Microsoft
Stop quoting Steve Ballmer
Not "Developers Developers Developers", that one is great. The cancer one.
Open Source
.NET
Don't ask Microsoft to do it all
A five-million-line enterprise app asked Microsoft for a longer .NET support window. The Java world answered that question a decade ago.
.NET
I'm running for the .NET Foundation Board
I am on the ballot for the 2026 .NET Foundation Board election. Why I am running, what the Foundation is recruiting for this cycle, and what I would bring: partnerships across the Microsoft and open source line, nonprofit governance, and a long record in the .NET and WSL communities.
Linux
Getting Started Creating a Linux Desktop App in Visual Studio using Avalonia and WSL
Build cross-platform GUI apps for WIndows and Linux using C# and .NET using Avalonia in Visual Studio.
Open Source
The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress
The vague complaints of the Copilot plaintiffs are nothing compared to the damage to free software and human progress if they won.
Linux
Microsoft's CBL-Delridge is 404, long live CBL-Mariner
Microsoft is increasingly standardizing on its in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution. Is this Microsoft Linux?
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Building custom WSL distro images with Podman
Use Podman on Windows to build custom WSL distro images.
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Running a massively scalable CUDA-accelerated AI/ML lab on WSL 2 with Determined
Getting a scalable AI/ML model training environment set up and running on WSL 2, with Docker Desktop and CUDA GPU compute.
Windows
Creating A Lightweight Windows Container Dev Environment without Docker Desktop
Working with Windows Containers without Docker Desktop from PowerShell.
Linux
Installing Retro Home on the Raspberry Pi 400
Let's celebrate New Years and install Retro Home on a Raspberry Pi 400 and play some games.
Open Source
Bill Gates was right
Gates' 'Open Letter to Hobbyists' wasn't a declaration of war against open source. It is a key foundation of it.
Linux
Install openSUSE Tumbleweed on WSL
How to install the official openSUSE Tumbleweed images for WSL directly from the Open Build Service to enjoy this rolling distribution on Windows.