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Xbox Avatar accessories for People with Diabetes! Sponsored by Nightscout and...
My Xbox user name is Glucose for a reason. This is a passion project of mine. You've likely seen me blog about diabetes for many many years. You may have enjoyed my diabetes hacks like lighting up my...
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What is Blazor and what is Razor Components?
I've blogged a little about Blazor, showing examples like Compiling C# to WASM with Mono and Blazor then Debugging .NET Source with Remote Debugging in Chrome DevTools as well as very early on asking...
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Getting Started with .NET Core and Docker and the Microsoft Container Registry
It's super easy to get started with .NET Core and/or ASP.NET Core with Docker. If you have Docker installed you don't need to install anything to try out .NET Core, of course. To run a little .NET Core...
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F7 is the greatest PowerShell hotkey that no one uses any more. We must fix...
Thousands of years ago your ancestors, and myself, were using DOS (or CMD) pressing F7 to get this amazing little ASCII box to pop up to pick commands they'd typed before.When I find myself in cmd.exe...
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Displaying your realtime Blood Glucose from NightScout on an AdaFruit PyPortal
AdaFruit makes an adorable tiny little Circuit Python IoT device called the PyPortal that's just about perfect for the kids - and me. It a little dakBoard, if you will - a tiny totally programmable...
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The Transitive Property of Friendship - and the importance of the Warm Intro
Per Wikipedia, "In mathematics, a binary relation ... is transitive if ... element a is related to an element b and b is related to an element c then a is also related to c." Per Me, if I am cool with...
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Coders: Context Switching is hard for both computers and relationships
Clive Thompson is a longtime contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Wired and now has a new book out called "Coders." "Along the way, Coders thoughtfully ponders the...
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Accessibility Insights for the Web and Windows makes accessibility even easier
I recently stumbled upon https://accessibilityinsights.io. There's both a Chrome/Edge extension and a Windows app, both designed to make it easier to find and fix accessibility issues in your websites...
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Blocking ads before they enter your house at the DNS level with pi-hole and a...
Lots of folks ask me about Raspberry Pis. How many I have, what I use them for. At last count there's at least 22 Raspberry Pis in use in our house. One runs our dakboard family dashboard that we...
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Your computer is not a black box - Understanding Processes and Ports on...
I did a blog post many years ago reminding folks that The Internet is not a Black Box. Virtually nothing is hidden from you. The same is true for your computer, whether it runs Linux, Mac, or Windows....
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Exploring DNS with the .NET Core based Technitium DNS Server
Earlier this week I talked about how Your Computer is not a Black Box and I spent time time in TCPView and at the command line exploring open ports on my computer. I was doing this in order to debug an...
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Open Source Artificial Pancreases will become the new standard of care for...
I've been a Type 1 diabetic for over 25 years. Diabetes sucks. They actually give you an award for staying alive for years on insulin. Diabetics don't usually die of old age, they die of heart disease...
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Software Defined Radio is a great way to bridge the physical and the digital...
One of the magical technologies that makes an Open Source Artificial Pancreas possible is "Software-defined Radio" or SDR. I have found that SDR is one of those technologies that you've either heard of...
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Did I leave the garage door open? A no-code project with Azure IoT Central...
For whatever reason when a programmer tries something out for the first time, they write a "Hello World!" application. In the IoT (Internet of Things) world of devices, it's always fun to make an LED...
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A new Console for Windows - It's the open source Windows Terminal
"My fellow Windows users, our long national nightmare is over." The Windows Terminal is here, it's open source, it's real, and it's spectacular. It's very early days to be clear, but the new Windows...
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An experiment - The Azure Cloud Shell at the command line with AZ SHELL
I've blogged before about the Azure Cloud Shell. It's super cool and you can get your own easily in any browse by hitting https://shell.azure.com. You can have either bash or powershell, and you get a...
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Systems Thinking as important as ever for new coders
I was at the Microsoft BUILD conference last week and spent some time with a young university student who came prepared. I was walking between talks and he had a sheet of paper organized with...
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Introducing the Try .NET Global Tool - interactive in-browser documentation...
If you find yourself learning C# and .NET and come upon the "Run your first C# Program" documentation you may have noticed a "Try the code in your browser" button that lets you work through your first...
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Using the Steam Link app to stream PC Games directly to your iPhone or mobile...
I think that we, as an industry, are still figuring game streaming out. It's challenging to find that sweet spot between quality and frames per second, all while respecting the speed of light and the...
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Visual Studio Code Remote Development may change everything
OK, that's a little clickbaity but it's surely impressed the heck out of me. You can read more about VS Code Remote Development (at the time of this writing, available in the VS Code Insiders builds)...
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