C# Generics Best Practices
C# Generics have been around since 2005, but a few new features have been added over the years, along with a bunch of built-in classes that leverage the feature. This article provides an overview of my latest Pluralsight …
Blog Posts
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.
What If Product Owners Reported to Dev Teams?
In most organizations, if there's a Product Owner, the dev team is generally subservient to it and charged with building whatever the Product Owner comes up with. That's not to say they aren't often " on the same team", …
VS Code Disable Logging Loading Symbols
When you run a VS Code dotnet app by default it will add a bunch of noise to the console about loading symbols. I got tired of searching for how to disable this over and over again so here's a quick tip on this article.
Use AutoHotKey to Paste Text as Typing
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 …
GitHub Fetch Upstream Branch
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 …
Simple Systems and Gall's Law
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.
Add ImgBot to your GitHub Repository
Spend less time worrying about optimizing your images for your blog, README, etc. and leave it to this simple but helpful bot. Free for open source.
Testing Exceptions with xUnit and Actions
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 …
Speed Up Docker Compose with Parallel Builds
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 …
How to measure elapsed time of command line tools using PowerShell
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.