My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

API testing with .http files in Visual Studio

December 21, 2023
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I really do not like using command line tools for everyday tasks, I just prefer to grab my mouse, and point and then ...

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DasBlog’s upgrade to .NET 8 is ready!

December 06, 2023
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I am pleased to share that DasBlog has been upgraded to support .NET 8! It has been busy few weeks so it took me a ...

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Hot Reload for C# Dev Kit

November 29, 2023
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With the C# Dev Kit extension installed in Visual Studio Code, the debugger allows you to apply C# code changes while ...

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Building debugging context for Copilot Chat

November 18, 2023
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The Copilot Chat extension (preview) for Visual Studio is available for download today, but I feel the need to ...

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Thriving in the age of AI

October 07, 2023
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I distinctly remember this enlightening David Bowie interview from circa 1999, most fascinating to me is the discussion ...

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Real music and authentic voices

September 09, 2023
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The question of 'real music' has plagued and disrupted principled musical discourse for years. I have always seen it as ...

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Configure dotnet-monitor in an AKS cluster for Managed Grafana

August 04, 2023
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dotnet-monitor provides snapshots of .NET metrics in the Prometheus exposition format, Prometheus in turn collects ...

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We shape our tools thereafter they shape us

July 11, 2023
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I have had some productive push back from friends and ex-colleagues who have been trying to process the mostly ...

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Curiosity unbounded

June 29, 2023
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An excerpt from the speech given by Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s 18th president:'Curiosity is the passion to understand how ...

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