How did household income and wealth change in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic? /Comment le revenu et le patrimoine financier des ménages ont-ils varié durant la pandémie de COVID-19 en 2020?

May 28, 2021 No comments Article

Today, we released new data on household economic well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic—experimental quarterly estimates for the fourth quarter of 2020.Here are some highlights from our release:Disposable income declined for most households in the fourth quarter of 2020, with the largest losses for the lowest-income earners (-10.2%).Despite declines in disposable income in the fourth quarter,

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How to Build an Event-Driven ASP.NET Core Microservice Architecture

May 17, 2021 No comments Article

This post describes how to create two C# and ASP.NET Core Microservices. Both microservices have their own bounded context and domain model. Each microservice has its own database and REST API. One microservice publishes integration events, that the other microservice consumes. via /r/dotnet https://ift.tt/3tRBsuY

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Reading books is my therapy

May 16, 2021 No comments Article

Every so often, I read a book where an author speaks to my soul. I feel like I crave deeper and more meaningful conversations in my life, and when I don’t have access to that (which is the majority of the time), I feel so deeply fulfilled by books.I just read David Chang’s Eat a

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TIL: You can change a credit card’s billing cycle!

May 6, 2021 No comments Article

I’m going to get some flak, or duhs, but TIL you can change a credit card’s billing cycle and payment due date!?!I’ve had the same cards for 10 or so years. Recently got myself an Amazon credit card as I’ve been getting stuff from Amazon and is a prime member. Plus, they had 2.5% back

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PSA: The .NET Source Browser is Super, SUPER Useful

April 26, 2021 No comments Article

Browsing .NET source code in GitHub is tedious. Browsing it in the .NET Source Browser is not, and lets you not only easily search for & browse source code, but click to go to definitions, explore projects and namespaces, link to line numbers, and a whole lot more.I suggest checking it out. It’s a great

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What controls the auth in Identity?

April 23, 2021 No comments Article

Hello guys!I created a WebApi project with identity. The question is: I want to connect it to my React frontend but I am not sure how is Identity manage register/login/logout and all these account actions.I mean I can’t even see a controller or an api endpoint where you could initiate a login or register.So my

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Minimal hosting making its way to ASP.NET Core with .NET 6.

April 21, 2021 No comments Article

Feather HTTP like minimal hosting is making its way to the aspnetcore framework with .NET 6. It will be more like express.js way. Check out the following example. This won’t be a breaking change, but this will be another style of doing so. 😀using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http; var app = WebApplication.Create(args); app.MapGet(“/”, async

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.NET Core ASP – PDF Generation for hosting on Azure?

April 14, 2021 No comments Article

Dear all,I’ve been away from pdf generation / boring crud apps for a while, but I have an active project right now where people require me to generate PDFs for them. A few years ago (ASP.NET MVC5) this was a very enterprisey thing to do, because the (commercial) libraries were very expensive, and had per-cpu

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My simple Github project went Viral – Thank you Reddit!

April 14, 2021 No comments Article

Last month, I made a simple project which got spread in various tech communities and social media. On Github, It reached from 0 to 4k+ stars and 200+ forks within 7 days. Github featured it in Trending repositories of day section for straight 5 days or so.Some of you might remember 🙂 this was the

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My journey to $1M RRSP started 25 years ago

April 7, 2021 No comments Article

I see lots of people on here just starting out with their retirement savings. I thought it might be interesting to see a real-life example of one person’s retirement savings journey. I don’t consider myself typical, because I do make quite a bit compared to the Canadian average, but I want to show what can

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Tech salaries are increasing

April 1, 2021 No comments Article

I’m currently interviewing for Sr engineering positions and it seems like salaries have increased by 10-25%. Anyone else noticing this?I actually low balled myself in an interview. They said ‘yeah we can do that and more’. Whatever salary you wanted, add 20k to that number. via /r/PersonalFinanceCanada https://ift.tt/39zMMEW

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I made a Spotify playlist of 20th century poets reading their writings. There’s 29+ hours of poems and texts read by those who wrote them, and includes recordings by James Baldwin, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and many more! What are your thoughts?

April 1, 2021 No comments Article

Around the 1950s, the label Soundmark Records put out quite a few records of authors and poets reading their work, including James Baldwin, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes and more. The recordings include a mix of excerpts of novels and poetry.Last year

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We are cybersecurity researchers who wrote a book teaching people how to hack the Internet of Things, called Practical IoT Hacking. Ask us anything!

March 27, 2021 No comments Article

Hello, Reddit! We are cybersecurity researchers who wrote a book called Practical IoT Hacking that teaches readers how to hack Internet of Things devices safely and lawfully, with practical hands on examples and proven methodologies. You can buy physical and Kindle copies through Amazon or get the physical copy and DRM-free digital copy through the

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How My Household Easily Saved $400/month in Expenses

March 26, 2021 No comments Article

When COVID hit, my wife and I decided to seriously look at our finances to ensure that we were as stable as possible heading into the pandemic. Here are 4 ways that we were able to significantly cut down on our monthly expenses, ultimately saving thousands of dollars per year:1) Cut cable and switched internet

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