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Latest dispatch 8 min readSeasoned Developer Advice after 25 years in IT
I've now been working in IT for exactly 25 years. My impostor syndrome is still very much present....
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My Windows 11 Laptop Was Struggling with Claude and Codex. Defender Exclusions Helped.
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Moving to European Digital Services, One Decision at a Time
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Fixing “Your organization has deleted this device” Without Reconnecting Everything
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Stop Coding Through Remote Desktop. Use VS Code Remote Tunnels Instead
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Using GitHub Copilot CLI with Azure AI Foundry (BYOK Models) – Part 2
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Using GitHub Copilot CLI with Local Models (LM Studio)
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GitHub Copilot Is Too Nice. Fix It With a Tone of Voice File.
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Git Mirroring During Migrations: `--all` vs `--mirror`
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GitHub Copilot to Generate Conventional Commit Messages in VSCode and JetBrains Rider
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A Practical GitFlow Setup That Works on GitHub
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How I created a Cozy Workspace in VS Code
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Why I Built TaskDeck and How It Improves Your VS Code Workflow
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Why I Use JetBrains Rider for .NET Development
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⚡ Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 11
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Building My New Website with Astro, GitHub Copilot, and AWS Amplify
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🌱 Introducing Green Software Indicator: a Browser Extension for a greener web
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✨ Advanced Tips and Tricks for GitHub Gists (Part 1: Unlocking the Power of Gists)
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🚀 GitHub Copilot: A Persona-Based Approach to Real-World Development
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Writing Emails: Tips & Tricks (Especially for Developers)
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How I Organize My Microsoft Teams Chats (Without Losing My Mind)
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Running External Commands in C# and Wait Until They Finish
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Structuring GitHub Enterprise: Best Practices from the Org Level Down
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Tools I Use Every Day (June 2025 Edition)
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SignAI - AI-powered service email signatures
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My First 3 Months as a Senior Cloud Engineer at Xebia
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Tips for Improving API Performance in ASP.NET Core
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How to Configure YubiKey with GitHub
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From Hello World to Hello Customers: Why Programs Aren’t Products
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Git stashing: save and restore your code
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C# to Typescript Cheatsheet
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What’s in My Bag: The Essentials for a Productive Day at the Office [2025]
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How to Enhance the API Response with a Wrapper Class with Additional Information with .NET Minimal API
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My Favorite Tech Stack for Startup Success in 2025
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How I Set Up an Awesome PowerShell Environment for Script Development
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Transforming Windows Terminal into a Productivity Powerhouse
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Using Git Maintenance in GitHub Actions: Optimize Your Repositories Automatically
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Optimizing Your Repository for Speed and Efficiency
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The Secret Life of a Microsoft MVP
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Introducing PowerShell Utility Scripts
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Codemotion 2024 Milan: Rediscovering My Voice and Passion as a Speaker
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Impostor Syndrome: from A - Z
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Recap of Experts Live 2024 in Budapest: Three Days of Cloud, Code, and Connections
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The Impact of Not Turning Off Your PC for Three Weeks: A Deep Dive into Hibernate Mode and Application Performance
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Why You Should Attend Experts Live Europe 2024 in Budapest: Unlocking Opportunities in the Heart of Innovation
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Why Reading Official Documentation First Made Me a Better Developer
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🎉 Celebrating 11 Years as a Microsoft MVP: A Journey of Perseverance and Gratitude 🌟
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Navigating Tech Debt in Early-Stage Startups: The Double-Edged Sword
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Unlocking the Power of Out-GridView in PowerShell
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What's in my bag when I go to the office [April 2024 Edition]
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Navigating Open Spaces: Survival Guide for Neurodivergent Individuals
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How to Push All Branches from Command Line
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The Dilemma of Perfection: Balancing Timeliness and Quality in Product Development
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Decoding Startup Jargon: A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs
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How to Manage Variables Configuration in a PowerShell Project
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How Endel App Boosted My Productivity as a Developer and CTO
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How To Add Controllers To A Blazor Server App
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My Wrap Up of 2023: A Year of Growth and Recognition
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Keep Your Email out of Recipients’ Spam Folders
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How to Speak the Language of the Internet: A Introduction to the Most Common Network Protocols
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The Power of Atomic Commits in Git: How and Why to Do It
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How to retrieve sub properties in a PowerShell script with the Invoke-Expression method
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Fetching and Publishing Settings for Azure Functions with Azure Functions Core Tools Command Line
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Developers and Sherpas: A Mountainous Analogy
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Set up GitHub Codespaces for a .NET 8 application
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GitHub Codespaces: A Faster Way to Develop in the Cloud
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ESPC 2023: How to Spice Up Your Meetings with Microsoft Teams Meeting Extensions
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Why I love Monaspace font for coding
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Recap Codemotion 2023
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How to Release a Side Project as a Real Product
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How To Handle Microsoft Graph Paging in PowerShell
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How to avoid Microsoft Graph API throttling and optimize network traffic
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Azure Automation vs Azure Functions with Powershell
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Experts Live 2023 - My Recap
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What's in my bag for Experts Live Europe
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Building a Contact Form with Microsoft Azure and Blazor
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Setting up VS Code for C# development
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PowerShell: Turn Your Custom Objects into CSV Files (and vice versa) with a Snap of Your Fingers
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I’m Back on Twitch! Join Me for Live Coding, Learning, and Fun!
