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2020-03-18 12:18:01 One of the best terminals for windows just got another nice update: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-v0-10-release/?WT.mc_id=reddit-social-thmaure
no, really, in case you've not tried it yet - just try: it's rendering with the help of DirectX is smooth and fast, works with WSL without any significant concerns! Really seems like another "Visual Studio Code" like project, with interesting new features and Microsoft's recent passion with Linux.
Another alternatives:
https://conemu.github.io/ - ConEmu; nice little thing, but has sudden hang issues. The development is stuck a bit lately.
https://cmder.net/ - Cmder; another emulator built on top of ConEmu with additional bugfixes. Open / Comment

2020-02-14 12:38:15 So, for example:
you are following me, but you are not a developer or beginner one, or the one who starts to learn new tech.
Heh! Good news for you, pal (tho you may already know this repo, it's not "fresh"): there sure is a project, that is good for starting real world web app, made using different frontent/backend technologies.
It has API specs, that are completed using javascript for frontend and various backend languages for backend.

"The mother of all demo apps"
A blog. One of the most simple inventions that never would have existed without the web itself. And it takes full advantage of the web too: querying & persisting data to a database, an authentication system, session management, full CRUD for resources—and now these days social blogging platforms (like the site you’re reading this on) have also perfected relational features like following, liking, and commenting. A blogging site is the perfect example of a simple yet robust web application.

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

Read the full blog post announcing RealWorld on Medium
https://medium.com/@ericsimons/introducing-realworld-6016654d36b5 Open / Comment

2020-01-23 18:02:05 You always wanted to "learn git", huh? I mean that real cryptic git like:
branch --merged | egrep -v "(*|master|dev)" | xargs git branch -d
Ok.. Enough of this; came across nice article (by the way it's updated regularly) about git concepts that you better understand, raw and nice theory, like we all
https://dev.to/unseenwizzard/learn-git-concepts-not-commands-4gjc Open / Comment

2019-10-10 12:01:25 "Know your heroes by names"
The list will probably wonder you with some name origins for open source projects.

The classic anti-vi editor, the true etymology of the name is unremarkable, in that it derives from "Editing MACroS." Being an object of great religious opprobrium and worship it has, however, attracted many spoof bacronyms such as "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift" (to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes), "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" (from when that was a lot of memory), "Eventually malloc()s All Computer Storage," and "EMACS Makes A Computer Slow." —Adapted from the Jargon File/Hacker's Dictionary

https://opensource.com/article/19/10/open-source-name-origins Open / Comment

2019-10-04 12:01:40 The musician and comedian Martin Mull has observed that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. In a similar way, there's an inherent inadequacy in writing about tools for thought. To the extent that such a tool succeeds, it expands your thinking beyond what can be achieved using existing tools, including writing. The more transformative the tool, the larger the gap that is opened. Conversely, the larger the gap, the more difficult the new tool is to evoke in writing. But what writing can do, and the reason we wrote this essay, is act as a bootstrap. It's a way of identifying points of leverage that may help develop new tools for thought. So let's get on with it.

How can we improve the tools that help us transform our thoughts and the way we think and memorize?
Very long longread and I think every normal human should be amazed by his brain and try to always study its patterns and search for the ways to improve the way it works on certain tasks.

https://numinous.productions/ttft/ Open / Comment

2019-09-26 13:54:10 Tatocaster (our Android Dev) has used some closed functionality (application distribution) of Firebase, before it was public, and now he is ready to share his findings with the world, before almost everyone else!

Firebase App Distribution is an alternative to the well-known platform Crashlytics later acquired by Google. Firebase constantly tries to fill the gaps from DevOps to the developer and to the reporting assistant, all the necessary tools are getting to appear on the platform. After the partial migration from Crashlytics to Firebase we missed beta app distribution and all the stuff around it.
I had an opportunity to enroll in the closed alpha program to gain access to the very early stages of the upcoming features and I promise there are tons of features coming out Using Firebase is becoming fun again.

https://medium.com/@tatocaster/firebase-app-distribution-fastlane-docker-bitbucket-pipelines-telegram-and-all-that-jazz-2dcb770da7dd Open / Comment

2019-09-24 13:11:47 Microsoft has ongoing .NET Conf, announcing so much tasty new stuff on where all the .NET family is going. Also they've released a bunch of new free introductary educational videos (1-o-1), check them out, in case you missed something; it's really a good place to check with good coaches (hello there Scott Hanselman!)

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/videos

Also check out the "What's new in dotNet Core 3" - this will be the last "Core" project, it will be renamed to just ".NET" for the next (5(!)) version:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-core-3-0/

Conference website:
https://www.dotnetconf.net/

On-demand videos from conference:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReL099Y5nRd04p81Q7p5TtyjCrj9tz1t

Channel 9:
https://channel9.msdn.com/ Open / Comment

2019-09-18 12:01:05 Everyone likes to read lists of smart advices, don't they? Uuuh, lets add one of these to our channel! Seriously nice small list for anyone stuck a bit or waiting to find some new ways for learning. Just a small little advices like:
Everyone is essentially self-taught in the industry. Tech generally moves too fast for traditional educational institutions to catch up. If you want to boot up something quick, you’re better off doing micro and nano degrees and certifications rather than sitting through three years of exams.
or
For a long time, you’ll feel like you’re not really improving — until you look back at your old code or have to explain something to someone.


https://medium.com/better-programming/25-lessons-based-on-my-experiences-as-a-developer-61644418a3ed Open / Comment

2019-09-05 09:27:22 Sometimes I think that some advanced gipsy just cursed Facebook somewhere during their history...

"TechCrunch verified a number of records in the database by matching a known Facebook user’s phone number against their listed Facebook ID. We also checked other records by matching phone numbers against Facebook’s own password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal a user’s phone number linked to their account."

Public access to mongo is down now, but the database copy still can be found in the "specific internet places".

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/ Open / Comment

2019-08-28 12:01:07 Even now you think that you are not followed? But just have a look at what are various browsers requesting JUST after the installation. Interesting facts are that some of them are sending data to even not their own domains, providing some telemetry to 3rd party companies RIGHT after FIRST start.

Google Chrome: https://threader.app/thread/1165493206441779200
Mozilla https://threader.app/thread/1165858896176660480
Microsoft Edge: https://threader.app/thread/1166138692509065218
Opera и Vivaldi: https://threader.app/thread/1165353213308129281
Dissenter https://threader.app/thread/1165377063932637184
Brave https://threader.app/thread/1165391211999518720 Open / Comment