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Jun 23, 2022

ESI: An Intro to Azure DevOps

For the next few weeks, I'd like to write a few blog posts as I go through the Enterprise Skills Initiative, a Microsoft website that seems to consist mostly of courses on learning Azure, with a little bit of GitHub and VSCode thrown in too. I got an email from

legacy internet explorer

Jun 22, 2022

Ding dong, IE is dead (sorta)

Last week, Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer, nearly 27 years after its release in 1995. What else was Microsoft up to in the 90s?

reflection code merge

Jun 19, 2022

Every process, every person, every thing - a work in progress

As I sit here at the week end, chilling with some good mead, I'm wondering if the days leading up to a production release ever go smoothly?

Jun 15, 2022

Dish sucks, but porting your number doesn't (who knew)

Gotta love it when a large company buys a small competitor and drives it into the ground. Not everyone can do that, but Dish is up to the challenge.

browser extension google chromium standards dev question

Jun 6, 2022

What is Manifest V3 and why is Google pestering me about it?

If you've ever dug into the underpinnings of a browser extension, or maybe even created one yourself, you've seen the

digital detox gamification

Feb 26, 2022

Duolingo, now with 100% less gamification

Like Duolingo, but not a fan of all the gamification? You can change it, and it's not even hard. Let's see how.

digital detox youtube

Feb 19, 2022

A little fence here, a little speed bump there...

Can we redefine the tools we use, avoiding endless rabbit holes by adding a little more friction to the process?

digital detox twitter

Feb 18, 2022

I tried to make Twitter work for me. I failed. I'm okay with it.

I started the week considering how to finally make Twitter useful. I ended it by nuking my account. C'est la vie.

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