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Thomas Maurer
Personal blog · thomasmaurer.chsystemsprogramming
Thomas Maurer's personal blog at thomasmaurer.ch covers systems and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Thomas Maurer's posts as examples and references for Windows tooling: installing Sysinternals from PowerShell via OneGet, installing WSL 2 on Windows on ARM, and handwriting-to-math conversion in OneNote.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog of Thomas Maurer - Focusing on Cloud Computing and Datacenter, especially Microsoft Azure, Azure Arc, Azure Stack, Windows Server, Azure Local, Windows, PowerShell and more.
What Hacker News says?
OneNote does this. You can either insert a new equation and get an editor, or select existing strokes to convert (to either writing or math). There's sometimes error correcting involved, but it's pretty impressive. http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Math-I...
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on “Staffpad: a new class of notation app”Submitted Boot from Storage Spaces Virtual Disk in Windows 10 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionfor example Install Sysinternals from PowerShell via OneGet http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2014/04/install-sysinternals-from...
Comment linking /2014/04/install-sysinternals-from-powershell-via-oneget/
on “Windows Management Framework V5 Preview”Submitted How I Manage and Plan Tasks as a Remote Worker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSpeaking of, Microsoft, surprisingly, already supports WSL on Windows on ARM: https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/12/how-to-install-wsl-2-on-... And the Linux distros available there are true ARM64.
Comment linking /2019/12/how-to-install-wsl-2-on-windows-10-on-arm/
on “iPadOS 15”Submitted My Customized Windows Terminal Settings Profiles JSON as a story · 2 points
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