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Dotnet Depends is a great text mode development utility made with Gui.cs
I love me some text mode. ASCII, ANSI, VT100. Keep your 3D accelerated ray traced graphics and give me a lovely emoji-based progress bar. Miguel has a nice thing called Gui.cs and I bumped into it in...
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Good, Better, Best - creating the ultimate remote worker webcam setup on a...
I've been a remote worker and an occasional YouTuber for well over a decade. I'm always looking for a better setup because the goal is clear - how can I interact with you and my co-workers in a way...
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The PICO-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day...
I love everything about PICO-8. It's a fantasy gaming console that wants you - and the kids in your life and everyone you know - to make games! How cool is that? You know the game Celeste? It's...
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I miss Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It stopped shipping in 2009 on DVD. I recently found a disk and was impressed that it installed just perfectly on my latest...
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SharpScript from ServiceStack lets you run .NET apps directly from a GitHub...
I've blogged about ServiceStack before. It's an extraordinary open source project - an ecosystem of its own even - that is designed to be an alternative to the WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web API...
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Review: UniFi from Ubiquiti Networking is the ultimate prosumer home...
I LOVE my Amplifi Wi-Fi Mesh Network. I've had it for two years and it's been an absolute star performer. We haven't had a single issue. Rock solid. That's really saying something. From unboxing to...
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dotnet new worker - Windows Services or Linux systemd services in .NET Core
You've long been able to write Windows Services in .NET and .NET Core, and you could certainly write a vanilla Console App and cobble something together for a long running headless service as well....
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Totally unsupported hacks - Add Windows Terminal to the Win+X Shortcut menu
You shouldn't do this and if you choose to do this you may hurt yourself or one of your beloved pets. You have been warned. The Windows+X hotkey has been around for many years as is a simple...
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Deploying a MSDeploy-packaged Web application to a Linux Azure App Service...
For bizarre and unknown historical reasons, when using MSDeploy to make a ZIP package to upload a website to a web server you get a massively deep silly path like...
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Introducing open source Windows 10 PowerToys
Yesterday the Windows Team announced the first preview and code release of PowerToys for Windows 10. This first preview includes two utilities: The Windows key shortcut guide. Just hold down WIN+KEY...
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Visual Studio now includes an integrated Terminal
It's early days (preview) but there's now a Terminal integrated into Visual Studio! Taking a nod from the 2017 plugin, the Terminal is now build in as an experimental feature using features from the...
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How to fix dfu-util, STM, WinUSB, Zadig, Bootloaders and other Firmware...
I'm pretty happy with Windows 10 as my primary development box. It can do most anything I want, run a half-dozen Linuxes, and has a shiny new open source Terminal, and has great support for Docker now....
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Emulating a PlayStation 1 (PSX) entirely with C# and .NET
I was reading an older post in an emulator forum where someone was asking for a Playstation 1 (PSX) emulator written in C#, and the replies went on and on about how C# and .NET are not suited for...
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Patching the new Cascadia Code to include Powerline Glyphs and other Nerd...
Microsoft released a nice new ligature-friendly open source font this week called Cascadia Code. It'll eventually be shipped with the open source Windows Terminal (you can get it from the store fee)...
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What's the difference between a console, a terminal, and a shell?
I see a lot of questions that are close but the questions themselves show an underlying misunderstanding of some important terms. Why would I use Windows Terminal over PowerShell? I don't need WSL for...
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Announcing free C#, .NET, and ASP.NET for beginners video courses and tutorials
If you've been thinking about learning C#, now is the time to jump in! I've been working on this project for months and I'm happy to announce http://dot.net/videos There's nearly a hundred short...
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How to download over 80 free 101-level C#, .NET, and ASP.NET for beginners...
Earlier this week I announced over 80 new free videos in our .NET Core 3.0 launch video series - Announcing free C#, .NET, and ASP.NET for beginners video courses and tutorials Three questions came up...
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A wonderfully unholy alliance - Real Linux commands for PowerShell with WSL...
I posted recently about What's the difference between a console, a terminal, and a shell? The world of Windows is interesting - and a little weird and unfamiliar to non-Windows people. You might use...
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Now is the time to make a fresh new Windows Terminal profiles.json
I've been talking about it for months, but in case you haven't heard, there's a new Windows Terminal in town. You can download it and start using it now from the Windows Store. It's free and open...
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Video Interview: Between Two Nerds - Building Careers with Empathy
I was fortunate to be a guest on Steve Carroll's talk show "Careers Behind the Code," but Amanda Silver calls it "Between Two Nerds," so I'm going with that superior title. We also snuck a fern into...
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