Tim Anderson's IT Writing

My attention was caught by the claim that Linux desktop use “surged to 22% on one workday.”

Unfortunately the claim does not stand up to scrutiny. The figures are drawn from

I am evaluating Microsoft’s MAUI (Multi-platform app UI) for use on a cross-platform project. I mainly develop on a Mac with Visual Studio Code.

Setup for MAUI development is well explained here th...

One thing Microsoft is generally good about is keeping old applications running. Applications built with Visual Basic 6.0 (first released in 1998) still run well (in most cases) on the latest Windows.

I maintain an application which is not quite that old, but which was built with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 2.0. It still runs but needs modernizing and tak...

Although I make mistakes when I write, it is an activity that comes easily to me. Sometimes it is difficult: finding the best title, opening paragraph, closing paragraph, how to express a thought with the right nuance; all these things can be hard. If I know what I want to say though, the words come naturally and I have never felt the need for AI assistance.

Neverth...

Vercel has previewed Scriptc on GitHub, a native compiler for TypeScript which is open source under the Apache 2 license.

Scriptc takes TypeScript code as input and outputs a native code executable, along with an embedded JavaScript engine if needed, using the existing QuickJ...