Build 2022 Day 2
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Well it’s over. Microsoft Build is over for another year. I really don’t like the last day of a conference because everyone is leaving. They are packing up all the booths. Wait, this is a virtual conference. Yet it still has that feel like half the people have left and all the excitement is gone. It’s a little depressing if you think of it. So, what did I learn on this last day?…
Build 2022 Day 1
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Ah! It’s my favorite time of year again. The Microsoft Build developer conference is here and boy do we have some great things coming this year from Microsoft. Project Volterra Probably the biggest part of the day was the announcement of Project Volterra. This is part of their Open Hardware Ecosystem that aims to obfuscate platforms. From Wi-Fi and cellular chipsets that ensure you are connected, to GPUs and CPUs that share workloads.…
Chezmoi for DotFiles
Monday, May 16, 2022
Chezmoi for DotFiles For the past 11 years I have maintained all of my dotfiles in a repository on GitHub . In fact this was the first repository I ever created up there. The idea was that I would copy my dotfiles into a folder called .dotfiles and then copy them to the appropriate location myself. This is a bit painful at the best of times, and I just don’t do it other times.…
Software RAID on Raspberry Pi
Sunday, January 2, 2022
A year or so I got a piece of hardware. This piece of hardware, the Quad SATA kit for Raspberry Pi , allows a person to attach 4 SATA laptop drives to a Raspberry Pi. These drives are connected to the Raspberry Pi via the two USB 3 ports. This opens up a lot of possibilities of things to do with the Raspberry Pi. At the time I filmed a video on how to turn a Raspberry Pi into network attached storage (NAS) part 1 part 2 and part 3 .…
Would the Real SRP Standup
Sunday, December 12, 2021
This is a long awaited return to my TDD “series” that I started in 2005 with 1, 0, 0 in x seconds . In that post I talked about the development loop of test driven development, or the red -> green -> refactor method. I still strive for this today. But it’s gotten quite complex. This post will look at another aspect of good clean architecture by talking about SRP.…
Installing Hugo
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
I’ve written about how Hugo saved my website and how to deal with page resources . (Although, I now use ![]() syntax for images.) But I haven’t really done any deep dives into Hugo. I’m going to change that now. This blog post is all about installing Hugo. The reason I’m writing this post is because installing it isn’t as easy as it should be. Linux Install I’m starting with Linux because it is the easiest.…
Install PWA on Edge
Monday, May 10, 2021
PWA or Progressive Web Apps are the future, like it or not. Many companies are learning that it is too costly to maintain a group of engineers for Web, Android, iOS, and Windows. So what to do? There are other alternatives such as Xamarin, but that isn’t available for web yet. (See .NET 6 and Blazor apps for that.) For now the best way forward for companies is to add a PWA and see what platforms need special attention.…
Webrush
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
I was on a podcast recently. Working with JavaScript on TVs and Xbox’s with Todd Spatafore . Have a listen and let me know what you think!
Arch Linux Printer Install
Friday, January 8, 2021
Introduction I’m glutton for punishment. A couple months ago I took my stable and user friendly Ubuntu Linux install and replaced it with Arch Linux. Why? Please see the first sentence. Since then it’s been running really well. There’s a manual step to update things like Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Visual Studio Code because they come from the Arch User Repository (AUR). Today when I was updating Microsoft Edge I lost all my open tabs.…
Why You Should Use Windows 10 Administration in 2021
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Introduction I have been having a lot of fun over on my YouTube channel building out videos for various topics including new features in the Windows Insider builds. However, this isn’t my first time doing videos. I have done a couple of courses for Packt Publishing. One of them is Windows 10 Administration . The course has 6 main sections that take you on a whirlwind journey through Windows 10 Administration.…