Beautiful article about music theory origins

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/western-music-isnt-what-you-think

Why is the MTU of an Ethernet frame 1500 bytes?

Magic Numbers

Fun confetti effects in JS

https://www.kirilv.com/canvas-confetti

TIL: LEI code

https://www.ssldragon.com/lei-codes

TL;DR: a LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) is a unique 20-characters code identifying any worldwide business accepting or performing financial payments. It is defined by ISO 17442 and accepted by G20.

Every software system needs a health check automated sequence

Something I’ve realized while struggling to make a plan to upgrade all system components to TLS 1.3: it would have been much easier if there was a dashboard showing the status of all connections between subsystems (front end sites, secondary front end sites, processing services, auxiliary services, databases and so on); each subsystem should report its status, which means custom code is required and also that the health check dashboard should be custom coded.

I like this blog

https://lcamtuf.substack.com

TIL: Cockpit project – Linux administration portal

https://cockpit-project.org

It seems Azure DNS will soon support DNSSEC

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/network/dns/dnssec-config?view=azure-cli-latest

TIL: alternative to ILMerge

https://github.com/gluck/il-repack

If you are lucky enough to be able to target .NET instead of .NET Framework, you can also obtain the same effect during build; use, for example, the “PublishSingleFile” command line parameter of the dotnet tool. You might also want to experiment with the PublishSingleFile and PublishTrimmed project properties.

D’ale biroului …

Bug description with a sweet misspelling: “rapidly licking the color picker multiple times will break it” – “licking” instead of “clicking” 🙂