🎭⚡ Playwright tests… but in the cloud. No infra. No setup drama. Just hit run and watch your UI + API tests fly on cloud‑hosted browsers. Spin up a workspace, plug in your project, hit go in #VisualStudio or #VSCode, and boom—cloud‑powered testing. 👉 buff.ly/GYY9fDK

A nice reinforcement that AI tools are an accelerator and the quality of the code they generate depends on the person using them. The human in the loop still very much matters. Competent engineers can use AI tools to move faster without generating slop.

I appreciate that MS #Teams shows how many people have already joined the meeting before I join. It allows me to avoid joining when there's only 1 other person and having to make small talk until others join on days when I'm not feeling chatty.

It takes very little effort to incorporate the pwshSpectreConsole module into your #PowerShell daily routine.

TIL after years of using Git: git archive Creates clean zip snapshots of your repo without: 🚫 node_modules 🚫 virtual environments 🚫 .git metadata My 180MB folder → 14MB. Perfect for uploading codebases to ChatGPT/Claude. youtu.be/WaZkdLRZubM

After procrastinating for 2 years, my blog finally supports dark mode. GitHub Copilot was a big help. I also cut the ads waaaaaaay down. Now I can focus on creating content again. blog.danskingdom.com

The GitHub Copilot SDK is here 🙌 You can take the same Copilot agentic core that powers GitHub Copilot CLI and embed it in any application, with just a few lines of code. github.com/github/copil...

Looking to learn #CSharp or #Postgresql? Grab Dometrain's Learn C# From Scratch course (free for life) and Learn Postgresql course (14-day free trial). Explanations, examples, objectives, and a sandbox, all in your browser. dometrain.com/course/hands... dometrain.com/course/hands...

I'm really digging the #Copilot CLI lately for troubleshooting issues in the terminal. It helped me solve a couple docker build/run issues today. Install it on Windows with `winget install GitHub.Copilot`, then type `copilot` to launch it and you're off 🚀 github.com/features/cop...

Hey #PowerShell people: Join us tomorrow night for a special presentation about sandboxed PowerShell in the browser: www.meetup.com/research-tri... We'll be doing an interactive show and tell about #Turtle 🐢 and other #Reptiles 🦎, and talking about #edutech. Be there or be 🐢 square!

I'm surprised how many devs don't use a #markdown linter. Nearly every time I open someone's .md, my linter has squiggles everywhere. It usually still renders correctly though, so does it really matter? Debating just uninstalling my linter. Do you lint? marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

Did you know Windows 11 has an option to end tasks right from the taskbar? 👀 So you don't need to open task manager - you can just right click the app and end it from there

There seems to be an ongoing supply chain attack or suspicious activity on NuGet .org, where a user called darklord is trying to gain legitimacy or something by sending thousands of become owner of their packages requests, don't accept, report to @nuget.org #dotnet #nuget

Visual Studio extension to work with the .github folder and manage GitHub and CoPilot files including integration with awesome-copliot repo for templates, by Mads Kristensen: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

I finally found my favorite git client. It’s fast. It let’s me do all the things I do frequently. It’s all keyboard driven. It’s a terminal app. It’s:

Introducing Oh My Posh Visual Configurator: Finally, a Drag-and-Drop Terminal Theme Builder! | by James Montemagno buff.ly/aBJwrk3 #powershell #commandline #ohmyposh #terminal

Still working in #TFVC source control? Check out my Diff All Files #VisualStudio extension to speed up reviewing changes before checking them in. Now updated to work with Visual Studio 2026. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

Still in experimental mode, but WinGet Studio aims to apply IaC to your local machine as an easy way to ensure all of the apps you want are installed. Should make formatting or setting up a new PC a bit easier. www.idontlikeai.dev/getting-star...

iPhone user. My default browser is Edge. A follower told me my blog blog.danskingdom.com has too many ads. I thought that was weird, since I never see ads. Turns out they were right! #Edge and #Brave block ads by default. #Chrome, #Google, #Safari, and #Firefox don't. What browser do you use?

That Invoke-WebRequest security update (#KB5074596) breaking your scripts? A basic search for -UseBasicParsing won't catch code that uses properties like Forms or AllElements - those don't exist anymore. I wrote ScriptAnalyzer rules that find both issues. Try it out, let me know what I missed.

