If you caught any recent Coder Radio, then you know I’ve been heavily evaluating the Revolution Pi. As an industrial-grade, DIN-rail mountable compute module, it is a highly effective way to bypass the vendor lock-in that has traditionally choked the automation...
The Revolution Pi: a Wrecking Ball to Vendor Lock-in
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If you're a Coder Radio listener, you already know the deal: I love my Mac hardware, but a massive chunk of the software I write, deploy, and talk about is destined to live on a Linux machine, either an IOT device or a server. Before I started using desktop Linux for...
MSBuild 26: The Year of Linux
Over the more than a decade that I've been hosting Coder Radio, there's been an evolving story about Microsoft's relationship with Linux. It's been a trend of at first resistance (think the Balmer era) and now full on embrace. Can it be? Well, if you followed Build...
COSMIC 1.0.15: Taking Gaming Seriously
COSMIC 1.0.15 is not the sort of release that screams at you from the bridge view-screen. There is no giant redesign, no “we reinvented computing again” marketing fog machine, and no new panel animation that requires a think piece. Instead, this is the much more...
Why We Open-Sourced Alice
Why We Open-Sourced Alice The glass box is now actually made of glass. For years we've told people that Alice is a glass box, not a black box. That you should be able to see through the dashboard — past the pretty number, down to the exact query that produced it. That...
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