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Pivot

February 08, 2023
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I remember dismissing the iPhone as a fad, you can look back at my archive and see that I barely mentioned it. I saw it ...

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All coding languages, except one, grow up

January 31, 2023
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The following was a quote from earlier this year from Microsoft Azure CTO:'Speaking of languages, it's time to halt ...

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Smithsonian Open Access

January 22, 2023
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The Smithsonian has made over 4 million images available to download, edit, remix and distribute:Welcome to Smithsonian ...

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Statistical anomaly detection to help resolve app crashes faster

January 20, 2023
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A lot of the recent tools I have focused on helps developers understand traces and memory dumps, but it generally ...

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PowerShell IntelliSense completion

January 08, 2023
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You may have noticed that PowerShell has suddenly started making some pretty remarkable suggestions while at the ...

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Debugger Text Visualizer

January 04, 2023
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How many times have you found yourself looking at some text you have URL encoded only to be unsure what those ...

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Sounds like a prison

December 19, 2022
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I have a strong interest in the open web. One of the fundamental tenets of our web is the simple and ubiquitous link. ...

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Auto send new blog posts to Mastodon

December 07, 2022
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In the past I have suggested using Power Automate to send updates to Twitter when ever you have new blog posts. This ...

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Uncritical analysis

December 05, 2022
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I do worry that we have uncritically accepted the idea that decentralization is 'just better' than the alternative ...

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