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DeckSurf, my open-source SDK that covers the reverse-engineered protocol for interacting with Stream Deck devices, is now more-or-less complete in terms of devices it can identity and run against.

If you are a software engineer, product manager, data scientist, or in any other role that deals with technology and you are not using Large Language Models, you are missing out on some key productivity boosters. Consider this anecdata, but what I managed to accomplish with my podcast website, arguably a relatively simple project, is a bellwether for things to come across the industry.

I am always on the lookout for ways to make my life easier with the help of computers, and one of the more recent things that I started using is really helping me in this domain - the @vision extension for GitHub Copilot.

A little experiment in using GitHub Copilot REST APIs inside GitHub Actions to avoid manually parsing text bodies.

What’s a start to the year without some changes. Well, at least for me and my family the change meant a switch of teams and organizations within Microsoft.

Recently, I’ve been running a lot of GitHub Actions. Primarily because I automated some data collection for my Halo Infinite projects, and as part of that I get a lot of workflow logs. I wanted to clean them up.

The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we’ve known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we’ve seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.

How to find that extremely convoluted command you typed in three months ago that you can’t find in your PowerShell history.

2024 is coming to an end, and I wanted to share an experience that my wife and I classified as one of the most memorable from the past year - troll spotting, right here, in the Pacific Northwest.

How to look inside the protocol workings of the Stream Deck Plus, the flexible and versatile button box that can do almost anything.

PowerToys 0.87.1 dropped today, and with it (well, technically one point release before), a new PowerToys Awake dropped as well.

Experian, the multinational consumer credit reporting and data aggregator company, is planning to sell off more of your data to third-parties starting February 5, 2025.

An outline of how you can extract icons from Windows binaries and dump them into a local folder.

I discovered that you can get anyone’s true email address (Google Account) if they are hosting their email on Google Workspaces from their alias, even if the alias is not on the same domain.

The other day one of my friend shared an interesting letter they received, that I thought I’d cover on this blog. It all started with them peeking at their USPS Informed Delivery digest to see that there was a letter headed to them postmarked with an automated Canada Post label.