Jeff Wilcox

@jeff_wilcox@robot.villas

Jeff Wilcox's personal engineering articles about GitHub, Microsoft, developer infrastructure, home networking, and technology projects.

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Protect your GitHub App private keys with Azure Key Vault and remote JWT signing #DevOps #Security #Cloud
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Mar 11, 2026
My $6,000 Tesla Wall Connector: the story of bringing Electric Vehicle charging to a high-rise condo tower in Seattle #EV #HomeTech #UrbanLiving
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Nov 25, 2019
Scaling from 2,000 to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft #Engineering #Tech #Scale
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Jun 25, 2019
My home network: Ubiquiti UniFi gear, fiber gigabit Internet, CAT6 and CAT3 wiring #Networking #HomeTech #Ubiquiti
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Apr 10, 2018
From 20 to 2,000 engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub and our Open Source Portal #OpenSource #Cloud #DevOps
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Nov 18, 2015
Adobe's Creative Cloud - I've been spending $2/day #Software #Cloud #Cost
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Jun 18, 2013
I reduced my cloud bill 9% this month by favoring my most active Windows Phone app users (Live Tiles, Leaderboards, Toasts) #CloudComputing #Developer #Optimization
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May 13, 2012
A few 4th & Mayor things: Node cloud backend, Nokia Apps Madness, new markets & localization efforts #Tech #Cloud #Development
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Mar 28, 2012
4th & Mayor - 1 Year Later #Tech #Engineering #Personal
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Mar 20, 2012
To the cloud! #Cloud #Technology #Infrastructure
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Feb 12, 2012
Windows Phone apps, built out of "the 3 P's": Panoramas, Pivots, and Pages #WindowsPhone #MobileDev #AppDev
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Jan 29, 2012
Please ship your next Windows Phone app with GZip: speed requests 50-80% #WindowsPhone #Developer #Performance
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Jan 22, 2012
A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs #WindowsPhone #Dev #Design
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Jan 15, 2012
A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes #WindowsPhone #Developer #QRCode
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Jan 14, 2012
My new Windows Phone Emulator theme-simple and sleek #WindowsPhone #DeveloperTools #Tech
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Dec 12, 2011
MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud #NodeJS #Cloud #Dev
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Dec 7, 2011
November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit #Silverlight #WindowsPhone #Developer
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Nov 15, 2011
Drive your application's navigation through templated HyperlinkButtons and smart data binding to app-wide URIs #Dev #Programming #UI
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Oct 31, 2011
ScreenShots.cs: How to capture screenshots of your app on your device #DeveloperTools #Programming #AppDevelopment
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Oct 12, 2011
MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike #DeveloperTools #Debugging #Design
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Oct 7, 2011
Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagick #NodeJs #ImageMagick #WebDev
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Oct 5, 2011
A note about remote URIs in Windows Phone secondary tiles #WindowsPhone #Developer #Tech
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Sep 27, 2011
Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance #WindowsPhone #Developer #Performance
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Sep 13, 2011
Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for 'Mango' #WindowsPhone #Developer #Silverlight
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Aug 17, 2011
Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone application #WindowsPhone #Dev #AppDev
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Jul 7, 2011
Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2 #WindowsPhone #Developer #MobileDev
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Jul 7, 2011
Excellent Silverlight for Windows Phone Performance Posts #Silverlight #WindowsPhone #Performance
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Jul 5, 2011
4th & Mayor v2 is now released #Software #Development #OpenSource
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Jun 28, 2011
Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework binaries-compatible with the Mango phone tools beta #Silverlight #Testing #Developer
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Jun 9, 2011
April was a busy month. Looking back and ahead... #Tech #Personal #Engineering
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May 7, 2011
Speaker evaluations: they're important, please turn them in! #Community #Feedback #Events
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Apr 17, 2011
Windows Phone App Performance: My session from MIX11 #WindowsPhone #Dev #Tech
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Apr 15, 2011
My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator theme #WindowsPhone #Developer #Theme
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Apr 5, 2011
Analytics and automatic app feedback: A slippery but interesting slope for Windows Phone apps #Developer #Analytics #Tech
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Mar 31, 2011
Jeff Wilcox's "Metro" design guide for developers, v1.00 #Design #Developer #UI
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Mar 25, 2011
4th & Mayor: the ultimate foursquare app for your Windows Phone #WindowsPhone #Apps #Foursquare
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Mar 20, 2011
Windows Phone, a great dev platform: adding leaderboards to 4th & Mayor in 30 minutes #Developer #WindowsPhone #Gaming
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Mar 20, 2011
Upcoming speaking engagements on the Windows Phone #Tech #WindowsPhone #Developer
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Mar 16, 2011
I'm developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone #MobileDev #WindowsPhone #Foursquare
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Mar 10, 2011
Using AutoCompleteBox in a Windows Phone Panorama or Pivot item #WindowsPhone #Dev #MobileDev
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Mar 9, 2011