After commuting home from the office I carefully park, step out of the car, grab the charging cable looped around the Tesla Wall Connector, press the button on the cable, and the car’s charge port door opens, letting me quickly plug in the car. I wake up in the morning with the confidence that I can go anywhere I need to: work, weekend errands,...

At Microsoft today we have almost 25,000 engineers participating in our official GitHub organizations for open source, a great number of them contributing to open source communities throughout GitHub. It's been quite a ride: that's 10X the engineers we were working with when I posted in 2015 about our experience scaling from 20 to 2,000 engineers...

WiFi that just works with multiple mounted access points. Symmetric 1000 Mbps symmetric gigabit Internet. Centrally managed enterprise network gear. Pulling new CAT6 while dealing with old CAT3 in a condo. This is my story, long overdue, about some of the experiences, challenges, and information about the connectivity tech I enjoyed at home. I...

In this post I'm going to walk through using Visual Studio Team Services Package Management as a private npm registry for scoped npm packages using a custom deployment script for Azure App Service. Many Node.js developers are probably familiar with npm private feeds but may not have used them yet in the Microsoft Cloud + Node.js stack. I wanted...

mail2bug is a service that allows you to create a bug from an e-mail thread simply by adding a specific recipient to the mail thread. It also keeps the bug up-to-date with information from the mail thread by adding any subsequent replies on the thread as comments to the bug. The mail2bug README has useful information if you want to learn more. ...

On the Microsoft Azure team our GitHub presence today is operating at more than an order of magnitude from where we were when we started in 2011. We have grown from 20 members of our GitHub organization to over 2,000 engineers participating from across many parts of Microsoft. We also manage several organizations, including one dedicated for samples....