My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

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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Primary constructors - class vs record

June 22, 2024
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I was roped into a discussion about how the Visual Studio debugger interprets parameters passed via a primary ...

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The Arm development ecosystem is ready

June 17, 2024
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I have been keeping a close eye on the Arm software and hardware ecosystem for sometime and it is clear that we are at ...

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Bringing the Aspire dashboard to ACA

June 04, 2024
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The .NET team just released the GA version of Aspire! It looks awesome check out Demystifying cloud-native development ...

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Understanding time value in Product Development

April 22, 2024
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'The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite, That ever I was born to set it right!' – HamletI have and always will think ...

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