GridWatch v0.28.0 — From Side Project to Daily Driver
It started with curiosity, now I can't live without it A few months back I wrote about building GridWatch — a desktop dashboard for GitHub Copilot CLI...
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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 histo...
Going fullstack with Nx monorepo using C# and React
Introduction Recently, I’ve been using the Nx monorepo framework quite extensively—but purely for frontend React projects. I’d always thought of Nx as...
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 inte...
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 a...
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 whic...
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 stap...
.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 terminal was released. Incorporating WSL (Windows Subsystem...
GatsbyJS SEO and Open Graph with Helmet
I recently recreated my blog in GatsbyJs, you can download a template of it here gatsby-techblog-starter. In the joy of sharing its simplicity to the...
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 T...
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 (usu...
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...