385: Edging the Fox

Microsoft is making aggressive moves to court more and more developers. We put on our analyst hats and lay out the hard cold truth.

Plus our trouble with Gnomes, your feedback, and martinis on the moon.

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Links:

• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Ugh of course it's #Gnome extensions! I disabled Backslide, rebooted and all of a sudden it all works again."
• Building A Better GNOME Extensions Experience — With the advent of the new release of GNOME 3.38 – we want to start focusing next cycle on improving the GNOME Extensions experience.
• Introducing Microsoft Edge preview builds for Linux — Today’s release supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions. Going forward, we plan to release weekly builds following our typical Dev Channel cadence alongside our other supported platforms.
• Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code — Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of the new Microsoft Edge Tools for VS Code extension,
• Introducing the Storage Access API
• ‎iSH Shell on the App Store — Linux in your pocket