The Portuguese Can No Longer Afford To Live in Portugal (Or Even Survive) Portugal is for sale, can you afford it? The majority of us can’t! Million-dollar houses, miserable salaries, a hostile climate, and a…
Merge Editor Improvements Highlight VS Code 1.71 (August 2022 Update) -- Visual Studio Magazine Despite August being a popular month for Visual Studio Code engineers to vacation, the dev team managed to churn out a bunch of new features in the regular monthly update, bringing the lightweight, open source-based, cross-platform code editor to v1.71.
Windows Devs Prefer PowerShell as CLI -- Visual Studio Magazine Survey shows PowerShell preferred, with 45.2 percent of the votes, followed by cmd (37.6 percent), WSL Bash (15.6 percent) and Azure Cloud Shell (1.6 percent).
Alexandre Nédélec - How did I automate the setup of my developer Windows laptop? In this article, I talked about my latest project: how I built a script to automate the setup of my developer machine using Boxstarter, Chocolatey, Winget, and PowerShell... and how I learned a few things along the way.
Webhooks.fyi Learn the most popular approaches for building, securing, and operating webhooks, with recommendations for webhook providers and consumers
Kagi status update: First three months Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
Got Mad .NET MAUI Skills? Show Off! -- Visual Studio Magazine 'The .NET MAUI Cloud Skills Challenge is a fun and exciting way to learn .NET MAUI and grab the latest .NET MAUI sticker swag!'
Beware of records, with expressions and calculated properties I’ve been using C# records a lot since the feature was introduced. However, when using them, we really need to understand how they work, otherwise we might face unexpected surprises.
RandomStreetView.com shows random streetview images from around the world. An extraordinarily addictive and fun site. Simply click 'Next' and continue to be amazed. Select your favorite country. Play a slideshow in fullscreen. Use as a screensaver. Best way to kill your time.
The Dictatorship of the Articulate “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — Shakespeare A few years ago, Silicon Valley was buzzing with the reverberations of Marc Andreessen’s epic essay, It’s Time To Build. In case y…
I Bought the Computer from WarGames Dave takes you on a tour of the IMSAI 8080, from history to setup and configuration to running Microsoft BASIC and CP/M. For my book "Secrets of the Autistic...
Why am I getting a null pointer crash when trying to call a method on my C++/WinRT object? Requirements weren't met.
How IEnumerable can kill your performance in C# The first 100 of you can use code SCHOOL2022 for 20% off courses and bundles at https://nickchapsas.comBecome a Patreon and get source code access: https://w...
Incrementally Migrating an ASP.NET Framework application to Razor Pages Do you have a huge .NET framework application (Web forms, MVC) that relies on authentication and/or System.Web types that you would ideally like to migrate to .NET Core, but just don't have the bandwidth to put everything on hold while you rewrite th...
Infrequent, Pragmatic, Lambda Blog - Cognitive Loads in Programming “My brain hurts”, a quote from a code review
Epic Cycling | 134.5 kg Concrete Bike We made the first concrete functional bike in the whole world, it's crazy! its weight of 134.5 kg makes it very unusual but its construction process is extre...
Advance performance approaches to deliver high quality experiences in Microsoft Teams In light of rapidly evolving customer expectations and massive growth in demand for the digital communications and collaboration services Microsoft Teams offers, we've learned a lot over the past two years about what it takes to deliver a high-performance...
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting Extend creativity and tell a bigger story with DALL-E images of any size Today we’re introducing Outpainting, a new feature which helps users extend their creativity by continuing an image beyond its original borders — adding visual elements in t...
Use Refresh Tokens in ASP.NET Core Apps Learn why and how to use refresh tokens in ASP.NET Core applications.
Testing and Software Quality: Creating Happy Users Normally, testing is just about finding bugs—“defect removal”—which is worth doing. But testing can also be about increasing your application’s quality.
Rainbow Colorized Brackets in Visual Studio A popular extension and later core feature of VS Code, rainbow bracket colorization is now available as a free extension for Visual Studio.
Learning To Use Menu Bar in .NET MAUI Today in our .NET MAUI explorations, let’s see how to use one of the primary tools for any app—a menu bar!
Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final In an exclusive interview with TV 2 SPORT, former Chinese badminton star Ye Zhaoying discloses details hitherto held secret.
WebKit on GitHub! On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub.