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I Miss Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It ...
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I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, ...
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Open Sourcing DOS 4
See the canonical version of this blog post at the Microsoft Open Source Blog! ...
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Everything's broken and nobody's upset
Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just ...
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The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air
There's something happening in the E Ink space, somewhat quietly, but ...
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How to deal with extreme physical pain
I'm in a LOT of pain right now. It's hard to say that, especially considering ...
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The code worked differently when the moon was full
I love a good bug, especially ones that are initially hard to explain but then ...
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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Can you believe it's been 6 years since my last Tools list? Tools have changed, ...
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I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It ...
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Python Tools for Visual Studio
I've talked some about the sweet support for node and PHP in Azure. You can ...
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Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux
It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work for Microsoft, ...
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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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Announcing .NET Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter Notebooks has been the significant player in the interactive ...
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Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a ...
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Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen
UPDATE: The contractor/vendor that made the software commented on Hacker News ...
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Old People Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore
The Floppy Disk Icon means 'save' for a whole generation of people who have ...
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There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe
I recently worked on the update to the ASP.NET site, now in beta at ...
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URLs are UI
What a great title. 'URLs are UI.' Pithy, clear, crisp. Very true. I've been ...
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Introducing ASP.NET vNext
There’s some really cool stuff going on on the ASP.NET and Web Tools team. The ...
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I'm a phony. Are you?
pho·ny also pho·ney (fō'nē) adj. pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est 1. a. Not genuine or ...
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WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly
If you're on a version of Windows 11 that is build 22000 or greater, you can ...
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Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled."
Welcome Hacker News, Slashdot, DF and TechMeme. Be sure to read the follow up ...
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they are ...
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Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites
I noticed yesterday that some C#, JavaScript and CSS files I had sitting in ...
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Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)
The standard for browsing the web over a text-=based terminal is Lynx, right? ...
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Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page
Sometimes good UX is about being clever. Sometimes it's to make the user happy ...
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Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns - The Programmer's Priorities
I recently said something that ended up making the rounds on Twitter: 'If ...
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Exploring the new .NET “dotnet” CLI
I've never much liked the whole 'dnvm' and 'dnu' and 'dnx' command line stuff ...
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Your Words are Wasted
It needs to be said again, perhaps this time more strongly. Your Blog is The ...