My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Real music and authentic voices

September 09, 2023
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The question of 'real music' has plagued and disrupted principled musical discourse for years. I have always seen it as ...

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Configure dotnet-monitor in an AKS cluster for Managed Grafana

August 04, 2023
4 min read

dotnet-monitor provides snapshots of .NET metrics in the Prometheus exposition format, Prometheus in turn collects ...

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We shape our tools thereafter they shape us

July 11, 2023
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I have had some productive push back from friends and ex-colleagues who have been trying to process the mostly ...

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Curiosity unbounded

June 29, 2023
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An excerpt from the speech given by Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s 18th president:'Curiosity is the passion to understand how ...

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Identify with the customer problem

June 19, 2023
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I have been reflecting on my time at Microsoft and specifically what I consider my biggest mistakes, after some careful ...

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Kubernetes mutating admission webhook for dotnet-monitor?

June 16, 2023
2 min read

A couple of teams I am currently worked with on dotnet-monitor integration have expressed that there is a non-zero ...

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Building the Arm64 Visual Studio experience

May 19, 2023
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When the native version of Arm64 Visual Studio was released we knew that bringing along all the components and ...

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Public Art Museums

May 04, 2023
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I thoroughly enjoy museums, more specifically Art museums and I was taking inventory of some of the world class ...

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The return of WinDbg

April 15, 2023
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We finally have a new version of WinDbg that is available outside of the Microsoft Store, and as an added bonus that ...

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