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Writing .NET Core Global Tools with F#

The release of .NET Core 2.1 brought with it a bunch of great additions, and one of the ones I've been looking forward to the most is the addition of support for creating global tools. This has always been a great feature in the JavaScript world, allowing you to write and distribute command-line tools via npm. F# has long been my favorite go-to language for scripting, and as such I've compiled quite a few F#…

Checking Savings Bond Values with F#, Docker, and Azure

When I was growing up some of my family insisted on giving me savings bonds for things like Christmas and my birthday, in what I assume is was a frugal way to teach me about very (very) delayed gratification. I still have a bunch, but the value isn't particularly high and the process of checking their value is tedious, so I generally only end up checking it maybe every five years or so. I figured it…

Getting Started with Augmented Reality in iOS 11

Over the last several years augmented reality (AR) has become a hot topic across all platforms and technology sectors. Apple's release of iOS 11 included a new framework called ARKit that aims to make it easy for developers to add AR experiences into their apps without a lot of hassle or ceremony. While it's still a little limited in its initial form, Apple was still able to create an approachable framework for incorporating AR into apps,…