Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

• September 18th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Thu, 13:47: RT @maryjofoley: ICYMI: I got to talk with @tnkgrl on her latest #MobTechCast all about the Surface Duo. Check it out here: https://t.co/EP…
• Thu, 14:14: RT @dannyjpalmer: Here's the BIG feature I've been talking about. Looking forward to people reading it. Back in February someone tried to…
• Thu, 14:22: In my continuing attempt to get the YouTube algorithm to show more wholesome content, here's TRG Restoration's channel. They restore old metal toys, I especially recommend their Tonka work... https://t.co/7OZXGoU04h
• Thu, 14:42: RT @scalzi: HELLO UK COME SEE US https://t.co/gqilY8bO3s
• Thu, 16:38: Silver smoke haze https://t.co/i8tdPt2Al7
• Thu, 19:16: RT @lauriepottmeyer: There is a new comparison chart available to see which #MicrosoftTeams features are supported in different clients. Th…
• Thu, 20:27: So I am working on a version of the @AboveTustin ADS-B bot. It's not running yet, but I am close. It'll be @OverPutney when live...

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  #microsoftteams, #mobtechcast, twitter

• September 17th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Wed, 12:29: Needs mushrooms and a snake. https://t.co/hSV0KGnLOm
• Wed, 12:30: Yay! At last! https://t.co/YzuqjRLZ1r
• Wed, 13:31: So does anyone know of a good curses-based control panel for a headless ssh-connected Raspberry Pi?
• Wed, 15:47: Moved my ADS-B rig to an Argon 40 case. Running nice and cool now... https://t.co/uKIGVgOoe1
• Wed, 16:05: RT @runhappylife: Microsoft has confirmed captions are hidden when you share your screen in MS Teams 😟 This makes it inaccessible for me (…
• Wed, 16:08: RT @muskrat_john: A few years ago, the $14,000 INSANE CHARITY BIKE RIDE stretch-goal was a @neilhimself limerick, that I illustrated: https…
• Wed, 16:08: RT @muskrat_john: So here's the Big Announce: The 2020 $14,000 INSANE CHARITY BIKE RIDE Stretch-Goal will BE... A @GailSimone limerick, w…
• Wed, 16:09: RT @alexriesart: Barlowe is reprinting Expedition, folks: https://t.co/CTBm6LJQzT https://t.co/ZoZ0jZY77n
• Wed, 17:20: So the smoke from the US West Coast fires is here. There's a subtle change to the lighting, everything is that little bit yellower. It's like living in the colour filters US TV uses to convince us that LA is actually Mexico.
• Wed, 17:42: RT @DrPhiltill: I feel like a gnat watching a time-lapse video of a shrub growing. https://t.co/3hT9POS3xe

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• September 16th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Tue, 13:47: Over at @InfoWorld I take a deep dive into the first open source release of Microsoft's low-latency Fluid Framework. The tl;dr, it brings cloud native distributed serverless computing to your devices. This is a significant platform release from Microsoft. https://t.co/XmRPAlyaGc
• Tue, 13:47: RT @SamBroner: A really nice introduction to @FluidFramework by @sbisson. "The server isn’t the source of truth in the network; it’s only…
• Tue, 13:51: Finished season 2 of Star Trek Discovery last night; a really enjoyable show with a great ensemble cast and a classic space opera plot that doesn't break the Star Trek universe. Looking forward to season 3.
• Tue, 13:54: I seem to have multiple versions of the Office launcher app on different machines, and no way to get them all to converge on the latest release...
• Tue, 14:06: Aminal Corssing https://t.co/AmI3iaFTkh
• Tue, 15:22: OneUI 2.5 arrived for my Samsung Note 10+ 5G. Wireless DEX is interesting but fails to scale on a high DPI screen like my SB3s...
• Tue, 15:25: KC135 heading south at altitude over London earlier this afternoon... https://t.co/GuaNw1FmWG
• Tue, 17:01: RT @ryanfaas: FileMaker 19, hands on: Veteran keeps up with the low-code crowd | FileMaker has always been a fast option for business app d…
• Tue, 18:50: So if watchOS 7 is released tomorrow, and it needs iOS 14...
• Tue, 19:34: The Table. https://t.co/Oydi5FqBiO