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Why You Should Attend Experts Live Europe 2023
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How to prevent the screen turn off after a while in Blazor
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Celebrating 10 Years as a Microsoft MVP 🎉
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Backend development is more than writing endpoints for frontend
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How to Clean Up Your Local Repository with Git Commands
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How to Boost Your Web Performance with HTML5 Features
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Safari 17 Beta: A Game Changer for PWAs on MacOS
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Visual Studio 2022: A New Way to Work with HTTP Requests and Responses
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Understanding and Using ConfigureAwait in Asynchronous Programming
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The Top 5 Best Takeaways from Microsoft Build 2023
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How to Write Better PowerShell Scripts: Architecture and Best Practices
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How to Unleash the Power of Multithreading in JavaScript with Web Workers
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How to Use Visual Studio Like a Pro When Presenting Your Code
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How to Use Promise.all and Promise.race to Speed Up Your JavaScript Code
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Async and Await in Vanilla JavaScript
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Create an Azure Function with PowerShell and Visual Studio Code
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How to Clean Up ASP.NET and Visual Studio Cache and Temp Files
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My LinkedIn Course "Learning GitHub" by numbers
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Debugging Multiple .NET Projects in VS Code
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Hackathon - Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET 🦒 - Submission Day!
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Displaying GitHub information on Elgato Streamdeck
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Hackathon - Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET 🦒 - Day 06
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Microsoft Ignite Spotlight on Switzerland - My experience at Ask The Experts table
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Hackathon - Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET 🦒 - Day 05
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Hackathon - Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET 🦒 - Day 04
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Hackathon - Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET 🦒 - Day 03
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Hackathon - Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET 🦒 - Day 02
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Hackathon - Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET 🦒 - Day 01
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Customizing Swagger in Azure Functions
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Update the HTML head from a Blazor component
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Accessing hidden Edge Features and Settings
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Using Elgato Stream Deck with Microsoft Teams
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Learning GitHub: a course
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Add or Change a license on GitHub
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Getting started with BenchmarkDotNet
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How to get base64 encoded string of a certificate in C#
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2022 - an year in review
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Auth0: implementing a device flow in a Console Application with .NET 7 - Part 2
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Auth0: implementing a device flow in a Console Application with .NET 7
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Tools I use every day
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A plugin for Insomnia to retrieve secrets from Azure Key Vault
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Change GitHub account on Windows
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Write to the console.log with styles from Blazor
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Code Metrics inside Visual Studio 2022
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Enabling and Disabling Logs in ASP.NET Core 6
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Getting started with GitHub CLI
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Generate Random Numbers with .NET 6
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Azure Portal Keyboard Shortcuts to improve the navigation experience (and speed it up)
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Look mum, I wrote a book about ASP.NET Minimal API and it will be released in October
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How to record a video for your app
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What’s in my bag when I go to the office (September 2022 Edition)
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Open Edge Developer Tools automatically by launching debug with Visual Studio 2022
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Clean up space on a .NET Developer Machine
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How to debug an Azure App Service with Visual Studio 2022
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Redis Hackathon - Placify
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Deploy a .NET 6 Web Application to an Azure App Service by the command line
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EasyCaching in a ASP.NET Core Minimal API project
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My Journey as LinkedIn Technical Instructor
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I have been awarded for 9 years in a row as Microsoft MVP
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Why I chose Auth0 for my startup
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Securing ASP.NET Core MVC 6 App - Add roles - Part 3
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Securing ASP.NET Core MVC 6 App - Add a profile page - Part 2
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.NET Project Folders Structure
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How to debug a Time Trigger Azure Function Locally
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Securing ASP.NET Core MVC 6 App - add authentication to the application - Part 1
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I just finished reading "Microsoft 365 Fundamental Guide" and this is my review
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Update & Sync GitHub Repositories in the morning
