I grew up during one of the biggest technological upheavals in the history of humanity. Within the space of a few years the entire way we as humans interact with our world has shifted dramatically. In middle school I got my first phone: a Nokia brick with Snake 2. By…

And how we might help it succeed. — Ok look, if we’re being honest, IoT is stuck. Sure sure there’s these cool innovations that have popped up here and there in the consumer market. Azure IoT (where I work) recently partnered with Keurig on the K-Supreme Plus® SMART Single Serve Coffee Maker. It’s a fantastic coffee maker. I have a bunch of Kasa Smart Bulbs. My little…

If we do not confront the direction Smart Cities are heading in, they will benefit the rich and powerful, destroy communities, and exacerbate the climate emergency. Hi, here’s why you should trust me. I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft’s Azure IoT (Internet of Things) group. We are a group focused on enabling IoT solutions through PaaS…

Have you ever seen a slick rendering of a new apartment building or masterplanned community? Curvy lines, futuristic aesthetics, everything is pristine… They’re shit. They’re absolute shit and you shouldn’t like them. No one should. Why? Because don’t judge a book by it’s cover is an age old saying. And…

This is a simple premise. You have a modern problem: we build as a form of consumption. From strip malls to new houses, everything is built under the pretext of commoditized sales, which, when distilled, manifest much of Modern Architecture (Architecture of the 21st Century) as a tool for consumption…

5 Different Ways You Can Make Money As A Developer While You Sleep Link. TL;DR: This is for Web Developers Either be a content creator doing YouTube Videos / Livestream or a front end webdev selling sh*t on Codecanyon, Canva Creators, or some other place to sell essentially website templates you create. Review: 5/10 This does thankfully avoid the trope of “become a Medium writer and start a YouTube channel and…

So you want to find your style and upgrade your wardrobe. Where do you start? Follow this guide. — 1. Make sure you really know what you look like. I am a software engineer. I have no professional need to dress well or look good. No one in my immediate circles and no interview really cares if I have good style or bad style, if I look put together or not. This is a blessing and a curse, and…

How to realistically navigate the good and the bad of the modern Open Source terrain — I read an article recently titled “Why I Dislike Open Source”, laying out arguments about in essence why Open Source Software (OSS) is dumb and bad. Like most opinions, there’s a bit of truth and a bit of emotion mixed together and served up as facts. …

You’ll be a better TypeScript developer for it. — We’ve all thrown "any” over a TypeScript error before. You’re working on a piece of code, hacking away on the next great electron app, and you quickly want to add a function to handle user input. So you define your variables as the any type and bang the whole thing out. …