the website or the company, but the idea itself. "Social coding", the thing that has been its tagline. And no, not even the social part, but everything that we've come to accept as part of the "soc…
tl;dr - hyper in curl is nearly complete, but it needs a champion. Without a partner actively engaged that wants to enable and ship, it’s now on the path for...
I was just at a Tyler Cowen lecture in NYC — one of my heroes and biggest intellectual influences — and watching everyone file out after the talk, I kept thinking about this really great comment someone had made on the event announcement: “Do these 92Y talks t…
My first book has been on sale at the Amazon kindle store for over a year, and although nobody bought a single copy it just got its first review, and it was 1-star!
I wish that more products had an option to reset to factory settings. Whether I'm using a product I haven’t used in a long time or just finding a new way to set things up, there are plenty of reasons to go back to square one. In a world
Essential interview questions for software testers and IT professionals to ask employers. Includes questions about career growth, work culture, and testing processes. Updated for 2024.
A Chess-AI is something every programmer should build at least once and [Sebastian Lague’s](https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague) [competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScy18pVR58) was the perfect opportunity for me to do so. Constrained to 1024 tok…
My post two weeks ago on How a BBC navigation bar component broke depending on which external monitor it was on has had a lot of discussion and feedback, including today on Hacker News. After reading the comments, I wanted to clarify some things.
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Normally when developers/SWEs/SRE/IT are oncall for a project, the oncall is from Monday of one week to Monday of the following week. This is sub-optimal. Instead it should be Tuesday to Tuesday. This is a 0 cost improvement to everyone’s quality of life and i…