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A simple example of using an Observable in F#
A spreadsheet with a priority queue might be the least expensive and most effective way to build software rapidly.
Accreditted Computer Science Courses of Personal Interest
Add a Nuget source from the command line
Add TypeScript Definition Files to the NPM Types Organization
Agile software development requires technical excellence
Allow VSCode through WSL Firewall
Anger Management for Software Developers
Architecting Large Scale Software Systems
Async throw-away fire-and-forget with C#.NET
At what point does a professional software developer need to say "no" instead of continuing to do what the client requires?
Attach VS Code to dotnet test
info.title is missing when running from a LIVE app but not from localhost
Avoid Leaving PowerShell Side-Effects on the Pipeline
Bash commands that are helpful to me on a daily basis and which I initially found difficult to use
Bash Kata on Ubuntu > 16.04
Bill Gates is mistaken about divestment in fossil fuels - he is not numeric enough about the paradigm shifting impact.
PowerShell and Git to Capitalize all the Files in a Directory on Windows
Championing Psychological Health and Safety as an Individual Contributor at the Workplace
Change the base of a topic branch
Classes vs Structs in C#.NET
Clear your VS Code User Session
Combine git, sort, and tail to view the most changed files.
Considerations for C#.NET code formatting in a distributed microservice application that spans multiple Git repositories.
Converting Markdown to HTML and/or ODT format
Copy large files over a Windows Remote Desktop Connection from a terminal.
Copy to clipboard from NodeJS
COVID-19 reentry scenarios
CQRS/ES and DDD: Some Frequently Asked Questions
Current Side Projects as of January 2019
Data Transfer Object (Dto) Type Wrapper in TypeScript.
Debug an IIS Express web application from VS Code.
Deploying a Custom Read the Docs Install to an Azure App Service
Check whether two C# builds result in binaries that are functionally identical (within reasonable limits).
DevOps Praxis
Disable VSCode Version Control Integration
Do not put console.log into version control or production.
dotnet restore, build, and run without an Internet connection
dotnet watch run usage examples
ECMA Script Modules and Module Loading in the Browser
Enable long paths in Windows with PowerShell
Encrypting Azure Function appsettings.json for storage in version control
Error handling with an Either type in TypeScript.
export default vs export in TypeScript
Expose Kestrel directly to the Internet
Files changed on GitHub differs from the result of git diff master
filter undefined and null values from an array while still satisfying TypeScript's strict null checks.
Find the instructions for transferring a domain name from Google Suite to a different registrar
Find your business in British Columbia by business name or business number.
The A method for evaluating a potential employer.
Fixing the Surface Pro 4 Internal Microphone with Windows 10
For me, quality code is not about love of the craft, quality code is in service of long-term feature delivery velocity.
From CoffeeScript to TypeScript
GetEnumerator and GetAsyncEnumerator both return a new instance of an enumerator.
Getting started with Beamer for LaTeX slide presentations
git clean with multiple exclude patterns
Output the number of Git commits a person made each day of the year in bash.
git config core.autocrlf
Git: List the files you have worked on in the last week
Git log to help with reporting hours on timesheets
Git rebase a range of commits onto a new base starting a HEAD and excluding upstream.
git rebase --strategy with -Xours
Go (kinda) zen mode with Visual Studio
Handling the perpetual problem re: time spent improving code quality vs time spent creating new features... in a way that fosters career satisfaction and engagement.
He/they from my perspective as a middle aged, privileged white male living in Western Canada
A realistic and encouraging way of thinking for staff at a company that is working at 100% capacity.
Hide the ReSharper Build & Run Window
High-level notes on Azure ARM Templates
High level notes on @font-face in CSS.
High-level notes on project.json to csproj
How do you practice your performance?
How I tend to do salary negotiation when interviewing as an employee.
How is it possible that the default implementations of Haskell's Bifunctor first and second compose?
How to name boolean returning functions and methods?
How to use PowerShell to release a locked Windows port?
How to retry a Jenkins build?
How we do code review at BigFont
Humble notes after five weeks migrating an existing domain driven design to CQRS/ES
Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS)
I have started formatting code locally with csharpier for my own READ mode during local development.
JavaScript Module Systems: ECMA, AMD, CommonJS, NodeJS
import m = require("m") vs import * as m from "m"
Install a LetsEncrypt SSL Certificate into an Azure App Service
Install and use StyleCop in a .NET or .NET Core project from the command line (without needing your whole team to do the same).
Install Node/NPM in the Linux Subsystem for Windows
Interactive .NET Experiences Online
Just don't hit on people you find attractive
Keep my free Google Apps with a custom domain while using the same domain with Proton Mail
Khan Academy: Asymptotic Notation
Legitimate uses of undefined in JavaScript
List all the keyboard shortcuts that are available in PowerShell.
List git branches with the date and author of the last commit
PowerShell: List TCP Connections for a Process
C# local functions as explanatory variables
MSCI World Index
My answers to common "cultural fit" interview questions...
My Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions
My Firefox Add-Ons: LastPass and Tree Style Tab
.NET Core - What do all the versions mean?
.NET structs never have reference equality
Notes on Joel Spolsky's blog post on character encodings
Notes on Vim's native package manager
Online Pilates Resources
Our Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts / Hot Keys
We have been developing our do-it-yourself rainwater catchment system for about six years.
