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How to make separate Work and Personal Profiles with the New Microsoft Edge...
I'm a long time Chrome user but have been slowly finding myself using the new Edge (Edgium?) and am now basically living in it full time. Why? My work use O365/M365 logins and it is great with a "Work...
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Exploring the .NET open source hybrid ORM library RepoDB
It's nice to explore alternatives, especially in open source software. Just because there's a way, or an "official" way doesn't mean it's the best way. Today I'm looking at RepoDb. It says it's "a...
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Finding Joy in Making Happy Little Computer Videos on YouTube
We're all remote and it's sad, but I've found some new joy of late in rebooting my little low-traffic newsletter AND making YouTube videos when the kids are asleep. You can go subscribe to my YouTube...
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Official Support for Remote Debugging a .NET Core Linux app in WSL2 from...
I've blogged before about Developing on Docker with the new and improved Visual Studio Container Tools (and WSL2) and also Remote Debugging a .NET Core Linux app in WSL2 from Visual Studio on Windows....
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How do I find which directory my .NET Core console application was started in...
I got a great question emailed to me today. And while I could find the answer and email them back, I also have a limited number of keystrokes. Plus, every question that moves knowledge forward is a...
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How to SSH into WSL2 on Windows 10 from an external machine
Cool blog post eh? Good title, right? DO NOT DO THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS POST until you have read the FOLLOW UP THE EASY WAY how to SSH into Bash and WSL2 on Windows 10 from an external machine and...
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THE EASY WAY how to SSH into Bash and WSL2 on Windows 10 from an external...
This is an interesting blog post on How to SSH into WSL2 on Windows 10 from an external machine. Read it. Know how it works. Learn it. AND DO NOT DO IT BECAUSE IT'S TOO COMPLEX. DO NOT DO THIS. It's...
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Reviewing the Elecrow CrowPi2 Raspberry Pi Laptop and STEM Education Platform
I love the Raspberry Pi and I am a fan of the CrowPi from Elecrow. I have two of their first CrowPi device and I use them in demonstrations and talks all the time, especially when talking to students....
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Free Books for Learning and Getting Started with Cloud-Native .NET Apps
If you haven't been over to the Architecture section of the .NET site lately, I'd encourage you to go check it out. There is a TON of free learning content, books, code, and more! Containers for...
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What is .NET? How does it work? Is it a language or a Platform?
If you want to learn about .NET, I worked with my friends to make a whole series of videos at https://dot.net/videos that go into lots of details about C# the language, .NET the platform, ASP.NET the...
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Connect to a device over Serial COM Port on Windows 10 with WSL1 TTY devices...
I hope that this blog post is found and helps someone. I wasn't sure what to title it. Hope Google Juice got you here! Read this whole post, there's a lot initially but there's really just two or three...
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Docker 101 and How do containers work?
Everyone is using containers and talking about containers. Except those for whom it hasn't "clicked." Obvious to some and unendingly frustrating to others, containers are changing how we build and...
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Exploring the .NET Core library Coravel for Task Scheduling, Caching, Mailing...
Coravel claims it is a "Near-zero config .NET Core library that makes Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Mailing, Event Broadcasting (and more) a breeze!" A lovely claim, that is, in fact, true! It's...
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It's 2020 and it is time for text mode with Gui.cs
Nearly 16 years ago I complained that Windows is completely missing the TextMode boat. It's 2020 and it's TIME FOR TEXT MODE BABY. I keep bumping into cool utilities made with Gui.cs. Miguel de Icaza...
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Synology DS1520+ is the sweet spot for a home NAS and a private cloud
My long love of Synology products is well-documented. I checked my Amazon history, and I bought my Synology DS1511+ NAS in May of 2011! I have blogged about the joy of having a home server over these...
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How to use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a Minecraft Java Server
My 14 year old got tired of paying $7.99 for Minecraft Realm so he could host his friends in their world. He was just hosting on his laptop and then forwarding a port but that means his friends can't...
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What is the cloud? Explained
I'm continuing my "Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You" series on YouTube. Please subscribe! I've set a personal goal to get to 100k subs by Christmas. This episode is very special as it features a...
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Cross platform diagnostic tools for .NET Core
.NET Core is cross platform and open source. Tell someone, maybe your boss. A good reminder. It's been this way for a half decade but I'm still bumping into folks who have never heard this. Moving...
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dotnet-trace for .NET Core tracing in PerfView, SpeedScope, Chromium Event...
Speedscope.app is an online "flamegraph visualizer" that you can also install offline. It's open source and on GitHub. It will allow you to view flamegraphs that have been generated by diagnostic...
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Blazor WebAssembly on Azure Static Web Apps
Many apps today are just static files on the front end - HTML and JavaScript - with something powerful on the server side. They aren't "static apps" as they have very dynamic front end experiences, but...
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