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Technology Articles, Discussions and Updates in February 2023

Yannick

Mar 2, 2023

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 or access Office 365 Emails. [github]
Comparing Dataclass with attrs and pydantic [youtube] (attrs has validation)

Security

Attacker gained access SMS Phishing to Activision [twitter]

Honorable Mentions

yt-dlp which allows you to download and backup your youtube videos [github]

Other

Uberduck allows to create spken text with custom voice, very fun [link]
How Squarespace RFC approval process works [link]
Earl Nightingale - The SECRET Is Your ATTITUDE [youtube]
Calculate how much streaming would cost on AWS [link]

How to sign a macOS app without Xcode

Thanks to the apple-platform-rs project you can sign your app without Xcode.

Debugging DNS

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

How to pass an argument to Dockerfile entrypoint

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_

How to install .NET on macOS

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