A macOS / Linux developer takes an adventure in Windows 11.
MSHub == FOSS Love?
It looks like the Octocat is out of the bag. Microsoft is acquiring Github for what one can only imagine is a few Brinks trucks of cash. There’s been quite a lot of response in the Linux and free software community already on this. One of Github’s primary rivals...
Why Alice Runs JavaScript
Over at The Mad Botter I've been working my tail off trying to get a new version of our AI Slack bot Alice out before the end of the new year. As the code has become more complex, I turned to Typescript, Microsoft's programming language that's intended to bring static...
Brutal Bots
Bots are the new hotness that Microsoft, Facebook, and others hope will be the next tech phenomenon, supplanting the maturing app market. It makes sense that Facebook and Microsoft would be looking for the next big thing, since they largely missed out on the app gold...
Microsoft Tay Lasts < 1 Day
Microsoft briefly released an AI chat bot on Twitter that was intended to be a test of sorts for their machine learning technologies. This bot was called Tay and was meant to have the personality and likeness of a teenage girl and much like a real teenage girl, she...
Playing Hockey in MS Stadium
Before Apple acquired Testflight last year, we were heavy users of the service for both iOS and Android deployments. This fit well with our strategy at the time of providing affordable prototyping for entrepreneurs that could be tested on both major mobile platforms....
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