An interesting learning with SignGemma and the deaf community Reading time ~3 minutes

Google announced a new tool called SignGemma which they describe as “our most capable model for translating sign language into spoken text” I absent mindedly shared this in the GR Slack group I hang out in and a friend encouraged me to dig a little deeper into learning about how......

Getting the related work items for an Azure Pipeline run in a monorepo Reading time ~7 minutes

The problem.. I absolutely love this little ‘related work items’ feature in Azure DevOps pipelines: You can click on it and quickly get a view of the work items associated with that pipeline: This information is beneficial in two ways: It is useful information for the person running a deployment......

The quest for an ergonomic keyboard - Part 1 Reading time ~2 minutes

If you didn’t read my previous blog post I’m hunting for a good method for keeping my tech experiments going from my living room lazy boy. One of the key components to that is having a bluetooth ergonomic keyboard Why Bluetooth? If I’m going to be popping up a little......

Blogging from Android Reading time ~1 minute

I love to write blog posts and tinker with technology. I haven’t been able to do this for awhile for several reasons: I have two autistic boys that require constant attention when they are awake I have severe pain in my hands that prevents me from typing on laptop keyboards......

ThingWorx local development environment with Docker - Part 1 Reading time ~3 minutes

ThingWorx is a platform for developing “Industrial IoT solutions”. They’ve got a lot of interesting documentation on various setup guides but I wanted to document how to get one up and running locally in a few minutes for the express purposes of learning and experimentation. A local setup doesn’t usually......