jsingleton

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Technology professionals using our skills to amplify the Climate Movement(climateaction.tech)
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Your Planet Needs You(unop.uk)
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by jsingleton 8y ago
We found meetup.com to be bad value for our meetup too so we moved away https://unop.uk/starting-a-tech-meetup/
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by jsingleton 8y ago
The reason this warning will appear in Firefox is that it does not use the OS certificate store and it uses a built-in store. The corporate MitM cert will have been added to the OS root cert store so other browsers will trust it but it prob
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by jsingleton 8y ago
I use ProtonVPN (and ProtonMail) for business but I haven't been that impressed so far. For personal use (e.g. BBC abroad) I just use OpenVPN on a Raspberry Pi. I recently wrote a full review on my blog (so I won't repeat it all h
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by jsingleton 8y ago
It's going to be tough, not technically but politically. We're not doomed just yet but serious action is required right now. Something on the scale of Facebook and Google getting behind it and using their reach to motivate people.
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by jsingleton 8y ago
I'm not bothered about the bottom camera as I don't use it. The specs are pretty good otherwise if you max it out. However, the battery life is terrible after upgrading Ubuntu LTS from 16 to 18 as it doesn't sleep properly. I
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by jsingleton 8y ago
The new UI was useful when it was opt-in and we were migrating from on-prem TFS to what was then called VSTS. It made it easy to tell which system you were using. I'm more used to the old UI but some features are not easily discoverabl
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by jsingleton 8y ago
This was the main inspiration for the posts and I refer back to it. Software is everywhere and can absolutely make a difference. Hopefully this will inspire others too.
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This is true, and many more companies too. What I was getting at though was that tech companies have lots of influence but choose not to address this challenge and instead focus on advertising or other areas.
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by jsingleton 8y ago
I mean both, first 'prevent a two-degree shift' then 'transition to an zero-net-emissions economy' and finally even negative emissions. This was almost solved in the 1980s and wasn't but that's a sunk-cost fall
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by jsingleton 8y ago
There is lots of action still required to reach your realistic scenario. Don't give up. You can help. Hopefully this can motivate people in an optimistic way: https://unop.uk/how-to-help-with-a-big-global-problem-as-a-t
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by jsingleton 8y ago
Depressingly pragmatic. While building resilience is certainly worthwhile, we can still fix this and should try. I think individual actions can add up, particularly when we use the magnifying power of tech. I wrote a lot on this recently an
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by jsingleton 8y ago
Very well put. We have the tools to fix this problem, we just need the will. I wrote a lot more on this recently, with ideas that people on here can use to help influence better outcomes: https://unop.uk/how-to-help-with-a-b
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by jsingleton 8y ago
I wrote a trilogy of long posts on this topic very recently so I'll just link to that. https://unop.uk/how-to-help-with-a-big-global-problem-as-a-t... In summary, it's not somebody else's problem. It's o
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by jsingleton 8y ago
This is a good point. Optimism is good for motivation but it has to result in action and not be simply ignoring a problem. Pessimism paralyses people into inaction but by understanding the psychology we can change that. I wrote a series of
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by jsingleton 8y ago
Previously: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/f6f50d1f-a879-49... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12093986 ) Only took 2 years! I suspect the imminent release of Chrome 68 was
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BBC News on HTTPS(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jsingleton 8y ago|2 comments
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by jsingleton 8y ago
I actually wrote a couple of blog posts about some of my favourite books for summer reading recently. https://unop.uk/6-non-technical-book-recommendations/ https://unop.uk/3-more-non-technical-book-reco
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by jsingleton 9y ago
The framework is included with the application, so no install is needed. You can already generate a self-contained platform-agnostic deployment that includes the framework, but it contains lots of files. You need to specify the platform, ye
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by jsingleton 9y ago
This is a bit complex, but for what most people think of as WCF (enterprise SOAP APIs) then it is not supported on .NET Core. The W stands for Windows after all. However, the ASP.NET Core MVC framework supports Web API and this was original
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by jsingleton 9y ago
For the UK (and France) this has a lot of geeky detail: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ UK data (inc. solar) with CO2 emissions in app form: http://gridcarbon.uk/
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by jsingleton 9y ago
Basically this, but they also push things like Application Insights, which is heavily tied to Azure. The VS Code editor is also embedded in the Azure web portal. So by getting people using Code they may find it easier to up-sell to Azure. I
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by jsingleton 9y ago
Yeah, I meant the startup culture in SF/SV. Among regular companies I assume .NET will have a fair share of use.
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by jsingleton 9y ago
I think .NET's vision is get people using Azure. You could say the same about VS Code. MS want to gain developer mind-share and get them using their cloud.
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by jsingleton 9y ago
.NET is pretty popular in the UK and elsewhere (particularly in finance) but you also see Java/Oracle in the same space. There are moves towards JavaScript/TypeScript for modern front-ends though. The only place .NET appears to be
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by jsingleton 9y ago
Link to the recording (slides and audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=garlskQb8BU
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by jsingleton 9y ago
I've written[0] and spoken[1] a lot about .NET Core, so I understand that it can be confusing. The similar naming certainly doesn't help. To summarize (and oversimplify) there are three main varieties of .NET: .NET Core, .NET Fram
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Introducing .NET IL Linker(github.com)
192 points by jsingleton 9y ago|75 comments
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by jsingleton 9y ago
Xamarin makes this separation work pretty well. Not Xamarin.Forms but a core business logic project with custom UI projects for each platform. I'm hoping this will turn into a good solution. Xamarin already supports Mac (in addition to

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