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Yes. There are multiple UI projects that build on the WinUI 3 components in the Win App SDK. There's the first party MAUI which is an updated version of Xamarin Forms. The two best…

Someone has read the impossible game sections of Iain Banks’ Walking On Glass…

There's a fair bit of detail in the recently released Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual, one of a series of in-universe documents from various Anderson shows.

I had a third-party shadow ROM kit for a BBC Micro in 1984; it let me back-up and load add-on ROMs into its memory and switch between them quickly.

It and others regularly go pat my home. It’s a great view!

Two things for me. An electromagnetics finite element analysis package that was then used to design the actuators for the landing gear for the 737NG-series; where millions of peopl…

I recently put Ubuntu one one. A nice little device!

Based on the classic book of computing history “Fire in the Valley”. A recommended read for anyone interested in the history of our industry.

Ringway 2 would have been right behind my home. Instead I have an electric railway and a lot of trees…

Amusing to see that the last line of the piece refers to "sci-fi on speed", as amphetamines were the drug of choice for the spiritual forefather of the movement, Philip K Dick...

Reminds me of my first car, a Mini Clubman estate with the fake woody panels on the side. The only thing you needed to know was that it had been re-engined with a hill-climb tuned …

It is a snakerboard

They do have their own teams, but the governing bodies don't let them play internationally.

I used to go blackberrying on the common above the cliffs at Portlet with my grandfather’s cabbage stalk cane to hold back the thorns…

Vernor is a proponent of ubiquitous sensors as an alternative or as an adjunct to AI; the example he likes to use is what he calls the "localizer", a simple sensor that can detect …

See Azure Private Edge Zones, part of the full product. Azure is offering both network-provided and private 5G as options in the same service.

Catching up with Azure, I see. Edge Zones has been available since May. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/private-multi-ac...

An example of inner source becoming open source; YARP began as a way to unify multiple internal .NET reverse proxy projects. Once mature and used internally it was opened up to the…

Exactly; with a credit card paid off monthly by direct debit and an interest paying current account, you're earning interest on your cash and not paying any on your purchases. What…

It’s not quite as bad as presented here; yes Microsoft is in the process of deprecating kernel mode drivers as part of its current security push, however it’s following Linux and i…

Desktop peek is now a three finger swipe down and up on your trackpad.

To be fair to the architects of the Millennium Bridge, the structural engineers used a vehicle bridge model, not one for pedestrians.

Back in the mid-90s I was running tech at UKOL in Shepton Mallet; in a converted brewery which we shared with Perihelion Software, which was the team that wrote Helios. They were a…