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• September 15th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Mon, 12:58: Over at @techrepublic I drill down into HoloLens 2's new Research Mode and look at how it gives you access to all the device's sensors. https://t.co/iR3gxDATRH
• Mon, 13:47: Today I am mostly thinking about Fluid Framework and how it's taking cloud consistency models and applying them to collaboration.
• Mon, 14:09: Rocket shirt! https://t.co/VvIiT7ierT
• Mon, 14:19: RT @allisondlinn: Here's what we learned from Project Natick, our years-long research project to put a datacenter under the sea https://t.c…
• Mon, 14:22: Great; Outlook is marking email from our @arlosmarthome cameras as junk. Oddly not the front door, just the one on the stairs up from the hall...
• Mon, 14:30: I keep thinking it would be cool to mount a tiny low-power ADS-B transmitter on a pigeon.
• Mon, 15:20: RT @getwired: Rob and I have never delivered a Directions on Microsoft licensing boot camp in Australia. But I think we've nailed down a p…
• Mon, 15:21: RT @marypcbuk: in French it might be 'le truc' or 'le machin' which are the two most useful words to learn because then you don't need to k…
• Mon, 15:35: RT @davidmbarnett: Fen diagram https://t.co/QoJgNXWhcS
• Mon, 16:14: RT @NASASpaceflight: RAS confirm the news (that was out there via one site breaking an embargo) that phosphine (biomarker) has been observe…

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  #surfaceduo, twitter

• September 14th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Sun, 15:28: Sky. https://t.co/ic7bccZV2i
• Sun, 15:57: Green. https://t.co/Jjjp96fOLY
• Sun, 17:16: I finished this yesterday. It is well worth reading: https://t.co/CnKrQdL0f7
• Sun, 18:17: It's getting Dark And Stormy https://t.co/dQBKGFifwa
• Sun, 20:37: RT @tectonic: Big news coming out tomorrow: tentative and tantalizing evidence of possible microbial life in the clouds of Venus. https://…
• Sun, 20:51: And done! https://t.co/00LG30scwz
• Sun, 23:39: 21 years since we lost the Moon. Remembering the crew of Moonbase Alpha wherever they may be. #BreakawayDay #Space1999 https://t.co/zmv7OC22eG
• Mon, 00:19: This is not a bad thing for MS. What with US and Chinese government interests in play it would have quickly become an expensive poisoned chalice. https://t.co/iNXLkCWi9l
• Mon, 00:35: RT @technology: BREAKING: Nvidia says it agreed to buy SoftBank’s chip division Arm Ltd. for $40 billion, in the semiconductor industry’s l…
• Mon, 00:39: RT @krmarko: Boom. #ARMVIDIA https://t.co/XTZ6CeXuEI

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  #armvidia, #breakawayday, #space1999, twitter

• September 13th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Sat, 14:19: I now have a limited number of Drunk Parrot pins; for when we can go places and meet people again... https://t.co/e5MY09bPYf
• Sat, 16:01: ...not because they are easy but because they are hard. https://t.co/EGjPmZfQrf
• Sat, 20:23: Recent Reads: Empire Games. Charles Stross returns to the worlds of The Family Trade a generation on. Miriam has bootstrapped one world to 1960s tech, but two cold wars threaten to get very hot. In a world almost ours a US spy agency activates a world walker spy. Conspiracy time!

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  twitter

• September 12th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Fri, 13:05: Week 26. Day 182. So that's six months.
• Fri, 13:38: That's not good news. It needs to be down below 0.8 to get any effective suppression. https://t.co/Hi5TYfb7Ey
• Fri, 14:14: If there ever was a singer so soaked in place it would be Suzanne Vega in New York. https://t.co/anzWTAHxWc
• Fri, 14:52: Hmmm. Anyone else finding their OneDrive camera roll on PC out of sync with the photos in the OneDrive web and mobile apps?
• Fri, 14:57: I think I know what it is; the client isn't syncing HEIC images with PC.
• Fri, 15:26: RT @joaomoreno: @code insiders running on Linux ARM? You got it! 👌 My @Raspberry_Pi 4 is pretty happy running it on @ubuntu_mate. Get it t…
• Fri, 18:11: Ah, my Spotify Discover page reminded me of this classic piece of ambience... https://t.co/rQ0cdbTrI1
• Fri, 19:09: RT @ChiGamesStudio: #SurfaceDuo clock app made in #Unity2020 @unity3d @SurfaceDuo @surfaceduodev this is a surface duo exclusive. Should I…
• Fri, 19:21: In their continuing quest to find an evil boss, the Minions dig out a Nokia 8110 banana phone and call up Darth Vader... https://t.co/hbype4tso0
• Fri, 22:33: https://t.co/Ps8XauWDlj https://t.co/zpm0WjvyzY

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  #surfaceduo, #unity2020, twitter

