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CSI: The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card
Buckle up kids, as this is a tale. As you may know, I have a lovely podcast at https://hanselminutes.com. You should listen. Recently through an number of super cool random events I got the opportunity...
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Take Remote Worker/Educator webcam video calls to the next level with OBS,...
Over the years I've collected a few webcams, some quality and some not. If you're interested in creating the ultimate remote worker webcam setup on a budget, I've written a blog post on the topic....
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Windows Terminal 1.0 is coming - Update now and set up your split pane hotkeys!
The Windows Terminal is free and in the Windows Store and you should go make sure you have the latest update. The v0.10 is out and it's got a number of lovely quality of life improvements, not the...
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Easily adding Security Headers to your ASP.NET Core web app and getting an A...
Well that sucks. That's my podcast website with an F rating from SecurityHeaders.com. What's the deal? I took care of this months ago! Turns out, recently I moved from Windows to Linux on Azure. If I...
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How to remote desktop fullscreen RDP with just SOME of your multiple monitors
I saw this over on the Microsoft Remote Desktop Uservoice Allow ability to choose subset of local monitors for RDP session (full screen) Allow ability to select a subset of current monitors with full...
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A series of new YouTube Videos - Please Subscribe
Hey friends, in this time of remoteness, I've been making a lot more YouTube videos and they're pretty decent, IMHO. I'd love it if you'd subscribe, share them, and encourage your friends and...
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The 2020 Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts, Presentations, and...
I've had a lot of people ask me to write up a guide to creating great technical screencasts. This is an update to my 2011 post on the same topic. What are you doing? STOP and reassert your assumptions...
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Quarantine work is not Remote work
It's hard. Now, to be clear, if you're working at all in these times, you're very fortunate. I am very fortunate to have a job that lets me work from home. Many of my coworkers, friends, and colleagues...
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How to Remote Desktop (RDP) into a Windows 10 Azure AD joined machine
Since everyone started working remotely, I've personally needed to Remote Desktop into more computers lately than ever before. More this week than in the previous decade. I wrote recently about to How...
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CoreBoy is a cross platform GameBoy Emulator written in C# that even does ASCII
.NET and C# are great languages for programming emulators. Specifically retrogaming and retroarcade emulators. In fact, there's a long history of emulators written in C#. Here's just a few. Emulating a...
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Microsoft Build 2020 registration is not only open, it's FREE, it's LIVE,...
Microsoft Build 2020 is upon us, registration is open NOW. Stop reading this blog post and go register. I'll wait here. Done? Sweet. It's not the Build we thought it would be, but it's gonna be...
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Review: Logitech MX keyboard and mouse - MX Keys and MX Master 3
Logitech makes some beautiful keyboards and mice. Frankly, for me there's just Logitech and Microsoft in the keyboard and mouse game. I've never been a big fan of mechanical keyboards. I like a soft...
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Review of the Surface Book 3 for Developers
I was offered a Surface Book 3 to use as a loaner over the the last 5 weeks. I did a short video teaser on Twitter where I beat on the device with a pretty ridiculous benchmark - running Visual Studio...
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Windows PowerToys FancyZones is the essential window manager for Windows 10
Last year Microsoft rebooted PowerToys and it's open source and on GitHub. It's a few months later and PowerToys is getting even better. You can download and install it from...
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Developing on Docker with the new and improved Visual Studio Container Tools...
I've been spending a lot of time with Docker lately. Docker Desktop on Windows is great and getting better every day. Now that WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is rolling out stable over the coming...
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Mirroring your Presence Status from the Microsoft Graph in Teams to LIFX or...
During the Microsoft Build keynote last week - that you can watch free online here - we snuck in a LOT of detail and easter eggs. We planned the whole thing out like a live stage play (I have a...
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Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IEFT) points out that "Master-slave is an oppressive metaphor that will and should never become fully detached from history" as well as "In addition to being...
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The Importance of Nesting when Remote Working and Quarantine Working
We've all learned the hard way that Quarantine work is not Remote work. It doesn't feel the same because it's not the same. It's a hard time right now and tension is high. "People are overwhelmed,...
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Using the Blockly visual programming editor to call a .NET Core WebAPI
I like to showcase interesting and cool open source projects that need more attention! Go give our friend a star on GitHub! NetCoreBlockly on GitHub is clever and fun! Blockly is a JavaScript library...
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You're tired because your lizard brain knows that Zoom meetings aren't natural
Remote work isn't normal. It's great when it's not quarantine work, to be clear. I've worked remotely with success for over 13 years and written about it extensively. I'm pro-remote work. But. Doing...
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