I'll be hosting a number of weekly-to-monthly "Open Chats", open for anyone in the community can join, for any reason, including: * Drop by and say hi! * Anything open source. * Code & Cloud chat. Where? Microsoft Open Source Discord (aka.ms/open-source-discord) in general-stage. When? I'

I notice as many folks joined the Twitter diaspora they started sharing their interests, make an #introduction post somewhere like Mastodon, a Thread that could be discovered via search, etc. I'd often include many in my bios, compressed in the form of emoji. Anyway, here are some of

Here is my markdown editor wishlist. PC & Mobile I need an editor that works well across PC and mobile and mobile. So far Ulysses and iA Writer do a good job of this, despite the fact I have to stay in the Apple ecosystem for Ulysses. and I'

How long does it take to get a new domain fully indexed in Google these days? Let's find out! I registered this domain, aaronw.dev, way back on June 10th, 2020. I was already writing elsewhere on aaronmsft.com, and I never did anything with it until I

Join my Subs--Superqueue, Blog In Your Inbox, Mailing List... actually, nevermind. It seems like every other person wants to create a newsletter these days. Something that was a blog first, and potentially enable notifications via email would more likely be a newsletter first these days. Paid newsletters proliferate. I do

PSA: Passkeys are magic. You should try them. I've been using them in 1Password as my cross-platform solution for passkeys. They did an excellent job of communicating their value early on. Apple began to support them with iOS 16 which helped them gain traction. On the server-side, I&

Last week I attended two major conferences this month. KubeCon North America and GitHub Universe. I wasn't able to make them in person in Chicago and San Francisco respectively, and would have had to choose nonetheless, so I followed both online. Both were positively packed with excellent content

If you haven't considered the power of social audio, go and listen to Social Audio as a Vector For Engineering Wisdom by Bryan Cantrill, who also happens to be one of my very favorite speakers. We borrowed from Oxide and Friends when we started our own live show,

A minor complaint... A major reason I have gone down the rabbit hole with Ghost is that it integrates with both Ulysses and iA Writer. Ulysses integrates with Wordpress, Ghost, Medium, and Micro.blog. Unfortunately, one of the small issues I have is regarding line-breaks. These lines Should be Separated

Here is a content collection for Ghost that enables two collections of content on a single site. The first, default collection, is at /posts/, and we exclude any that are tagged with internal tags that are prefixed with hash- by default. We exclude #home, as well as #private for when