MS Dev Show

We talk with Pamela Cortez about her IoT Deep Dive series. The shady iPhone app underground. Fonts are in color now. And CSS is now witchcraft.

 

News

• The State of CSS
• Pure CSS Still Life - Lemons and Water
• This illicit iPhone app store has been hiding in plain sight
• DNS Servers That Offer Privacy and Filtering
• Colored Fonts!
• More Colored Fonts!
• Apple has a clever plan to fight off patent trolls
• PowerShell can now install Xbox One games

Pamela Cortez

Pamela is a Senior PM on the Azure IoT Team at Microsoft.

• @hello_techie
• GitHub

 

• IoT Show
• IoT Show Deep Dive

Dev Tip of the Week

• Totally awesome, well-stretched svg backgrounds, free for download.

We talk with Adam Barr about lessons he has learned throughout his career. Microsoft says stop using IE. Run Windows 95 in an Electron App… for reasons.

 

News

• Microsoft security chief: IE is not a browser, so stop using it as your default
• The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser
• Roadmap to becoming a Web Developer in 2019
• Run Windows 95 as an app (and yes, it runs Doom)
• US iPhone users spent, on average, $79 on apps last year, up 36% from 2017

Adam Barr

• @adamdavidbarr
• The Problem with Software
• Amazon
• Author Page

We talk with Joe Zack from the Coding Blocks podcast about JAMStack. 10 rules for a better conference name badge. How many keywords can you fit into a C# expression. And Google throws up it's arms in Louisville and cancels their fiber internet plans there.  

 

News

• Ten Rules for a Better Conference Name Badge
• Is China’s corruption-busting AI system ‘Zero Trust’ being turned off for being too efficient?
• Navigation Should Be Boring
• I hate Numeronyms
• Completers in Azure PowerShell
• 230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019
• How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?
• Google withdraws fiber from Louisville
• Google Fiber announces plan to fix exposed fiber lines in the Highlands
• A construction technique known as 'shallow trenching' allows the tech firm to lay a huge amount of fiber in a single day, speeding its rollout in key cities.

• Joe Zack
• @thejoezack
• joezack.com
• CodingBlocks.net

 

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• JAMstack.org
• Best practices
• JAMstack radio
• The JAMstack Origin Story
• JAMstack e-commerce with Siteleaf & Snipcart
• The Twelve Factor App
• staticgen.com
• netlify.com
• New to JAMstack? How to make a site from A to Z
• algolia.com
• qit.cloud
• Headless CMS

This week we talk about hacking your car using the OBD2 connector. We talk audio and OLED. Apple revokes Facebook and Google certificates. Google is trying to trick us. And modern forecasts are accurate - change my mind.

 

News

• Apple Bans Distribution of Facebook’s Internal Apps
• Localized Messaging is Important
• The Norwegian Consumer Council has filed a complaint against Google. Google is accused of using deceptive design and misleading information, which results in users accepting to be constantly tracked
• Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
• Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate

 

Truck Hacking

 

• Forscan
• forscan.org
• FORScan FAQ
• FORScan Codes for 2017-2019 Ford Super Duty
• Jason: F-350 Lariat Diesel
• Fog Lights with High Beam LED and some HALOGEN
• Double Horn Honk Disable
• Show Temps on Gauges
• Remove Sirius from Sync
• Disable all Seat Belt Chimes
• Secure Idle (Police Mode)
• Add DPF Filter % to screen
• Carl: F-250 XLT Gas
• Fog Lights with High Beam LED and some HALOGEN
• Remember Fog Lights and High Beams on Startup
• Enter NAV Destination and viewing texts while vehicle is in motion
• Disable Door Lock Horn Honk
• Future: Remove Sirius from Sync
• Torque Pro 2
• Torque Pro (OBD 2 & Car)

 

Jason's Home Theater

 

• klipsch.com
• LG 65" 4k OLED TV
• Test video: LG 4K DEMO HDR 2018 (60FPS) OLED PERPECT BLACK

 

Reclaiming audio gear for Office PC

 

• JBL 160SISAT Speakers
• 2.6 pounds each speaker!
• Grace Digital GDI-BTAR513 100 Watt Digital Integrated Stereo Amplifier with Built-In AptX Bluetooth Wireless Stereo Receiver

Carl and I talk about developer gear at CES 2019. We also talk about travel gear, including the best noise cancelling headphones. Twitter moves 300 petabytes to the cloud. And Jason analyzes the Backblaze data so that you know which drive to buy.  

 

News

• Windows Command-Line: Unicode and UTF-8 Output Text Buffer
• Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
• Twitter moves 300 Petabytes of data to the cloud
• The ‘Computer’ Mouse is a mouse that is also a fully functional computer
• Panos Panay reacts quickly to coach throwing a Surface during a game.
• WinForms on the web -- brought to you by web assembly
• Microsoft Office is finally available on Apple's Mac App Store

 

 

Travel Tech Update

• Noise cancelling headphones
• Sony
• XM2
• XM3
• Surface
• Bose
• Power brick success
• Powerhouse2  -- WHAAAAAAT????!!?!?!?!?!!?!!!!???!

 

CES

• CES Laptops
• 17" screens
• NVIDIA 2060/2080 Graphics
• Jason's Pick
• Jason's Runner-Up
• Beastly Laptop!
• Nreal Light Glasses
• iTunes and AirPlay everywhere
• Why do we never see this backported?
• The Talk about 5G -- no devices though
• Foldable Phones
• Xiaomi

We talk about new years resolutions, DPI, console styling, apps stealing your data, autonomous driving, USB-C, and much much more.

