Polymer Mallard

08/02/2021

A few weeks ago, I wrote my first extension that will create beautiful ASCII box comments in your code. 📦 Read about it here.

💻 Contribute to the repo.
🐜 File some bugs.
📢 Start a debate.

What does it do?

07/31/2021

🍅 "Tomato is Fruit?" Find out using these special comparison operators! Pattern matching in C # to check nullability (+ more!)

The first thought that probably comes to mind when thinking about NULL checking is a standard comparison like if (foo == null) { ... } but…

07/30/2021

Sending out one last snippet before the weekend rolls in. 😎 This one is for C # 8.0 and it's an awesome magical mind-blowing life-changing (wait, I don't work for Apple...) shorthand way of writing your switch statements.

We’re going to talk about a shorthand version of our traditional switch statement available in C # 8.0. As you’re probably familiar with, a…

07/30/2021

Good morning! 😎 Today's snippet is in / and demonstrates how to easily put a range of characters into an array; like an alphabet. There's also an example inside showing why you might want to do that.

Sometimes you need to work with an array of alphabetical characters but don’t want to spend too much time creating the logic for it…

07/29/2021

💻 I wrote a quick article describing two shorthand snippets for C #. The first is a less verbose syntax for retrieving elements from the end of a list. The second is a similar syntax for substrings.

Today we have two fun snippets for C #. The first is a less verbose syntax for retrieving elements...

02/12/2021

Population danger-zone.

https://zcu.io/U447

A researcher managed to hack systems of over 35 major tech companies including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber in a novel software supply chain attack. For his ethical hacking research efforts, the researcher has been awarded over $130,000 in bug bounties.

12/09/2020

Found this great list of HTTP benchmarking tools https://zcu.io/qo6p

HTTP(S) benchmark tools, testing/debugging, & restAPI (RESTful) - denji/awesome-http-benchmark

11/18/2020

Regular expressions are a lot of fun. Here's an example that will convert links in Markdown to anchors in HTML.

https://zcu.io/lNu6

Examples on how to convert Markdown anchors to HTML anchors using Regular Expressions in Javascript and PHP.

11/16/2020

Welcome back, my friend.

https://zcu.io/Jj1S

GitHub also establishes a $1 million "developer defense fund" to help open source developers fight against abusive DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims.

11/16/2020

I wrote a basic code post about how to resize images based on browser scroll. Demo inside.

https://zcu.io/wCR3

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/pfhwqdgs/ Resizing or positioning items based on page scroll is a pretty...

11/12/2020

Really excited about the .NET 5 release!

https://zcu.io/tIRb

What's new in .NET 5? Learn how .NET Core and .NET Framework evolve into the new cross-platform framework.

11/02/2020

I want one. I'm not 100% sure where I'll use it yet, but I love the idea that I could just stuff it in my backpack and go.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/