A guide to securing Azure DevOps VM deployments by dynamically managing NSG rules with PowerShell to restrict inbound access.
Explores the concepts of 'bikeshedding' and 'honeypots' in software, introducing the idea of a 'bikeshed honeypot' to manage feedback.
Reveals three lesser-known technical facts about the Yarn package manager, including its dependency on npm and built-in spellcheck.
A guide to implementing Open Graph and X card metadata to make blog content appear richer when shared on social media platforms.
A guide on using Docker Machine to create a host within an existing Azure Virtual Network and subnet, using a private IP.
Discusses the importance of cryptographic safety factors, using SHA1's vulnerabilities and Feynman's Challenger report as analogies.
Announcing the redesigned Inqlude website with improved library categorization, navigation, and metadata for Qt libraries.
Explores the early design decisions of dotCloud, the PaaS company whose container engine evolved into Docker, and their lasting impact.
Applying the Page Object Pattern to JavaScript component testing for frameworks like Angular and React to create cleaner, more maintainable tests.
Introduces Sprache, a C# library for creating text parsers using parser combinators, with an example parsing HTTP WWW-Authenticate headers.
A developer introduces 'cozy', a long-term project to build a new C compiler toolchain with a focus on simplicity, portability, and a human-friendly machine specification format.
A technical guide on inviting external Microsoft Account users to a VSTS tenant secured by Azure Active Directory, covering admin and user steps.
A guide to configuring TLS settings, including re-enabling 3DES cipher suites, in the Python Requests library for compatibility with older servers.
A software developer suggests humility as a personal strategy to combat feelings of Imposter Syndrome in the tech industry.
Explains race conditions in Go concurrency and demonstrates how to use mutex locks to ensure thread-safe operations on shared variables.
A technical guide on implementing automated validation checks for Django database migrations to achieve zero-downtime deployments.
Announcing FakeItEasy 3.0.0, a .NET mocking framework update with .NET Core support, new syntax, and improved features.
SwiftGen 4.2 released with major internal refactoring, plus updates on other open-source projects like Reusable and fastlane.
A physics puzzle about light reflection in scintillating crystals, calculating light transmission and reflection with geometric series.
Part 3 of a series on setting up a CI/CD pipeline with Azure Stack, covering automated Windows updates and TFS deployment.
