The Digital Pig

Lately I’ve been consumed with the desire to automate certain things in my home. To be honest it started when I saw the movie “Electric Dreams” when I was a

In numerical order Here’s a 1-liner for the occasion (assumes .jpg extension):

https://aka.ms/mlcheatsheet

If you want to use a view partial in the Slim Micro-framework, it’s very easy though may not seem obvious to start with. The way I solve this is 2-fold:

When designing new software from scratch, it’s easy to get drawn into the detail of a single piece, especially if you’re a developer by trade. Consideration has to be given

To be able to communicate vocally with Cortana, she needs to understand what we’re saying. In our situation that involves us using a service called LUIS (luis.ai), which is described

If setting up a new instance of Mosquitto and the instructions (or someone) tells you to add an ACL file, do yourself a favor and ignore them…at least initially. I

I saw a question by someone on some site that was asking about running a PHP CLI script until the user pressed a key and then quitting (finishing up, not

I know this has been asked a million times, and there are a million instances of this online, but this is my blog…so this is my version. This was a