The Thirsty Robot

November. The eleventh month in the year, although the name looks like it is something to do with the number nine. As was mentioned last month, The Thirsty Robot is now going to publish the summary every month, although this one is very late! So, here's some of what you may have missed in November's online meetings at The Thirsty Robot: All in the Name: Blazor As it says on Microsoft's web-page for Blazor: ' Blazor lets you build interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor apps are composed of reusable web UI components implemented using C#, HTML, and CSS. Both client and server code is written in C#, allowing you to share code and libraries.' https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazor Blazing fast? Just don't confuse it with the blazer, the article of clothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazer Photo by   Ali Karimiboroujeni   on   Unsplash If we were being really clever, of course, the photo...

October. The tenth month in the year, although the name looks like it is something to do with the number eight. Rather than every fortnight, The Thirsty Robot is now going to publish the summary every month, although this one is very late! So, here's some of what you may have missed in October's online meetings at The Thirsty Robot: Technology Photo by  Michael Dziedzic  on  Unsplash Data Breaches (or Leaks) At the start of October, the not-very-surprising news was that another InterWeb giant had lost some user data. You will excuse us if we aren't astonished by this news. This time it was Twitch, and once again, it barely made any headlines anywhere. It seems that nowadays the theft of personal information by organised crime is just regarded as inevitable and therefore should be acceptable and expected, and so we shouldn't get upset about it. Instead it seems that we should all just let the bad guys do it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58809169 https://www.bbc...