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matduggan.com

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:16:49 +0000

I think about this sometimes when I'm writing in Vim at midnight, just me and a blinking cursor and a plain text file that will still be readable when I'm dead. No filesystem-within-a-filesystem. No sector allocation tables. No 5,039-page specification. Just words, a few hash marks, and never having to think about it again.

Tags: #markdown #microsoft #word #writing

rolflobker/recall-for-linux: Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux!

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:09:20 +0000

Are you forced to work with Linux? Do you miss the convenience of Microsoft spying on you and keeping track of everything? Fear not! This amazing tool will bring back all those great Windows Recall features that you have been missing:

Tags: #MSFT #linux #microsoft #recall

Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC - Microsoft Open Source Blog

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:25:50 +0000

Tags: #6502 #MSFT #basic #microsoft

WebAssembly (in flight simulator)

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:20:07 +0000

In order to provide both security and portability, it was decided to move away from add-ons distributed as DLLs in favour of add-ons distributed as WebAssembly modules.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #microsoft #webassembly

Why Microsoft Word must Die - Charlie's Diary

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:55:49 +0000

I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, not dissimilar ...

Tags: #imported:pinboard #microsoft #software #word

ClippyJS - Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:56:36 +0000

Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia. Our research shows that people love two things: failed Microsoft technologies and obscure Javascript libraries. Naturally, we decided to combine the two.

Tags: #clippy #history #humor #imported:pinboard #javascript #microsoft #to:fb #webdev

Yahoo Struggles to Find Way Out of Microsoft Web-Search Deal - WSJ.com

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:56:02 +0000

Yahoo Inc. has been quietly trying to find a way out of its struggling Web-search partnership with Microsoft Corp., a person familiar the situation said, but has so far failed in that effort.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #microsoft #search #to:fb #yahoo

Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space? | ZDNet

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:40:59 +0000

Here’s the tl;dr version. The MacBook Air 128 gives you 77.3 percent of the advertised storage space for user data. The Surface Pro 128 gives you 75.2 percent of its advertised capacity for storing data. And with one minor tweak that doesn’t affect the system’s capabilities in any way, you can increase the amount of data storage space on the Surface Pro to 81.8% of the advertised capacity.

Tags: #apple #hardware #imported:pinboard #microsoft #surface

Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space? | ZDNet

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:40:59 +0000

Tags: #apple #hardware #microsoft #surface

Part 6: Create a blog reader (Windows Store apps using JavaScript and HTML) (Windows)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:33:27 +0000

This tutorial teaches you how to use the Split App Visual Studio template to create a blog reading app.

Tags: #app #imported:pinboard #microsoft #webdev #windows8

FYI: No JIT on Windows 8 for ARM - luajit - FreeLists

Fri, 11 May 2012 02:07:32 +0000

The Internet Explorer process on W8ARM has special privileges and is the only one allowed to run a JIT compiler to speed up JavaScript. No other browser will be able to compete on performance with IE on W8ARM. That sure simplifies keeping up with the competition ... ;-)

Tags: #MSFT #browsers #imported:pinboard #jit #microsoft #windows

How To Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) - Scott Hanselman

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:17:35 +0000

Cool. If you have Windows 7 now then you can "boot to a virtual hard disk (VHD)" and get all the loveliness of Windows 8 running on hardware without any risk to your hard drive. Don't like it? Delete the VHD and update your boot record.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #microsoft #vhd #windows #windows8

Microsoft Borrows Palm's Advertising for Windows Phone 7 Series

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:30:09 +0000

"Did you see those great ads pushed out the other day from Palm? It looks like Microsoft, who forgot to borrow copy & paste or multi-tasking, has the same ad team or at least the same great idea. Now it’s time for Palm to creatively borrow a few elements from the Microsoft ad. How about adding a few different demographics and have the people in the ads carrying webOS phones."

Tags: #advertising #microsoft #mobile #palm

Daring Fireball Linked List: Kara Swisher on Microsoft's Mobile Dilemma

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:10:34 +0000

Oh god, I hope MSFT never buys Palm. I'd be in the market for an Android phone, then. "RIM seems like a natural fit, in terms of its customer base and the whole look and feel of BlackBerry software. Palm would be the bolder play."

Tags: #microsoft #mobile #palm

Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:30:28 +0000

"I just returned from the Microsoft campus (well, I stopped for a panini), where students from Carnegie Mellon University are showing off their awesome project, a version of D&D that runs on the Surface. Now, before you start rolling your eyes, just recognize that this isn’t just a holy grail for tabletop gaming nerds. I mean, it’s that too, but really it’s a proof of concept that shows how fun and intuitive something like this can be, and how accessible a team can make it. I honestly think that if they had these things scattered around like Golden Tee cabinets, they’d get a huge following. "

Tags: #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #gaming #microsoft #rpg #surface