 

News

• In recent builds of Windows 10, Task Manager's "Details" view includes an optional "DPI Awareness" column to help you understand and identify DPI-related issues, esp. with legacy apps.

Howto See DPI Awareness of Running Apps in Task Manager in Windows 10

• Last episode we talked about sites with awesome consoles. Check out this article to up your web console skills
• If you want to see the (many) commands you can run in a web browser console, type this into the console: console.dir(console)
• Did anyone else know you could select multiple apps like this on iOS?
• City of Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
• Come Get Your Free NSA Reverse Engineering Tool!
• RSA Conference Session (Mar 5, 2019)
• New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering

 

App of the Week

• How to Remove an Image's Background 100% automatically – in 5 seconds – without a single click

We talk with Bettina Heim about quantum computing and Q#. Fun with browser console messages. And Google patented an idea from an interview, but they've probably canceled the product already.  

News

• I love little easter eggs hidden in console messages, so I made a website about them
• console.love
• Company Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
• How QR Codes Work
• killedbygoogle.com
• Microsoft now lets you log into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live without a password
• Microsoft Surface Studio 2 review: form meets function
• Edge using Chromium

We talk with Chris Lauren about ML.NET. Sabotaging machine learning algorithms.  Generating a website from a wireframe. And the only way to win is to not play.

News

• When AI Misjudgment Is Not an Accident -- Intentional bias is another way artificial intelligence could hurt us
• How machine learning systems sometimes suprise us
• How to match "A B C" where A+B=C in RegEx: The Beast Reborn
• Wow! This AI Creates a Website just by looking at the Wireframe

Chris Lauren

• @clauren42

 

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• Microsoft AI Lab
• ML.NET on GitHub
• Nimbus
• Nimbus on GitHub
• Pandas
• Pandas on GitHub
• SciKit
• ML.NET Samples on Github
• ML.NET Tutorials
• ONNX

Azure Pick of the Week

• Azure portal and the new account manager. Making it easy to switch between accounts in the portal

 

Website of the Week

• Absolutely lovely free wallpapers.

 

Dev Tip of the Week

• Helpful Hotkeys - A collection of some of my favorite lesser known keyboard shortcuts
• Windows 10 now has a BUILT-IN Clipboard Manager. Just press WIN+V instead of CTRL+V. Syncs across devices optionally as well.

We talk with Mark Fussell about Service Fabric and Service Fabric Mesh. Robots have replace lawyers and GitHub contributors. And you can finally pay someone to review your website while they're drunk.

 
News

• theuserisdrunk.com
• Human competitive patches in automatic program repair with repairnator
  • A bot has been finding bugs and submitting patches for them, successfully masquerading as a human
  • Researchers secretly deployed a bot that submitted bug fixing pull requests
• AI vs. Lawyers the Ultimate Showdown
  • 20 top lawyers were beaten by legal AI. Here are their surprising responses
• Pull request successfully merged. Starting build...

Mark Fussell

• @mfussell
• @servicefabric
• LinkedIn
• Blog
• GitHub

• Service Fabric
• Service Fabric for Windows Service
• Cluster creation
• Service Fabric Mesh
  • Quick start
• What is ARM?
• Envoy
• Service Fabric IoT backend example
  • GitHub
• Build 2018 - BRK2508 Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich

Dev Tip of the Week

• In Latest version of Windows 10 - Win + CTRL + C wasn't working
• In Windows Settings search for color filters to enable also control Greyscale and Colorblind friendly filters

We finally sit down with Neeraj Joshi to talk about the Ignite 2018 announcements including Ultra SSDs, digital twins, Azure Sphere, and more. Windows Kernel internals. And GitHub actions.   News

• Introducing the Windows Internals Series: One Windows Kernel
  • One Windows Kernel
• Introducing GitHub Actions
  • GitHub Actions

Neeraj Joshi

Neeraj is a random awesome dude at Microsoft!

Check out Neeraj at [email protected] -- the original social network

Ignite 2018

Check out the Ignite 2018 News Guide for more tech topics.

• Data
  • Azure Data Box
    • Edge
    • Heavy - 1 petabyte of storage capacity
    • Gateway - IoT Edge integrated
  • SQL Server 2019
    • built-in Spark and Hadoop distributed file system
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • CosmosDB
    • Multi-master
    • Cassandra API
    • Reserved Capacity
  • SQL Managed instance
• IoT
  • Digital twins public preview
  • Edge has public module marketplace
  • Azure Sphere dev kits available
• Azure & Windows
  • Windows Server 2019 GA Oct
  • Ultra SSD
    • Up to 64TB size
    • Up to 160k IOPs
  • Premium files (SSD)
  • Front Door Service
    • Understands http and can help with routing
  • ExpressRoute Direct
    • 100gbps
  • Azure Blueprints
    • Managing and assigning deployment templates?
    • Versioning
    • Part of Azure Governance
  • Functions V2
  • Quantum to add chemical simulation
  • Windows Virtual Desktop
  • Microsoft Learn
• Azure Stack
  • Kubernetes on Stack
• Security
  • Going Password free
• Other
  • Stream mobile app with offline viewing
  • OneDrive "Files on demand" for Mac

Dev Tip of the Week

From Steve Smith @ardalis on Twitter

Add sound effects to Visual Studio Build fail and success from the Sound Control Panel. Also Breakpoint Hit and Build Canceled!