Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task. Well, I found a| SSG's
Self-taught software developer. Former engineer at Microsoft Windows Core OS Division. Author of the book Street Coder published by Manning Publications. Created Eksi Sozluk, the most popular Turkish social platform since 1999.| SSG's
A partially accurate historical account on how we finally arrived at passkeys as the ultimate solution to accessible and secure authentication from simple passwords.| SSG's
My adventures dealing with purchasing AppleCare+ along with the iPhone.| SSG's
Thoughts on Scott Hanselman's TEDx talk titled "Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?"| SSG's
I’ve known about IPv6 for the last two decades or so, but I’ve never gone beyond “an overengineered solution to the IPv4 address space problem”. IPv6 was even presented as “every atom could get its own IP address, no IP address shortages anymore| SSG's
Fake people and fake news have existed on Internet since forever. They didn’t make such a terrible impact at the beginning because Internet…| SSG's
This was an answer I wrote years ago on Quora, now I moved it here.| SSG's
This is my UI design advice inspired from “Eval is evil.” Stop relying on hover for revealing hidden actions, or providing essential...| SSG's
This is an excerpt from my book Street Coder, prepared by Christopher Kaufmann from Manning Publications.| SSG's
I’m writing a book titled Street Coder for beginner and medium-level programmers. It’s got released recently as part of Manning Early…| SSG's
I’ve tried Hey email service for 10 days in its 14 day evaluation period and have finally decided that it’s not for me.| SSG's
I saw a question on Quora asking this and I started to write an answer. But it got so long that I converted into a post here.| SSG's
TradeNet (later TradeSoft), the company I worked for back in 2000 had me enrolled in a .NET Early Adopter Training Program which taught…| SSG's
So you plan on switching to .NET Core 3.0 but you’re not sure if you also want to make use of the new feature called “nullable references”. Yes, it is a great feature in terms of preventing bugs and crashes so you should be using it, but how should you approach switching to it?| SSG's
This is the slightly edited version of my answer on Quora from 2019.| SSG's
WARNING: This article might contain spoilers from Season 8 Episode 3 of Game of Thrones.| SSG's
My attempt at talking about one of the most underrated features of C#.| SSG's
