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Using NuGet Pre-release versions for local development

Does your company maintain separate source code repositories for shared libraries? For instance, do you have a models library on github that builds and publishes to nuget.org? When you need to make a change to your main project, that uses these nuget packages, which in turn also requires changes to be made to the library, how can you test it …

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Visual Studio Code and Azure DevOps Artifacts

Are you using or wanting to use Visual Studio Code for work? Is your company using Azure DevOps and making use of private Artifact Feeds? If yes, you’ll need some setup in order to be able to authenticate successfully. Visual Studio 2019 has a convenient built in way of doing this, VS Code does not. If you’ve already been using …

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Google Domains and Google Cloud Platform

So, you’ve got a domain from Google Domains. You also have a site you want to run on Google Cloud Platform. I encountered this same situation after transferring one of my domains to Google Domains and wanting to hook it up to a site I had set up on GCP. This one as a matter of fact! I had found …

Smart Home

In my previous post, I had mentioned that I have several Google Home Minis throughout my house. That is to say, I have a Mini in basically every room, aside from the bathrooms. It started modestly enough, with a single speaker, but then quickly became a full on Smart Home solution. I feel like most everyone must have the same …

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Google Pixel Buds

I’ve had a few pair of headphones that I’ve stuck with over the years, the over ear style headphones. I have a pair of Skullcandy that I used for general music and audio, you know, when phones still had a headphone jack. I also have a pair of wireless gaming headphones that I use for work and video calls and …

Visual Studio Code

Where I work, we’re pretty much a Microsoft shop. Meaning, most of our code is .NET Core, we use Visual Studio Enterprise, MS SQL Server, and Azure. More recently we’ve transitioned from TFS source control to all git repositories. That brings with it the use of pull requests as opposed to the traditional code reviews from within Visual Studio. Coding …

Home Office

As I have mentioned in the past, I’ve been a remote worker for several years now. Just over a year and a half ago now, I bought a town house and made one of the bedrooms my home office. This is the first time I’ve had a true separate space for just such use. Maybe it’s something to do with …

Quarantine Project

I’ve been a remote worker for some time now. Over the years I had been considering getting a standing desk. Finally, after much research watching YouTube videos of desk setups and looking at offerings from popular companies, I decided what I wanted. I ended up going with a kind of DIY solution, purchasing an adjustable frame, and using a separately …