Minimal hosting making its way to ASP.NET Core with .NET 6.

April 21, 2021 No comments Article

Feather HTTP like minimal hosting is making its way to the aspnetcore framework with .NET 6. It will be more like express.js way. Check out the following example. This won’t be a breaking change, but this will be another style of doing so. 😀using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http; var app = WebApplication.Create(args); app.MapGet(“/”, async

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.NET Core ASP – PDF Generation for hosting on Azure?

April 14, 2021 No comments Article

Dear all,I’ve been away from pdf generation / boring crud apps for a while, but I have an active project right now where people require me to generate PDFs for them. A few years ago (ASP.NET MVC5) this was a very enterprisey thing to do, because the (commercial) libraries were very expensive, and had per-cpu

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My simple Github project went Viral – Thank you Reddit!

April 14, 2021 No comments Article

Last month, I made a simple project which got spread in various tech communities and social media. On Github, It reached from 0 to 4k+ stars and 200+ forks within 7 days. Github featured it in Trending repositories of day section for straight 5 days or so.Some of you might remember 🙂 this was the

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My journey to $1M RRSP started 25 years ago

April 7, 2021 No comments Article

I see lots of people on here just starting out with their retirement savings. I thought it might be interesting to see a real-life example of one person’s retirement savings journey. I don’t consider myself typical, because I do make quite a bit compared to the Canadian average, but I want to show what can

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Tech salaries are increasing

April 1, 2021 No comments Article

I’m currently interviewing for Sr engineering positions and it seems like salaries have increased by 10-25%. Anyone else noticing this?I actually low balled myself in an interview. They said ‘yeah we can do that and more’. Whatever salary you wanted, add 20k to that number. via /r/PersonalFinanceCanada https://ift.tt/39zMMEW

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I made a Spotify playlist of 20th century poets reading their writings. There’s 29+ hours of poems and texts read by those who wrote them, and includes recordings by James Baldwin, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and many more! What are your thoughts?

April 1, 2021 No comments Article

Around the 1950s, the label Soundmark Records put out quite a few records of authors and poets reading their work, including James Baldwin, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes and more. The recordings include a mix of excerpts of novels and poetry.Last year

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We are cybersecurity researchers who wrote a book teaching people how to hack the Internet of Things, called Practical IoT Hacking. Ask us anything!

March 27, 2021 No comments Article

Hello, Reddit! We are cybersecurity researchers who wrote a book called Practical IoT Hacking that teaches readers how to hack Internet of Things devices safely and lawfully, with practical hands on examples and proven methodologies. You can buy physical and Kindle copies through Amazon or get the physical copy and DRM-free digital copy through the

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How My Household Easily Saved $400/month in Expenses

March 26, 2021 No comments Article

When COVID hit, my wife and I decided to seriously look at our finances to ensure that we were as stable as possible heading into the pandemic. Here are 4 ways that we were able to significantly cut down on our monthly expenses, ultimately saving thousands of dollars per year:1) Cut cable and switched internet

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The Wishlist, or how I got my SO to manage money.

March 22, 2021 No comments Article

So, I’ve been struggling for years to get my SO to understand money. Her problem is pretty common: she has a mental disconnect between the money she has, and the money she can spend. So, either she gets money anxious even if she’s doing ok, or she just buys whatever she feels like, without control.At

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Architecture complexity in the dotnet community & Our duty to beginners

March 20, 2021 No comments Article

I have noticed that dotnet community seems default to a lot of complexity for their software.I see a lot questions often by beginners about clean architecture, domain and persistence layers, repositories + UoW patterns, dtos, mapping code between domain, persistence & dto layers, mapping code & keeping change tracking by introducing diff libaries etc More

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Learn to look at the real cost of what you’re buying.

March 19, 2021 No comments Article

[Edit]: Sit tight while I reformat this. Reddit isn’t being nice this morning.Learn to calculate expenses over at least 5 yearsExamples:$500k Mortgage 5 year fixed rate mortgage with 25 years amortization, accelerated by-weekly payments: – 1.79% = $826.77 – 1.60% = 808.8 You’re thinking, $17.97 difference, that’s trivial. But, that’s over 130 payments which is

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Thank you to u/coast-to-coast88 for saving me $18k

March 17, 2021 No comments Article

Just wanted to give a shout out to u/coast-to-coast88 for posting this a while back.Unbeknownst to me I’d already completed step 1 back in December 2020 by blending and extending my then 3.14% rate down to a 2.76% rate with Scotia. Had 3.5yrs remaining on the 3.14% at the time and cost to break was

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My RRSP transfer from Manulife to Questrade was stolen

March 16, 2021 No comments Article

I am in Canada. I transferred $13000 from a RRSP account from Manulife to Questrade in September of 2020. I wanted an electronic transfer but was told a physical cheque in the mail was the only option. The funds never showed up and finding out what happened has been like pulling teeth. Manulife told me

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How to modify a CLI project to include unit tests?

March 13, 2021 No comments Article

I’m new to the dotnet ecosystem (coming from the JVM) and wanted to share this simple CLI project with you for feedback.https://ift.tt/3rR7kQs is a very simple tool that does AES encryption/decryption given a key and a file path.In order to add unit tests to this project, do I actually require creating a solution, and then

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I’m Dr. Morgan Levy, a psychologist specializing in therapy related to anxiety and perfectionism. Ask me anything!

March 13, 2021 No comments Article

I’m a psychologist currently providing online psychotherapy. I’ve been providing therapy for several years now and specialize in treating people with a history of perfectionism and anxiety. While I can’t provide therapy over reddit, I am happy to answer general questions about symptoms and treatment of anxiety, online therapy, and mental health/psychological issues in general.Outside

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We are the Microsoft Excel product team. We build cool stuff like XLOOKUP, Sheet Views, and lambda in Excel. AMA!

March 11, 2021 No comments Article

We are the Microsoft Excel product team. Come ask us anything, from XLOOKUP to Sheet Views to lambda functions. Our whole team will be online answering your questions starting at 10 AM PT on March 10, 2021. Proof: https://twitter.com/msexcel/status/1361792480723795971/////That’s a wrap for today, folks! Our team will continue to work through your unanswered questions offline.Thank

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