Building GridWatch — A Dashboard for GitHub Copilot CLI Sessions
Introduction If you've been using GitHub Copilot CLI, you'll know it stores a surprising amount of data locally — session metadata, conversation hist...
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Going fullstack with Nx monorepo using C# and React
Introduction Recently, I’ve been using the Nxhttps://nx.dev/ monorepo framework quite extensively—but purely for frontend React projects. I’d always...
Electron & New Relic Integration Using Open Telemetry
Introduction Recently I encountered a scenario where I needed to integrate New Relic into my Electron application. New Relic supports a number of int...
Why every developer needs to use Obsidian
As a engineer learning new languages, tools frameworks etc is just part and parcel of the job. Over time the spectrum of knowledge a full stack engine...
How to Deconstruct objects in C# like we do in Javascript
I've been using C for about a decade now, and every now and again I discover something that surprises me. This week it's the ability to deconstruct as...
ASP.NET GraphQL server with Hot Chocolate
Starting my journey with GraphQL Up till now, I've always heavily relied on RESTfull services to power API's, this recently got widened with GRPC whi...
Adding environments to ASP.NET Core with React.js SPA
Recently I started working on a project that was created from the ASP.NET SPA template for react. It's one of the templates you get by default with do...
My journey of creating a .NET CLI tool
Why I started building a CLI As a .NET engineer, I work with Azure storage a lot, its versatility, ease of use, as well as cost makes it a common sta...
.NET & GRPC What they forgot to tell you
As an engineer, I have always had a heavy reliance on REST'ful API's for passing information between applications. With the introduction of open API s...
Evolving your Windows Terminal using Powershell libraries
As a windows user the terminal experience has always been lacking, up till the new windows terminalhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/windows-terminal/...
GatsbyJS SEO and Open Graph with Helmet
I recently recreated my blog in GatsbyJs, you can download a template of it here gatsby-techblog-starterhttps://github.com/faesel/gatsby-techblog-star...
Creating my dream tech blog with GatsbyJS
I'm someone who's always had my own tech blog, I've gone through two revisions already with the last revision updating out of a 1997 style book. How m...
Making a Azure poison queue Slack notifier
I'm currently working at a place were we are using queue triggered Webjobs to handle the sending of messages like email and SMS using Send Grid and Tw...
Fix poor project structure with Convention Based Programming
Having looked at a number of projects in my lifetime, I always come across classes named something like "CustomerService" with similar variations usua...
Splitting NUnit Unit Tests With TeamCity To Decrease CI Time
This is a quick guide on how to split unit tests into different categories to decrease the time it takes for your CI build to run. The categories can...