A story about USB floppy drives (2004)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

67 points by airhangerf15 1 year ago | 36 comments

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

185 points by mellonaut 2 years ago | 66 comments

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)(overengineer.dev)

164 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 127 comments

Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

96 points by zinekeller 1 year ago | 32 comments

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

281 points by montalbano 10 months ago | 107 comments

What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

289 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 150 comments

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

338 points by soheilpro 1 month ago | 165 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

Why choose async/await over threads?(notgull.net)

352 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 309 comments

Blog post by John Nunley explaining why Rust developers might choose async/await over OS threads for concurrency.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

One Month Without AI(blog.bustikiller.com)

148 points by saibotk 1 month ago | 153 comments

Personal blog post about a developer spending a month without AI tools at work, reflecting on how AI use made them lazier and a worse developer.

Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

399 points by lappa 1 year ago | 136 comments

Microsoft AI Platform Blog post announcing Phi-4, a small language model specializing in complex reasoning.