Matt Lacey - Software Developer

  Enshittifcation, as a term popularized by Cory Doctrow , has for many become a catch-all term for things generally getting worse. I'v...

No, this isn't a religious post. I was listening to an interview regarding marketing challenges for big brands trying to reinvent themse...

I was recently  previously contributing to a project when something broke on the CI builds due to an issue with how a referenced library was...

And the answer is...because entire teams will no longer use the extensions. Because its not cute, it's distracting. Because it's not...

When you sponsor someone via GitHub Sponsors , there's an option to make your sponsorship public (so everyone can see it) or private (so...

Windows Template Studio is a Visual Studio extension that helps developers scaffold Windows applications.  I have a long, complicated relat...

Open source is like politics. But, probably not in the way you're thinking. Not politics in a negative sense as if it's all about po...

One day into trying to fix an issue I wondered if I was using my time wisely. Two days after that, and when I'd finally found the soluti...

 The following is based on a presentation I gave on the September 2020 WinUI community call . Here are my tips Don't start with a Pull R...

With everything going on in the world, I thought it would be worth sharing a positive story about working on open-source projects and a Utop...

It’s been a while since I’ve heard the idea that “ making {some software} open source won’t cost {company} anything,” but I did today. ...

Visual Studio has great tooling for navigating within code when it is in the same (programming) language. However, if your solution contain...

This Before has become this After Yes, ownership of the repository has transferred to me. Background A little under two years...

Just make the repository public (assuming it contains no Publicly Identifiable Information or embedded secrets.) If it does, you should rem...