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Radical amazement

December 26, 2024
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My goal over this winter break is to be sufficiently disconnected from work such that the list of my most important ...

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Blazor WebAssembly debugging with Visual Studio

December 03, 2024
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Not sure if you good folks have noticed but Visual Studio has drastically improved the debugging experience for Blazor ...

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Validate your identity on Bluesky with your GitHub account

November 25, 2024
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Fellow developers and OS Contributors, do you want to verify yourself on Bluesky but you lack a personal domain? For ...

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Making Music with Windows on Arm

October 23, 2024
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After boldly declaring that the Arm development ecosystem is ready for the mainstream, I wanted to follow up on how Arm ...

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What is a photograph?

September 25, 2024
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I am not sure why I am so fascinated by this particular question. I started thinking about it more as I saw a deluge of ...

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Divine right of founders

September 05, 2024
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A founder wields considerable authority, I am not sure if it is too absurd to compare it to the divine right of kings, ...

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Easier to fix async exceptions

August 14, 2024
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One of the single most frustrating things about debugging async Task functions in Visual Studio is that exceptions ...

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Monopoly

August 06, 2024
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A Federal Judge  rules against Google today and the principle cause appeared to be that Google paid Apple $10 billion a ...

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Unintended consequences

August 05, 2024
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The biggest global IT outage in history created by Crowdstrike impacted friend and foe without discrimination. There ...

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