Rob Janssen

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#06 "We Put the 'K' in Kwality" — 858D Hot Air Rework Station Safety Mods

TOOL TALK #1 — Not so retro, but relevant. A look at a few safety mods to the popular 858D hot air rework station, especially for the North American plug variant. I don't want to die from electrocution; I want to fix Commodore stuff, so safety first!? Flickr Album (My 858D Safety Mods): https://

Safety Checkout of a 858D Hot Air Rework Station

I bought a cheap hot air rework station off eBay. It's a typical "858D" unit made popular by Atten, WEP, YOUYUE, ZENY, and a dozen other brands. However, the one I got is completely unbranded and I didn't trust its construction. Good thing I tore it apart!This is the unit I purchased: http://www.eba

Announcing Rate Limiting for .NET

We’re excited to announce built-in Rate Limiting support as part of .NET 7. Rate limiting provides a way to protect a resource in order to avoid overwhelming your app and keep traffic at a safe level. Rate limiting is the concept of limiting how much a resource can be accessed.

Custom formatters in ASP.NET Core Web API

By Kirk Larkin and Tom Dykstra. ASP.NET Core MVC supports data exchange in Web APIs using input and output formatters. Input formatters are used by Model Binding. Output formatters are used to format responses.

NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S.

Rolling your own crypto: Everything you need to build AES from scratch (and then never use it for anything of consequence)

Rolling your own crypto: Everything you need to build AES from scratch (and then never use it for anything of consequence) You often hear the phrase "Don't roll your own crypto". I think this sentence is missing an important qualifier: "...and then use it for anything of consequence".

.NET 6 Minimal API Full Build

In this step by step video we perform a full step by step build of a .NET 6 minimal API. We also contrast and compare it with a MVC API to further understand the differences and similarities between them. Level: Beginner ?? Links ?? ?? GitHub Repository: https://github.com/binarythistle/S05

New UUID Formats

Workgroup: dispatch Internet-Draft: draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format-03 Updates: 4122 (if approved) Published: 31 March 2022 Intended Status: Standards Track Expires: 2 October 2022 Authors: BGP. Peabody K.

Generating sortable Guids using NewId

In this post I discuss the pros-and-cons of using database-generated integer vs client-generated Guids, and introduce NewId as a way of mitigating some of the downsides of Guids.

Story about graceful termination with modern .NET

Abstract Pods represent processes running on nodes in the cluster, each pod could be terminated anytime, for instance during a new version rollout or the possibility of evicting pods from one node into another node in the cluster, so it’s good practice for your app to be able to gracefully termina

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