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How to deal with Extreme Physical Pain
I'm in a LOT of pain right now. It's hard to say that, especially considering that everyone experiences pain be it emotional or physical. I don't want to make unneeded comparisons or consider my pain...
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Using an Xbox Adaptive Controller and Xbox Copilot to get back into gaming...
Thanks for the kind words on my post earlier this week. Lots of great tips both in the comments and were sent to me privately. I'm still alternating meds, struggling at physical therapy every day, but...
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How to allow executable .exe files to be downloaded with ASP.NET Core and...
In the long process of upgrading this blog and moving it to Azure I've been slowly fixing small bugs and also dealing with the dozens of microsites I have hanging off of hanselman.com. Some were...
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Creating a question friendly environment
A few years back I had a lovely podcast conversation with technical leader Keavy McMinn. Sometimes I wonder if anyone listens to the show. Then a nice comment will come in when someone listen to an...
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How to change the background of your Windows Terminal settings
I've often asked for my Windows Terminal's settings.json (formerly profiles.json) so I keep it up on GitHub. The thing is, all my machines are different. I mix it up, I change it. Remember that the...
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Your dotnet outdated is outdated! Update and help keep your .NET projects up...
I've talked about the dotnet-outdated tool before but now it's, ahem, outdated. It's moved to new owners so head over to your command line and update "dotnet-outdated" like this:dotnet tool uninstall...
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Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core
I've long said, as a fan of the console and text mode, that the command line is underloved. You can do accelerated 3D VR, sure, but impress me with a nice ASCII progress bar or spinner and oh my!...
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How to make a WinForms app with .NET 5 entirely from the command line and...
I got a lovely email from a reader named Steven who has been doing .NET for many years and is excited about .NET 5. He has an interesting perspective: I really like the .NET library. During 2020, I've...
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The 2020 Christmas List of Best STEM Toys for Kids
Hey friends, another year, another list of Great STEM Christmas Toys for Kids (and people who are kids at heart)! In case you missed them, here's the previous years' lists! Be aware I use Amazon...
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You should be customizing your PowerShell Prompt with PSReadLine
I use PowerShell 7 (cross platform, open source, runs on .NET Core) as my main shell of choice at the Windows command line. I use it in the Windows Terminal and I have a pretty prompt thanks to...
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The art of Rubber Ducking or Rubber Duck Debugging
It works. Really. "Put a rubber duck on your monitor and tell it how the code is supposed to work." The Rubber Duck can be your disinterested roommate, non-technical spouse, or your work-spouse. I call...
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The regular joy of the Adafruit AdaBox Subscription and exploring IoT with...
I'm a fan of Adafruit and all their products. There's no referral links here, just fandom and a personal recommendation from me. I've been a long-time subscriber of the AdaBox. The AdaBox is "Curated...
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Taking your PowerShell prompt to the next level with Windows Terminal and Oh...
I love my pretty prompt that I use with Windows Terminal and Powershell. I also like using PSReadline to bring even more cool features to the CLI (Command Line Interface). One of the best and easiest...
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Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Can you believe it's been 6 years since my last Tools list? Tools have changed, a lot are online, but honestly, it's just a LOT OF WORK to do the tools list. But here's one for 2020-2021. These are the...
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Microsoft Teams Buttons for Stream Deck to Mute, Share, Hang up, and Manage...
The Stream Deck! (amazon link) is a lovely little device with bright LCD buttons that you can program to do basically anything. I decided to finally add a few hotkeys for Microsoft Teams. I wanted...
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Looking back on Software Development in 2020 and forward to 2021
I think we can all agree 2020 sucked. Hopefully 2021 will be better. I've been a remote worker for 13 years by choice but in 2020 I HAD TO DO IT because, well, most programmers and tech workers did. I...
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Exploring my creativity through TikTok and YouTube technical education videos
Last year kind sucked, and the end of last year was particularly lame. I got off Twitter for a while and discovered TikTok. I went there as a creative outlet. If you choose to sign up you may get...
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Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio...
Tailscale is a zero config mesh "VPN" that runs atop other networks and effectively "flattens" networks and allows users/services to more easily (and securely) communicate with each other. For example,...
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Hack a TV into a Teams and Zoom Computer with EpocCam and Miracast
If you have a TV, you can turn it into a fancy conference room monitor and pretend you have a Surface Hub 2S. Let's see the different ways we can make Teams/Zoom meetings more a "walking around and...
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Get on the Windows Terminal PREVIEW train - now with Settings UI
Turns out you can install both the Windows Terminal AND the Windows Terminal Preview side by side! This will let you try out all the upcoming features in this "skip next" version. You can grab the next...
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