MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Sometimes, especially when recording but also occasionally to get around website password-paste-protections, it's helpful to paste from your clipboard and have the text appear with a delay between each character as if it …
A key feature of GitHub is the ability to work repositories in order to contribute back to them. Until recently, there was no built-in way to keep a fork up to date with its upstream source repository. Now, there's …
When it's time to build that big new system to replace the aging old one, consider Gall's Law and the benefit of frequent feedback and evolutionary development.
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If a method you're writing throws exceptions under certain circumstances, such as through guard clauses or other expected conditions, be sure to write tests to verify this behavior. The xUnit test framework has great …
Docker compose can take a while to execute, especially for a large set of containers. Fortunately there's a way to take advantage of extra processors (and any extra bandwidth you may have) by running the build step in …
Want to compare how long a command takes to run with different parameters? Curious how long it takes a multi-step build/test script to run, overall? PowerShell has a command for that.
A lesson I learned early in my career - you don't need to micro-optimize as long as you have fast enough hardware.
A client I'm working with wanted a set of initial decisions and questions their team should address as they begin a new project. I did a bit of research, thinking surely such a list must exist already, but I didn't find …