Yes. There are multiple UI projects that build on the WinUI 3 components in the Win App SDK.
There's the first party MAUI which is an updated version of Xamarin Forms. The two best-known third-party implementations are AvaloniaUI and Uno. I prefer Uno, it has more cross-platform targets.
There's a fair bit of detail in the recently released Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual, one of a series of in-universe documents from various Anderson shows.
Two things for me. An electromagnetics finite element analysis package that was then used to design the actuators for the landing gear for the 737NG-series; where millions of people’s lives have depended on that landing gear working. And the coupling filters for the HF amplifiers in the Australian over-the-horizon radar array.
In all these I was only part of the project, but everyone’s work added up.
Amusing to see that the last line of the piece refers to "sci-fi on speed", as amphetamines were the drug of choice for the spiritual forefather of the movement, Philip K Dick...
Reminds me of my first car, a Mini Clubman estate with the fake woody panels on the side. The only thing you needed to know was that it had been re-engined with a hill-climb tuned Cooper S engine. Great on an island with a 40mph speed limit and too many rich folk with Ferraris and the like, as it could out accelerate them anywhere on the island. Sure it wouldn't go faster than 50, but that was fine as it got to that speed almost instantaneously.
Vernor is a proponent of ubiquitous sensors as an alternative or as an adjunct to AI; the example he likes to use is what he calls the "localizer", a simple sensor that can detect its position relative to other nearby sensors of the saem type.
So instead of complex vision systems to find, say, a part in a bin in a warehouse, a locator attached to the item would inform the network that it was "Two items down and three across in bin #243. Oh, and I am upside down", allowing a robot to quickly retrieve the item. It's an interesting approach to what Robert Forward called "artificial stupidity".
An example of inner source becoming open source; YARP began as a way to unify multiple internal .NET reverse proxy projects. Once mature and used internally it was opened up to the rest of the world...
Exactly; with a credit card paid off monthly by direct debit and an interest paying current account, you're earning interest on your cash and not paying any on your purchases. What's not to like getting what's basically free money with a little bit of no-brainer arbitrage?
It’s not quite as bad as presented here; yes Microsoft is in the process of deprecating kernel mode drivers as part of its current security push, however it’s following Linux and implementing eBPF as a more secure alternative that runs mostly in user land and in a sandbox in kernel space. For the type of thing that this app does, it’s a logical change of direction that does not require the same level of EV code signing.
There's the first party MAUI which is an updated version of Xamarin Forms. The two best-known third-party implementations are AvaloniaUI and Uno. I prefer Uno, it has more cross-platform targets.