My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

My Contribution to Open Live Writer

November 01, 2016
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A few months back I had some creative energy to burn and so I started looking for an open source project to contribute ...

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Moral Machine - The Problem is Choice

October 25, 2016
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I have several posts now that have made the case that our implicit bias seeps into our software in playful, harmful, ...

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General Patterns used to Detect a Leak

October 12, 2016
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One of the problems I have in my field is that it is sometimes difficult to produce clear unassailable facts, for ...

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Groove App: Understanding Context

October 04, 2016
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I have been using the Microsoft Groove ecosystem for a long time now, back when we used to call it Zune and it we had ...

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Yahoo breach

September 24, 2016
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I have been watching with morbid fascination the release of information related to the Yahoo breach that may have ...

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Hacked under the cover of jQuery

September 12, 2016
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I was recently the victim of a hack on my site, it was quite disarming to realize I was out maneuvered on a platform ...

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Windows 10 Tip: Surface Pen Shortcuts

September 07, 2016
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When I first got my Surface I did not get the Pen, I was kind of locked into the idea that what I had purchased was a ...

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Instant Articles for dasBlog

August 29, 2016
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A few months ago now Facebook opened up Instant Articles to publishers great and small. Instant Articles have become ...

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Adding Bash on Windows 10–New Dev tools

August 24, 2016
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So I am working on integrating AMP pages into dasBlog (coming along nicely, thanks for asking) and as I am going ...

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