A rare mineral, first discovered in Urals Mountains of Russia in 1839 by Lev Prevoski, has excited scientists by exhibiting properties that could be exploited to make our internet around a lot faster than today

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Adding a permissive license to your open source projects makes it easy for others to benefit from reusing your code. I typically recommend the MIT license for most projects because it’s simple, well understood, and allows the code to be used for essentially any purpose.

Sometimes, in order to get rapid feedback, it’s useful to throw together a prototype that has literally nothing going on in the backend, but lets the user get a sense of how the application would flow. The problem, of course, is that once users see such a thing, they can’t always tell the difference between smoke and mirrors and the real thing. 

The volatile keyword in C# is used to inform the JIT compiler that the value of the variable should never be cached because it might be changed by the operating system, the hardware, or a concurrently executing thread.  

Fuqi Lin of Peking University estimates that in the 1.5  years to April 2020 over 1 million apps were removed from the iOS app market!  

Update 2020-04-02: Today, the ES2020 candidate was released, with the final feature set of that version. This blog post describes what’s new. 

Although it sounds like HttpContextBase should be the base class of HttpContext, I just figured out that this is not the case.