What is .Net Core?

.Net Core is a framework from Microsoft that runs on all of the common desktop platforms. They took all of the awesome stuff from .Net Framework and left out the bloaty and unnessecary parts.

Not only is smoking bad for your health and you waste a lot of money. You also waste a ton of time to care for your smoking habits.

Some days ago, when I tried to add features to this blog I wrote more than a year ago, I was confused with the code I found. I seperated the logic that does the data aggregation but in the "view" there was just a messed up php-html-mix and it was crappy to read and even crazier to edit.

Workflowy is a tool I'm using for a long time now. Here and there I got distracted from using it but for all my personal projects workflowy finally came into play to keep track of my stuff.

Workflowy, basically, is a never ending list of tasks that you can append and manage.

I received a mail some days ago that may make one really uncomfortable if you're not aware of the fact that this is just a decent scam attempt. Just to make it clear: I have nothing to do with the things I am accused of in this email and I understand that this is a serious topic.

NO PAIN - NO GAIN

This is not only valid for training in the gym. From time to time it's important to leave your comfort zone to get into latest technology, especially when you're employed at IT.

Recently, while idling around on twitch, I found a guy who does live coding for a unity 3d game. Not only that you can watch him code, you can play WHILE he's coding.

Recently I was searching for a Kanban board to manage my daily tasks inside the company. As the company has a focus on security, I am not allowed to use online tools like trello or so and to be honest, I really wouldn't want to give that data away.

I recently listened to an episode of the syntax podcast about React. They had nice hints and explinations about the topic but what was most important; in that episode they gave a hint to a really interesting podcast, other than the tech podcasts I'm used to: Darknet Diaries.

Do you know that issue, when a program could do a small job pretty quickly and you setup a new C# Project in Visual Studio, hack some stuff in, run it and never touch that project again?

Then LINQPad is the right thing for you! You can run C# Code without setting up a whole project and get your results in a sexy textbox. Check it out, it's absolutely worth it!

Edit: I really don't know why every recommendation I write sounds like an advertisement.