Yannick

My main tools to debug DNS (I don't use dig it is such an unfriendly tool) https://dns-lookup.jvns.ca [github] is a simple web-based DNS lookup tool. curl has a resolve flag allowing you to bypass DNS lookup and verify that the HTTP server sends a valid response. # HTTPS

Sadly the default ENTRYPOINT does not handle variables or arguments, so we to use a workaround and store it in an Environment Variable, which is consumed in a bash command. ARG DLL_NAME ENV DLL_NAME=$DLL_NAME ENTRYPOINT [ "/bin/bash", "-c", "exec dotnet ${DLL_NAME}" ] An alternative way would

Upgrading .NET versions on macOS can be a hassle, last time I wanted to update I had to find and remove all installed versions with dotnet-core-uninstall. Instead of using the official installer I recommend to use homebrew with homebrew-dotnet-sdk-versions. brew tap isen-ng/dotnet-sdk-versions brew install --cask dotnet-sdk6-0-400 dotnet --list-sdks If

Talks * Demo of Spotify Backstage [youtube] * Creating advanced Diagrams with Structurizr [youtube] * Big Integer, Basecamp's biggest outage [link] Tools * Chrome Extension Stream Recorder which can record any video [link] Articles * stop recommending Clean Code [link] Other * Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors [link] * Compare simple snippets

Golang * Using pointers to reduce copies is premature optimization [link] Articles * Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software [link] [discussion] Tools * sketch.systems [link] [tutorial] Other * Advanced Youtube search [link] * CLI pomodoro timer [github] Talks * Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality [youtube] * Fighting Software Entropy • Alison Rosewarne

* The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino [link] Python * Writing Python like it's Rust [link] JavaScript * npm package "config" which loads configurations from JSON files, this is similar to how .NET applications load configuration [link] Security & Auth * Granular Authorization in

* Douglas Crockford shares the story of discovering JSON and learning to love Javascript. [link] * Programmer Interrupted by ninlabs research [link] * Wes McKinney about how he started Panas and worked on Apache Arrow [link] * Avoid low prio tasks fester and explode [link] Python * FawltyDeps is a dependency checker for Python that

Notes * Some GPL violations were found in the wild, make sure you check the licenses of third party packages (best to automate the check). * Docker the tool has been a massive benefit to software development unfortunately Docker the company appears to be dying. podman is probably the goto container on

A collection of everything interesting on the web around technology. Gamedev * Godot 4 was released [link] Go/Golang * PocketBase is an open source Go backend that allows you to quickly setup database, authentication and API. [github] Python * Office365-REST-Python-Client is a Library to work with Microsoft 365, upload files to Sharepoint

To verify network configurations of a Kubernetes deployment, we use a  simple debug Pod. apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: debug-debian labels: app: debug-debian spec: enableServiceLinks: false containers: - name: debug-debian image: debian:10 command: - /bin/bash - -ec - | apt update -qq apt install -qq -y wget curl

fly.io is a platform that allows you to quickly deploy application code into the cloud. To deploy you need a free fly.io account and the flyctl command line tool. There used to be similar a free hosting service called Heroku, that got bought by Salesforce. Pricing The free

In todays attention economy the browser tries to sell you links and news (because there are ads next to the news). When we open a new window nothing should interrupt our thoughts. Windows Microsoft Edge Open Settings > New tab page > click Customize. A new page opens. Click on the Cogs