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Technology Articles, Discussions and Updates in March 2023

Yannick

Apr 2, 2023

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 the desktop in the future. [link]

Security

AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover [link]

JavaScript

A Deep Dive Into the Node js Event Loop - Tyler Hawkins [youtube]
Parsing Emojis in Javascript [link]

Articles

fly.io shares insight into their reliability problems [link]
How Facatrio was ported to Nintendo switch with its deterministic architecture and 2,417 tests [link]
How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency [link]
Doordash switching from Redis to CockroachDB [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