"Pair documenting" might produce higher quality documentation.
Parse jest --json test output with jq
Permanently modify an environmental variable from PowerShell
PowerShell One-Liner: insert a space between each capital letter; convert PascalCase to Pascal Case
Powershell: Trim trailing whitespace from all files recursively
Practical tips on using the Linux subsystem on Windows
Project estimation services BigFont provides
Push and pull files between Windows 10 and WSL2 file systems with Git.
Receiving a refund from LeetCode with the help of the Better Business Bureau
Red dots between characters in Firefox Developer Tools
Reducing the chance of TCP port exhaustion on a Windows Server.
Rename Symbol vs Change All Occurances
ReSharper Code Inspection from the Command Line
ReSharper: Exclude all C# projects from analysis
ReSharper Code Cleanup from the Command Line
Run a specific VS Code Launch Configuration from the Command Palette.
Run an ASP.NET 4.x website from the command line with IIS Express
Run Docker from the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Search and download Azure Function Application Logs from PowerShell
Short guide on a code commenting style, written by someone who is skeptical of its value, is terrible at writing that style of code comments, and despite that, is willing to learn how to write them the way a team has elected to write them.
Finding (searching for) things with Git
Serve PHP files from the command line in Windows
Seven (Magic) Tricks for a Successful Software Development Career
Shortcuts for Windows 10 Multiple Desktops
Simple Example of Using the Browser's History API
Social Skills for Software Developers
Software Testing Strategies and Canonical Names
Some Career-Related Ultimate Goals for 2017
Some Career Related Ultimate Goals for 2018
Some of my note-taking shorthand for software development
Some points and quotes in favor of trunk-based development taken from books, blogs, blikis from industry experts.
Answering some questions from a new BCIT Software Systems Developer graduate.
Open-SSH commands that are helpful to me on a regular basis
Stack vs Heap
Stand on the shoulders of style-guide genius
Starting HTBox AllReady Web App Development
Starting with Bitcoin
Starting with Docker on Ubuntu in WSL 2 without Docker Desktop
Starting with WSL 2
Streamline SSH with Git for Windows
String index signatures let us restrict the types that an object can contain.
Swashbuckle.SwaggerUi with OpenIddict and Bearer Tokens
Tab completion in Ubuntu Bash (in WSL)
TagHelper Structure
Task: On a dark night, use a flashlight to find a diamond ring that fell into a pothole on a road that has several potholes.
Temporarily mute/hide a specific user in a channel in the Slack web interface.
The classic mistake of keeping a throwaway prototype
The power of ES 2017 (es8) in TypeScript even with NodeJS 6.11.0
Checklist for the Spiral Software Development Lifecycle Model (or How to Spiral into Control)
These are Git commands that I actually use on a regular basis, somewhat in the order of frequency that I use them.
Things that I usually suggest to my software teams that would probably make my team's go faster.
Things we have personally done to mitigate, adapt, and shift the paradigm during the climate crisis.
this in functions, arrow functions, class methods, and class arrow function properties
To pieces of incredibly useful and free screen capture software that work on Window
Trim Trailing Whitespace from All Files in a Directory
TypeScript class vs interface vs type
TypeScript constructor parameters with public, private, and protected
typescript import and export organization
TypeScript module resolution fundamentals
Ubuntu 16 in Hyper-V on Windows 10 with .NET Core
Simple Fetch API Example
Navigating bash's native grep results with the Vim quickfix list.
Update a forked GitHub repository from its source
Upgrade from Azure Ghost 0.x.x to Ghost 2.x.x
Use a regular expression in VS Code's find/replace to replace && with JavaScript's optional chaining
Use async in a method that has nothing to await
Use Git Large File Storage (LFS) in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 1)
Use GoCD to deploy a single Docker image to DigitalOcean
Use MSBuild and/or VSTest from the command line to run unit tests
Use PowerShell to inspect project.json properties across directories
Use ssh to run a local script with arguments on a remote host.
Using Graphical User Interfaces in WSL2
Using the Windows 10 Linux subsystem
Vim: Clear trailing whitespace
Vim: execute the current file
Vim: Find in Files, The Basics
Vim Substitution (Find/Replace) with Capture Groups (Placeholders)
Vim with C#.NET Core and OmniSharp-Roslyn on Windows
Visual Studio ReSharper Performance for Large Solutions
VS Code's markdown highlighting stopped working in JavaScript/TypeScript comments.
VSTS Test Coverage with Mocha, Istanbul, NYC, Coburtura and Junit
What connection string do we use to connect the Azure Cosmos DB Data Migration Tool to the Cosmos DB Emulator?
What did we git today?
What do you mean when you say JWT?
What does [keyof T] do at the end of a type = {} declaration?
What if the team makes a "bad" decision despite advice to the contrary?
What is a .NET Mutex?
What kinds of mental health practitioners exists in Canada? When is each appropriate?
What was it like working a four day work week for two-and-a-half years?
When do we add comments to our code?
When using TypeScript and streams in NodeJS, use the stream.Stream type until there is reason to use a wider type.
Why avoid static methods?
Why code-first with migrations instead of database-first?
Why do you write to console instead of using a debugger?
Windows 10 Performance Tip #1
Windows 10 Setup First Steps