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Stories by jeb

DNS hosting
Hello Lobsters! My current hosting provider is merging with One.com - the only feature I use them for, is the DNS resolution, which I pay around 2 euros per year for. I don't mind paying more, but I do mind paying the new rate that they are proposing, which will be 5 euros a month for webmail ...
Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (hanselman.com)
How we spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (about.gitlab.com)
Usability improvements in GCC 9 (developers.redhat.com)
From .NET Framework to .NET Core and Linux, the story so far (nblumhardt.com)
Blog post about porting the Seq logging server from the framework to core. I find this interesting because Serilog was already supporting core earlier but Seq was still Windows only, and that it's one of the first programs where they have blogged as they moved over.
1fps Atari 2600 Emulator in Vanilla Minecraft 1.13 (youtube.com)
Server management in 2020
Hello dear Lobsters, I have not setup server deployments outside of building images for Azure VMs for a very long time (since before Docker, basically) and I've made a little web api that needs to be deployable and updatable in a simple manner, and this deployment and testing should preferably be...
doom-console-log: DOOM rendered via console.log() in a web browser (github.com)
UX / HCI books / moocs
Hello fellow Lobsters. I usually work in embedded systems and I have determined that I would like to add knowledge about user interface design / experience, or even broader human computer interaction, as I have often times struggled to make the user interface more clear, concise and consistent. ...
A2-class microSD cards offer no better performance for the Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
Book of the Runtime (github.com)
Microsoft recently put out the book of runtime which is the description of a lot of the internal parts of the clr (common language runtime) which C#, F# and VB.net os built upon. It's a massive battle tested framework, so I think it's interesting to learn about how it's implemented, as I've previ...