Rob Janssen

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OAuth Has Ruined Everything

OAuth Sucks. I’m probably not telling you something that you don’t already know. If you’ve ever had to setup authentication to one (or heaven forbid) multiple authentication providers (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

A new stackalloc operator for reference types with CoreCLR and Roslyn

Source code is now available on github Udpdated 9 Oct 2015: Added a section about the this and transient safe problem In the sequel of my previous post adding struct inheritance to C# with CoreCLR and Roslyn, I would like to share here a proposal and a prototype for a new stackalloc operator to

<input> I ? you, but you're bringing me down

Some people build furniture. Some people knit. Some people have hobbies that don't involve HTML specs from the 90s. I am not those people. So here's a story about <input>, how it got to be the jerk that it is, and why it needs to die in a fire. 1995 was a good year.

seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/20151022_time_and_computers_softshake.pdf

Unit Testing MVC6 and EntityFramework 7 with xUnit

Unit testing along with Test Driven Development (TDD) have become increasingly common in recent years throughout the software development community, and MVC is no exception to this trend.

TypeScript is pretty good — Medium

TLDR: A column about how TypeScript is pretty good, compared to ES6.

Search For Intelligent Aliens Near Bizarre Dimming Star Has Begun

The search for signs of life in a mysterious star system hypothesized to potentially harbor an "alien megastructure" is now underway.

Scientists can’t explain what huge object is blocking the light from this distant star

It’s not every day that we have permission to throw "Aliens?" out there in relation to a confounding astronomical discovery - in fact, I don’t think we ever have.

How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

There have been rumors for years that the NSA can decrypt a significant fraction of encrypted Internet traffic.

10 Questions Developers Should be Asking Themselves

So you want to become a web developer? Well then it’s time to put down that “Learn Super Duper Language v8.3 in 24 hours” book. Instead, make it a habit to ask yourself these 10 questions every day.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.