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Learn how Microsoft Entra ID’s flexible Federated Identity Credentials eliminate the need for secrets when connecting services across platforms. This practical guide shows you how to securely authenticate GitHub Actions workflows to Azure resources without storing credentials.

Tired of spending hours manually creating podcast transcripts? Learn how I built a local AI solution that transforms messy, raw audio transcriptions into clean, readable content for my podcast, The Work Item - cutting my production time from many hours to just an hour and a few minutes.

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.