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The wires are crossed, literally! - Learning low level computing with Ben...
I've blogged about the importance of the LED Moment. You know, that moment when you get it to blink. Ben Eater is a bit of an internet legend. His site at https://eater.net has a shop and YouTube...
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Yori - The quiet little CMD replacement that you need to install NOW
I did a post on the difference between a console, a terminal, and a shell a while back. We talk a lot about alternative "Terminals" like the Windows Terminal (that you should download immediately) but...
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Updating my ASP.NET podcast site to System.Text.Json from Newtonsoft.Json
Now that .NET Core 3.1 is LTS (Long Term Support) and will be supported for 3 years, it's the right time for me to update all my .NET Core 2.x sites to 3.1. It hasn't take long at all and the piece of...
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My Interview and Podcast Production Process on the Hanselminutes Podcast
Hey! Did you know I have a podcast? A few actually but Hanselminutes has been doing for over 700 episodes over 13 years and it's pretty good if I may say so myself. It's a 30 min show meant for your...
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.NET everywhere apparently also means Windows 3.11 and DOS
I often talk about how .NET Core is open source and runs "everywhere." MonoGame, Unity, Apple Watches, Raspberry Pi, and Microcontrollers (as well as a dozen Linuxes, Windows, etc) is a lot of places....
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My views on community, productivity, kindness, and mindfulness on the...
At the start of a new decade and over 700 episodes of my tech podcast, I did something weird. I had myself on the show. Egotistical, perhaps, given the show literally has my name in it, but the way it...
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Trying out Container Tools in Visual Studio 2019
I've been doing more and more work in Docker containers (rather than on the metal) and I noticed recently that Visual Studio 2019 added updated support for containers within VS itself so gave it a try....
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Retrogaming by modding original consoles to remove moving parts and add USB...
I'm a documented big fan of Retrogaming (playing older games and introducing my kids to those older games). For example, we enjoy the Hyperkin Retron 5 in that it lets us play NES, Famicom, SNES, Super...
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Hosting your own NuGet Server and Feed for build artifacts with BaGet
NuGet is the package management system underlying the .NET programming platform. Just like Ruby Gems or NPM Packages, you can bring in 3rd party packages or make your own. The public repository is...
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Hundreds of practical ASP.NET Core samples to learn the fundamentals
There's a growing world of .NET 101 samples out there. From our own http://dot.net/videos starter videos on YouTube (over 100 and adding more all the time!) to the whole .NET learning center where you...
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Your Todo application is too complex or not complex enough
I've blogged before about ASP.NET Architect David Fowler's hidden gems in ASP.NET. His GitHub is worth following because he's always exploring and thinking and he's doing it in public. I love reading...
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Announcing .NET Interactive - Try .NET includes .NET Notebooks and more
At Microsoft Ignite 2019, we were happy to announce that the "Try .NET global tool" added support for C# and F# Jupyter notebooks. Last week, the same team that brought you .NET Notebooks announced...
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It's time for you to install Windows Terminal
It's time. It's the feature complete release of the Windows Terminal. Stop reading, and go install it. I'll wait here. You done? OK. You can download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or...
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How to install Visual Studio Code on a Raspberry Pi 4 in minutes
Four years ago I wrote how to BUILD (literally compile) Visual Studio Code for a Raspberry Pi ARM machine. Just a few months later in November, community member Jay Rodgers released his labor of love -...
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How to set up Docker within Windows System for Linux (WSL2) on Windows 10
I've written about WSL2 and it's glorious wonders many times. As its release (presumably) grows closer - as of this writing it's on Windows Insiders Slow and Fast - I wanted to update a few posts. I've...
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How to set up a tab profile in Windows Terminal to automatically SSH into a...
By now I hope you've installed Windows Terminal. If not, go do that, I'll wait. It's time. You may also have customize your settings. If you tried terminal a few versions ago and haven't gone back in,...
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Love in a time of Corona Virus - Tips, Tricks and Best Practices for Working...
In this time of the Corona Virus and COVID-19, Microsoft has taken the unprecedented move of shutting down their Seattle campus. No one goes in to work until March 25th. That means they're all remote...
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Making a cleaner and more intentional azure-pipelines.yml for an ASP.NET Core...
A few months back I moved my CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development) to Azure DevOps for free. You get 1800 build minutes a month FREE and I'm not even close to using it with three...
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Adding a git commit hash and Azure DevOps Build Number and Build ID to an...
A few months back I moved my CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development) to Azure DevOps for free. You get 1800 build minutes a month FREE and I'm not even close to using it with three...
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How to SSH into a Windows 10 Machine from Linux OR Windows OR anywhere
I've been shushing all over the place lately. I SSH into Linux from Windows using the built-in OpenSSH Client that Windows 10 has shipped for years that you didn't know about. ;) You don't need Putty...
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