Development 5.0

Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought

How special is the solar system? The history of astronomy has mostly been a one-way journey from a worldview in which our solar system is orderly (and divine) to a view in which we are not special.

Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library for .NET Core, which is simple and customisable. Inspired by Refit

RestEase is a little type-safe REST API client library for .NET Framework 4.0 and higher and .NET Core (.NET Platform Standard 1.1, PCL profiles 7, 32, 44, 111, 151), which aims to make interacting with remote REST endpoints easy, without adding unnecessary compexity.

jwilder/docker-squash

Squash docker images to make them smaller. docker-squash is a utility to squash multiple docker layers into one in order to create an image with fewer and smaller layers. It retains Dockerfile commands such as PORT, ENV, etc.. so that squashed images work the same as they were originally built.

Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — In the global race to build artificial intelligence, it was a missed opportunity. Jeff Hawkins, a Silicon Valley veteran who spent the last decade exploring the mysteries of the human brain, arranged a meeting with DeepMind, the world’s leading A.I. lab.

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Kirby is a file‑based CMS

Easy to setup. Easy to use. Flexible as hell. Installing Kirby means uploading some files to your server and that’s it. No fighting with your database setup, no 10-step setup wizard – it’s a matter of seconds. Read more →

‘I Could Ruin Your Business Right Now’: Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom

Jared Goetz was at dinner when someone used his American Express card to buy a $39,000 web domain. Goetz wasn’t too concerned, he told Motherboard in a phone call: He told the American Express fraud department the transaction wasn’t his, but things rapidly got much worse.

What’s a CPU to do when it has nothing to do?

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Facebook: turn off SMS 2FA if you don’t want your number used for ads

What happens to the mobile numbers Facebook users add to their accounts to enable SMS two-factor authentication (2FA)?

Writing integration tests for ASP.NET Core app with xUnit, RestEase and TestHost

In my last post, I wrote about great HTTP client for .NET Core called RestEase and I showed how to use it as a simple proxy between API Gateway and microservice. Today I’ll present how this library can also simplify writing part of integration tests.