A practical guide to reformat Surface Laptop ARM devices using Microsoft's official recovery USB process from another Windows machine.

What is ytpi Downloader? ytpi Downloader is a lightweight web application designed to automate the process of downloading YouTube videos and playlists directly to your home server or Raspberry Pi....

As a guitarist, I’m always looking for ways to improve my instrument’s performance and feel. When I decided to upgrade the stock tremolo system on my PRS CE24, I knew I wanted something that would ...

Test Azure Functions locally with Azure Active Directory

This week marks four years that I have been working at Microsoft. It’s been an incredibly fun & humbling journey so far! In thinking about the past four years...

Learn how to set up Azure service principal authentication environment variables for use with Cloud Custodian control plane.

As part of our internal hack week a few months back, I built out an extension for Azure Functions that lets you connect directly to an Azure Data Lake Store. This extension can be used as an input ...

Building Serverless Applications on Azure

So I decided to start upgrading all my Azure Web Apps and associated NuGet packages to to .NET Core 1.1. The process was very simple and everything worked perfectly locally. Naturally, I pushed my...

Recently while working on a partner project, it was required that we build an Azure Function that not only outputs to an Azure Storage Queue, but also archives that same message in Azure Storage. W...