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• SponsorLink: trying something new-ish for OSS sustainability

  Posted on January 24, 2023

  I would love to live in a world where open source developers can make a decent living from their (popular) passion projects. So I decided to try to build something on top of GitHub Sponsors that could enable a more streamlined experience for users and authors alike to connect and support each other. I call it SponsorLink and you can use it right now :) [Read More]

  Tags:

  • oss
  • github
  • sponsors
  • dotnet

• Reusing readme content across NuGet packages

  Posted on January 16, 2023

  Nowadays, the official NuGet gallery provides very nice looking rendering of a package readme (if provided). This post shows how to reuse readme content across multiple packages and your main project markdown files seamlessly. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • devops
  • github
  • actions
  • nuget
  • dotnet

• Azure DNS updater using Powershell and Azure CLI

  Posted on December 6, 2022

  Back in the day, if you had a machine with a dynamic IP and you needed to accesss it remotely, you’d just create a DynDNS account, download their app and it would keep your DNS record up to date. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • azure
  • powershell

• Smart libraries for .NET

  Posted on November 10, 2022

  In the .NET ecosystem, there’s been a slow emergence of what I like to call “smart libraries”: these are nuget packages that include additional behavior that “lights up” inside an editor that supports them, such as Visual Studio. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • nuget
  • roslyn

• Compile-time automatic dependency injection registrations for .NET

  Posted on September 26, 2022

  Minimal APIs bring a fresh and clean approach to developing APIs in (ASP).NET 6, with a focus on easy to read and minimal clutter coding. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • di
  • dotnet
  • aspnet

• How to avoid hiting GitHub API rate limits in CI workflows

  Posted on July 14, 2022

  I have a dependabot-like workflow I run on a schedule across many repos (it synchronizes arbitrary files across arbitrary repos using dotnet-file), which just recently failed since it hit the GitHub rate limit. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • devops
  • github

• Running headless Chromium in Azure Container Apps with Playwright

  Posted on June 29, 2022

  With the release of Azure Container Apps we now have a flexible alternative to Azure Functions that allows using the full power of ASP.NET Core in a fully serverless way that can scale down to zero when unused. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • container

• How to do Azure Functions Logging with DI

  Posted on March 10, 2022

  There is a bit of an unfortunate situation with Azure Functions’ ILogger implementation. To sumarize: the DI-injected ILogger<T> at the class level, won’t log to the Console by default, and even if you bump the logging level like so in host.json: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • functions

• Get owner and project name from GitHub Actions

  Posted on October 18, 2021

  Say you need to access a GitHub repository owner and project name, separately. We know GitHub Actions environment variables exposes this information as: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • github
  • actions
  • ci

• How to retry failing dotnet tests in GitHub Actions

  Posted on September 24, 2021

  TL;DR;: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • github
  • ci

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