Eliminate Spam Calls With This iPhone Trick - CNET
CNETby Zachary McAuliffe5 Aug 2025
Spam calls are annoying. I always have my phone ringer on in case there is an emergency but that means my iPhone receives a handful of spam calls a week.
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top 17%Disabling thread safety check in Entity Framework
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel4 Aug 2025
In this blog post we will have a look into how to disable the thread safety check in Entity Framework. What are the implications of doing so and how to do it.
I upgraded all of my home networking equipment
Bruno Rochaby Bruno Rocha1 Aug 2025
I upgraded all of my home networking equipment Note: An updated version of this post is out! Check out "Everything about my smart home and homelab setup" instead.
Setting up Compose Multiplatform previews
zsmb.coby Márton Braun29 Jul 2025
Setting up Compose Multiplatform previews 2025-07-29 • Márton Braun Last updated on 2026-01-16, to add the reference to the new official documentation.
Using Architecture Tests for CancellationTokens and sealed classes
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel28 Jul 2025
Architectural Unit tests are nice to constraint your system (like which parts of your application can access other parts of your application).
Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson27 Jul 2025
Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed Everyone is always wondering how to make Postgres faster, more efficient, etc, but nobody ever thinks about how to make Postgres slower.
The 32 Best Ballet Flats For A Sweet-but-Easy Summer Look
Refinery29by written by Esther Newman25 Jul 2025
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Deciding between ‘let’ and ‘var’ for Swift struct properties | Swift by Sundell
Swift by Sundell23 Jul 2025
Deciding between ‘let’ and ‘var’ for Swift struct properties When declaring a Swift property, we use either the let or var keyword depending on whether we want our new property to be read-only once...
Why Lists are not lowered to a while loop
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel21 Jul 2025
Some while ago I was explaining what "Lowering" is. And the interesting part is that List behaves differently like an array while also a List is backed by an array. But why?
Open mailto links with emacsclient - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown18 Jul 2025
In a previous article I mentioned the ability to handle mailto: URI (described in RFC 6068) from Emacs. In this article I'll detail how I configured and connected the bits to make it work.
The Admin you forgot about
Abduls Blog13 Jul 2025
We all know the classic RID 500 administrator account, the one who’s able to use NTLM authentication even with “Protected user” membership and is your go to during delegation attacks but there’s a...
ToListAsync is fast again in Entity Framework (kind of)
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel7 Jul 2025
Last year I wrote an article about how ToListAsync was slow in Entity Framework titled: "Be careful with ToListAsync and ToArrayAsync in Entity Framework Core".
Quirks about Emacs as a systemd service - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown6 Jul 2025
I've recently investigated again how to run Emacs as a systemd service. The goal is to start using the emacsclient more consistently, it's a faster way to work with Emacs.
Don't use Type-safe Project Accessors with Kotlin Gradle DSL
Zac Sweersby Zac Sweers2 Jul 2025
Gradle 7.0 introduced the type-safe project accessors feature for IDE support of referencing projects in dependencies.
Reducing email spam with a domain and catch-all aliases
Bruno Rochaby Bruno Rocha29 Jun 2025
Reducing email spam with a domain and catch-all aliases I've recently moved away from a regular Gmail account in favor of receiving email on my very own rockbruno.com domain.
You can't use switch expressions in Blazor (sometimes)
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel23 Jun 2025
Did you ever try to have a switch expression in Blazor? Yes, and did it go well? Sometimes not. Let's see why!
Suppressions of Suppressions — overreacted
overreacted11 Jun 2025
Suppressions of Suppressions June 11, 2025 Usually, when we think about build failures, we think about things like syntax errors. Or maybe “module not found” errors.
How to setup a Swift Package Registry in Artifactory
Alberto De Bortoliby Alberto De Bortoli6 Jun 2025
Introduction It's very difficult to have GenAI not hallucinate when in comes to Swift Package Registry.
Progressive JSON — overreacted
overreacted31 May 2025
Progressive JSON May 31, 2025 Do you know about Progressive JPEGs? Here’s a nice explanation of what a Progressive JPEG is.
Tips and tricks for when using SwiftUI’s ViewBuilder | Swift by Sundell
Swift by Sundell30 May 2025
Tips and tricks for when using SwiftUI’s ViewBuilder SwiftUI’s ViewBuilder type is a key part of the library’s overall API design, in that it’s what enables multiple view expressions to be declared...