• September 11th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Thu, 14:53: A fantastic piece from The New Yorker on Susanna Clarke and how serious illness kept her from writing (and bonus Colin Greenland!). And now we get a new novel. https://t.co/9M4T22hhEa
• Thu, 15:01: ... And God said to the man, "I sent you a lifeboat, a helicopter, and a tiki bar full of priests..." https://t.co/7syn8VVxym
• Thu, 15:42: Drilling down into the HoloLens 2 HPU. It's a very interesting piece of silicon, optimised to handle complex compute that would normally be off-board with lots of latency.
• Thu, 18:10: RT @WindowsDocs: Unboxing complete. Now to get writing apps for the #SurfaceDuo! https://t.co/7lbAlgHkxc https://t.co/BAGkZriERs
• Thu, 19:46: So someone synced up landing at Berlin Tegel in real life with in Microsoft Flight Simulator: https://t.co/oFlpvYC5vh
• Thu, 20:24: Have I got @marypcbuk's "new" Lumia 1520 onto Windows 10 Mobile from Phone 8.1? 🤞
• Thu, 20:24: RT @jgownder: Brilliant and terrifying https://t.co/3BGbCrVrSp
• Thu, 21:21: So you can import existing GIFs into Expressive Pixels and turn them into LED animations. I tried it out with a simple one I'd made of a bird on my desk... https://t.co/wKpUudl6vQ
• Fri, 08:14: RT @doctorow: I have a favor to ask of you. I don't often ask readers for stuff, but this is maybe the most important ask of my career. It'…
• Fri, 11:33: RT @InfoWorld: . @Microsoft's @Azure gets a new infrastructure as #code language that can help deploy and manage complex architectures -- b…

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  #code, #surfaceduo, twitter

• September 10th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Wed, 12:23: RT @Cloudflare: Unimog - Cloudflare’s edge load balancer. https://t.co/gZmrI72LHN
• Wed, 12:33: Really impressive work from @cloudflare on its Unimog layer 4 load balancer; and a blog post that is a really good example of how to write a technical explainer that is covering some pretty esoteric topics... https://t.co/2uDonnUY8E
• Wed, 12:39: RT @tomwarren: Here's the inside story on how Microsoft built its folding Android phone. From the Surface Mini to Surface Duo and lots of p…
• Wed, 14:08: Xbox Series X and S pricing and release. https://t.co/2v7C9TJNDe
• Wed, 17:20: Apocalyptic. https://t.co/Da6iqBuuUW
• Wed, 17:25: So far not disappointing. https://t.co/Zl03F0xrMq
• Wed, 18:07: Currywurst crisps. So good.
• Wed, 19:36: I think I have managed to break Alexa's skills UI by having two Amazon accounts, one on .com and one on .co.uk. Amazpn has sensibly linked them, but is now forcing the US Alexa UI so while I can get UK skills by voice I can't manage them in the app.
• Wed, 20:21: RT @SwiftOnSecurity: .@Yubico will supply unphishable login security keys to human rights organizations in several categories. This is the…
• Wed, 20:23: Ah, Fox Fight Club has reconvened after a few weeks off.

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• September 9th, 2020, 12:00 pm

My tweets

• Tue, 13:09: Nice to see that @fsoldigital have reworked their classic electronic ambience Cascade (from the Lifeforms album) into a new album-length piece. Excellent, as always. https://t.co/aCboZ2e45z
• Tue, 14:07: My Sparklet arrived, so time to explore Expressive Pixels... https://t.co/teFbqHvJcU
• Tue, 14:14: Interesting consolidation in the devops space: Progress is buying Chef. https://t.co/1bsZW3oOMm
• Tue, 14:33: In more @fsoldigital discoveries, there's a new Amorphous Androgynous "A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble" compilation, inspired by a track from an upcoming album, "We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal". Set the controls for the heart of the chakra. https://t.co/wppBVrmvXs
• Tue, 14:42: Microsoft filling in the gaps in its @surface portfolio. A sensible move. https://t.co/YINlUtm5jf
• Tue, 14:48: No sign of the earlier 3.9 #UKearthquake here; but then we get enough trains going pass that I probably wouldn;t have noticed it anyway!
• Tue, 14:48: RT @windowscentral: The Lumia 1020 lives... #XboxSeriesS https://t.co/w2VhT2YyP2
• Tue, 14:49: RT @CloudBees: This Just In! More than 17,000 people have registered to attend #DevOpsWorld  (and counting!) The event is in TWO WEEKS! You…
• Tue, 15:17: Over at @infoworld I take a deep dive into Microsoft's new Bicep infrastructure-as code language for Azure, and how treating ARM s a target for DSLs could change the way we work with Azure virtual infrastructures. Also no apologies for the headline. https://t.co/37R9umQ3FH
• Tue, 15:22: The @nextnotch bracelet I won through @VirginRed arrived, along with the "Six Months Indoors" notch I had made... Lockdown shielding as cheevo! https://t.co/T6aYa5d383

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  #devopsworld, #passwordless, #ukearthquake, #xboxseriess, twitter