# Pocket Desktop - Third-party Application for GetPocket
Pocket Desktop is a third-party desktop application for GetPocket that allows you to easily access your saved articles and content from your desktop. With Pocket Desktop, you can save articles and con...
Build efficient tests for your Spark data pipeline using BDD with Cucumber
In this Medium article by Omar LARAQUI, youll learn about Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and how it can help you build efficient tests for your Spark data pipeline. Cucumber is the tool that allows...
5 Awesome C# Projects: TODO, Password Manager, Steam, Nintendo Switch And Unity
In this article, Tom Smykowski 💎 highlights 5 awesome projects built with C#: TODO app, password manager, Steam API wrapper, Nintendo Switch gamepad mapper, and a Unity game. C# is a versatile and ea...
Silk.NET - High-speed & advanced .NET graphics & compute
Spruce up your games and applications with cross-platform 3D graphics, audio, compute and haptics. Fast. Free. Cross platform. Silk.NET provides high-speed, direct, and transparent bindings, as well a...
eBPF, Sidecars, and the Future of the Service Mesh
In this article, William Morgan, the CEO of Buoyant and one of the creators of the first service mesh, Linkerd, examines the potential of eBPF technology to replace Linkerds sidecar proxies entirely. ...
How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
The Linux kernel has undergone a revolution with the introduction of two new interfaces - eBPF and io_uring. These interfaces are set to change the way applications work with and think about the kerne...
Improved Reliability and Built-In Module Transpilation in Next.js 13.1
Next.js 13.1 includes a number of improvements to the app/ (beta) directory, including better reliability and performance, and a new TypeScript plugin for page and layout configuration options. The ap...
The Outbox Pattern in Python
Transactional Outbox pattern explained with Python examples. One of the most frequently used ways of communication between microservices/modules is asynchronous communications via events. Implementing...
Handling Errors Like a Pro in TypeScript
Error handling in Type/JavaScript is crucial for the longevity of any project. This article discusses how to handle errors cleanly with TypeScript and introduces a design pattern for grouping code by ...
WebAssembly: Docker without containers!
This article explains what WebAssembly is, why its relevant to the Docker ecosystem, and provides hands-on examples. WebAssembly is an open standard that enables the creation of portable binary execut...
Creating Multi-Tier Subscriptions using C#
Its always best to give options to users when it comes to subscriptions. Today, we introduce a unique way to attach application features to a subscription. This post was written for the Sixth Annual C...
Error-accumulating composable assertions in C#
This article is about composing non-short-circuiting assertions in C# in such a way that failure messages accumulate. It explores a simpler API than the previous articles proof of concept, using a Not...
PriorityQueues on .NET 7 and C# 11
Starting from .NET 6 and C# 10, we finally have built-in support for PriorityQueues 🥳 A PriorityQueue is a collection of items that have a value and a priority; as you can imagine, they act as a queu...
Dangers & Gotchas of Scoped Services in OptionsBuilder
In this blog post, Andrew Lock discusses the dangers and gotchas of using scoped services with the IOptions pattern. He provides a brief overview of strongly-typed configuration in ASP.NET Core and th...
Reaqtor: A stateful, distributed, and scalable event processing framework based on Rx
Reaqtor is a reliable, stateful, distributed, scalable, and high performance event processing framework based on Rx. It adds state and durability primitives to Reactive Extensions to enable long-runni...
AppCode 2022.3 Release and End of Sales and Support
AppCode 2022.3 has been released with new features such as more refactoring capabilities for Swift. However, the JetBrains team has announced that they will be sunsetting AppCode as of December 14, 20...
Has your password been pwned? Or, how I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond
This article discusses how to check if your password has been hacked by searching through a 37GB text file. It provides a step-by-step guide on how to do this in Python and offers some solutions to ma...
Introducing Wolverine for Effective Server Side .NET Development – The Shade Tree Developer
Wolverine is a mediator and message bus tool for server-side .NET development. Its runtime model is different from other similar tools in a way that leads to simpler application code and more efficien...
When do tests fail? - Understanding the triggers and importance of clear assertion messages
Unit tests occasionally fail but understanding their triggers and importance of clear assertion messages can go a long way in avoiding non-deterministic tests. The Assertion Roulette test smell highli...
# TypeProvider.Json - Prototype Remake of FSharp.JsonTypeProvider in CSharp
This is a prototype remake of FSharp.JsonTypeProvider in CSharp, which is used to create JSON data types that can be used to deserialize JSON data at runtime. Usage of this prototype remake is shown i...