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Install Node Version Manager (NVM) without Admin Rights
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DevToys: A Swiss Army knife for developers
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Securing .NET 6 Minimal API with Auth0
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I just finished reading "Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0" and this is my review
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7 Command Prompts for Windows you must know
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I am officially an Auth0 Ambassador
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How to deploy multiple web apps on the same Azure App Service
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How to watch Star Wars in your terminal
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Create a class from a JSON in Visual Studio 2022
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How to take awesome screenshots of Azure Portal with Edge
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Best settings for Logitech Brio 4k
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My Visual Studio 2022 Settings
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Create a gitignore file with dotnet cli
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Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022
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Tools I use for my online sessions at events
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I am officially a Codemotion Ambassador
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Increasing the productivity with the same theme for Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code and Rider
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Securing a Blazor WebAssembly Hosted Apps with Azure Active Directory - Part 2
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Securing a Blazor WebAssembly Hosted Apps with Azure Active Directory - Part 1
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How to use Feature Flags in a Blazor Application
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Sennheiser HD 450BT review
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readme-generator: a global dotnet tool for your next project
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My 3 favourites Windows Apps from the Store (free)
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Drop all tables and reset an Azure SQL Database
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Azure Trial Hackathon - Moodflix - your mood, our suggestions
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Today I received my HacktoberFest 2021 SWAGS!
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My First 6 months at SoftwareONE
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Removing old version of .NET
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Show properties of an object during the debug
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Copying multiple code blocks together and paste them one by one
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Fix Blazor WebAssembly authorization bug on Azure
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10 websites to find a Web3 Job
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I am a GitHub Star ⭐
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Add Swagger to a Blazor 6 project
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Tips for working remotely
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First steps with WinGet
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5 easy tips for writing C# better
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How to Watch YouTube in Picture-in-Picture on Windows 11 with Microsoft Edge
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God Mode in Windows 11
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How I rebuilt my development machine(s) in 30 minutes
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Extend your Microsoft 365 Developer Tenant with your GitHub activities
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Review: Surface Laptop 4
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How to disable welcome message from Office 365 groups
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Access your local IIS Express ASP.NET Core application from the public web
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15 Google Extensions You Should Have
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How to create an awesome GitHub profile README
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A collection of my favorites DNS servers
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0365 CLI on Windows Terminal
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Use an Azure Function to clean up your Azure Resources
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Debug with Visual Studio using all browsers in incognito mode
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Disable footer on Office 365 Communication Sites
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Handle the Mac's sleep function from the terminal
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Turn on runtime compilation for modified views in ASP.NET Core
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The reason why I fell in love with Microsoft PowerToys
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Start, Restart and Stop Azure VM from Azure CLI
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From a Windows 10 clean installation to a Dev Environment in 30 minutes with Boxstarter
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Cascadia Code: a new font for Visual Studio Code and Terminal
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How to use PowerShell with Visual Studio Code like a Pro [2023 Edition]
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I released a new Visual Studio Code Extension for CSS files!
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My VS Code settings for Web Development
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Getting started with Azure Immersive Reader and ASP.NET Core
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How to customize the new Windows Terminal with Visual Studio Code
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Event tips and tricks: easily find connections on Linkedin
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What's in my bag for the European Collaboration Summit 2019
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The music I love to listen while I am coding
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Kubuntu: from 18.04 to 19.04
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What's in my bag when I work away from home
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Enable the dark theme on Chromium based Edge browser
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Introducing a new Visual Studio Code Theme: Retro Wave Junkie
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Top 5 Themes for Visual Studio Code
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A new way to contribute to Open Source Projects
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