My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

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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DasBlog support for WebFinger

November 27, 2022
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I have been on Twitter since about 2009, at that point it had already moved from being predominantly driven by texting ...

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Setting fire to a public digital library

November 13, 2022
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The Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt, was probably the largest and most significant collection of writings during ...

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.NET Conf 2022 announcements

November 09, 2022
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.NET Conference is underway and you could be forgiven for missing all the announcements, the Developer Division has ...

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High performing developer teams are all alike

October 28, 2022
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'High performing developer teams are all alike; every dysfunctional developer team is dysfunctional in its own ...

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dotnet-monitor: Enabling a diagnostics sidecar in AKS

September 20, 2022
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My colleague Kyle Keirstead has been working on a series of dotnet-monitor videos that share useful information on its ...

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dotnet-monitor: Querying the trigger state

September 08, 2022
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dotnet-monitor can be easily configured to automatically collect dumps, traces and logs based on conditions detected ...

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