My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Responsible AI safeguards

June 22, 2022
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I am fascinated by what we can enable with AI, however, any new technology that is distributed irresponsibly can codify ...

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Native support for Visual Studio on Arm64 is here!

June 15, 2022
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Visual Studio has always been built to target processors based on the x32/x64 architectures, and there were no versions ...

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Introducing Project Volterra

May 26, 2022
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Project Volterra is a Windows dev kit with an Arm CPU and NPU. It will include native Arm64 Visual Studio and .NET ...

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.NET MAUI - Unifying the .NET platform

May 24, 2022
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One of the many reasons millions of developers choose .NET is that the platform lets you build anything you can imagine ...

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Configuring the Diagnostics Port for dotnet monitor

May 12, 2022
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So I have been working on the dotnet-monitor tool team since inception and there is some really interesting underlying ...

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Cyberattacks as acts of war

April 29, 2022
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Just finished reading the Special Report: Ukraine - An overview of Russia’s cyberattack activity in Ukraine. The report ...

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More Diagnostic Analysis in Visual Studio

April 06, 2022
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One of the developer journeys I have focused on at Microsoft includes the diagnostics and debugging flow that typically ...

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Apropos of nothing

April 02, 2022
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After being brutalized by hurt and loss, the temptation is to treat others brutally in turn. We must resist and reject ...

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Large-scale social engineering

March 24, 2022
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Even as someone who is somewhat tech savvy I automatically think of hacking as an exercise in overcoming the technical ...

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