Just discovered a #Slack QoL feature. If you have a URL in your clipboard, you can select text in your message and paste to make it a hyperlink. No need to use Ctrl+Shift+U or click the Link button before pasting the URL anymore 😎

EPIC just dropped Hogwarts Legacy for free on PC: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/hogw... #videogames

Get your PowerShell fix! PowerShell Weekly for December 12, 2025 is now live. Packed with Announcements, Articles, Projects, and Event updates for IT pros. Dive in! #PowerShell #Automation #TechNews psweekly.dowst.dev?p=8476

If you notice some of your automated scripts stop working correctly after installing Windows updates, this could be why.

Looking to kill some time? Check out floor796.com and see how many of your favourite references you can find. Click on characters you don’t know to see where they are from. Some scenes potentially NSFW

Is it just me or does it seem like modern tech is broken. I can’t edit scheduled #Slack messages from mobile. I can’t edit #Alexa alarms from the iOS app (have to delete and recreate). And these have been broken for months! Please dogfood your own apps

Not being able to paste into a password field is the worst. It makes the app LESS secure, as it encourages short, easy-to-remember (and type) passwords. Please ensure your apps allow pasting passwords.

New CSS features in 2025: chrome.dev/css-wrapped-...

Learn about the Windows Registry while tapping your foot (sound on) 😄: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMAB...

Great short blog post by @damirscorner.com about getting #PowerShell autocompletions with many common CLIs, such as git, dotnet, docker, npm, winget, etc. www.damirscorner.com/blog/posts/2...

I’m surprised since security is typically a top priority for MS. I wonder if #GitHub Actions were already in place before the acquisition and MS just never audited them. Hopefully they address this soon.

Good news for #webdev and #PowerShell people: I've created a little educational module "Servers101" github.com/PowerShellWe... It's a collection of simple servers written in pure PowerShell. Hopefully this helps everyone see how simple servers can be.

Do you maintain a collection of reusable GitHub Copilot prompt files? I've started building my own with a script to copy them to VSCode user profile paths, such that they become available with /<prompt-name> in all of my projects: github.com/awakecoding/...

EPIC is giving away Jackbox Party Pack 4 right now, just in time for the holidays 🎄. Could make for fun times at the family gathering 🙂 #videogames #freebies store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-g...

The Logitech MX Master 3s has been my favourite mouse for years. I upgraded to the MX Master 4. I liked it, but ended up returning it and shared my thoughts here, in case you're considering it too. blog.danskingdom.com/Logitech-MX-...

I don't know who needs to hear this (other than my wife 😅): When emailing a link, put it in the body, not the subject line. You can't click links in the email subject!

Love that #Spotify gave #podcast stats this year 🙂. I typically listen on my daily outdoor jogs. I don’t listen/jog as often in winter tho and already miss it. Jogging on a treadmill just isn’t the same. Anyhow, these are great tech podcasts to learn and laugh with.

One of my favourite overlooked #VisualStudio features is using the editor status bar to change Spaces to Tabs. Can also change CRLF <-> LF, and file encoding too.

If you use a single #GitHub account for both personal and work, you can customize your email notifications so that personal repo notifications go to your personal email, and work repo notifications go to your work email. You can configure it at github.com/settings/not...

Amazing! Free Code Signing for Open Source software signpath.org

New blog post - Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions www.hanselman.com/blog/automat...

You can do the same in Slack too 😊 I use this all the time when working in the evenings so people don't feel they need to check their IM/email after-hours

I’m not a sys admin, so I’ve never had to do this. I suspect that many of my followers are tho (and my future self may need to), so here you go.

I never realized that .md was now a TLD (Top Level Domain). The guy who registered ReadMe.md is going to make bank (or at least earn a head nod from many developers). Disclaimer: Don’t click links there. It’s most likely a scam. 🤷‍♂️

Great info about msbuild options I didn’t even know existed. If you regularly run into “file locked by another process” or “cannot access file” issues when building, check this out.

There’s no “correct” way to load the dishwasher, but there’s definitely there’s incorrect ways. I’ll never understand people who stack plates/bowls/cups as if they’re in the cupboard. You know who you are 😛

@microsoft.com #Windows should look at hiring Dave Plummer back as a consultant to help them get people to love Windows (or at least hate it less). Tons of great points in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTpA...

Not as relevant in the age of Slack/Teams, but email is still a big part of many organizations. Prevent your emails from spawning giant Reply All threads by using the BCC field. blog.danskingdom.com/stop-your-em...

One of the few shortcuts I didn't know about; probably because it's new to Windows 11. Added to my blog post. Thanks Jen! blog.danskingdom.com/My-favourite...