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...

If the @valvesoftware.com #SteamMachine natively supported other game stores as well (GOG, Epic, Amazon Luna, etc.) it would be the easiest no-brainer purchase ever

Great example of vibe coding with the GitHub Copilot CLI. Lots of little tips and tricks mentioned/shown along the way. Not appropriate for all apps, but for small and proof of concept ones. Not always more productive, but a different workflow to be aware of.

Disappointed in the #VisualStudio #Copilot "Modernize" feature. Updated a small #Blazor app from .NET 8 to 10. Took 10+ minutes. It only updated the #dotnet & NuGet versions from 8 to 10 in csproj files. No code changes. Breaks at runtime. Tests fail. Report said "all good" 😕

Nice article on the state of native AOT with the release of .NET 10: code.soundaranbu.com/state-of-nat...

I'm going to try #CliffDiving with #PowerShell tonight. www.meetup.com/pacific-powe... Anyone else want to jump off the cliff? @steviecoaster.dev may have parachutes. Jump starts at 6 pm pacific time.

Created a visual notification designer and testing tool for the #BurntToast PowerShell module @toastit.dev . Design notifications with a GUI, test them instantly, then copy the #PowerShell command to use in your scripts! Still a work in progress. Might be a bad idea lol. github.com/hov172/BurnT...

You can finally select deleted text in the #vscode inline diff editor. I've been wanting this for YEARS! code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_1...

You might want to upgrade to #dotnet 10 if you're still on an earlier version...

OMG System.CommandLine 2.0.0 stable is finally out! www.nuget.org/packages/Sys...

FYI GitHub users. I’ve never used @ mentions in commit messages, but this makes sense to me. It could be days before I push a commit up to GitHub, and the notification could be invalid by then.

In a fun Friday exercise, I use #PowerShell to discover who uses emojis to react to #MicrosoftTeams messages. Not much business value, but a good example of how usefui audit data can be. office365itpros.com/2025/11/07/t... #Microsoft365

Look, I'm not saying you *need* a parachute to run #PowerShell scripts, but you should make the consumers of your code feel like they don't. Join me next Wednesday at the Pacific #PowerShell user group to learn about adding parameter validation to your scripts! It's PowerShell with Parachutes!

Seeing lots of reports of issues with recent #Windows updates. I’ll pile on and say the latest #Windows11 update broke the display drivers for my Lenovo W530 so it no longer recognizes external monitors. I’m curious what’s going on with the Windows QA department. Replaced by AI? 😛😅

Gotta love when a single #PowerShell command can safely `git clean -xfd` 277 #git repos and free up 55GB of space 😎 You can do the same. blog.danskingdom.com/Reclaim-disk...

This is probably my #1 favourite feature of using #PowerShell at work. It makes managing multiple servers so much easier 💪

OTEL and Observability tools are amazing. Does that mean you should stop writing good custom error messages though? I argue no. Read why: blog.danskingdom.com/Should-obser...

Not sure who needs to hear this, but a reminder to keep an eye on your cloud costs. I had availability (ping) tests set up for 3 websites, and it cost almost $100/month. I never noticed because (luckily) it's never gone over my free monthly credits. After cleanup, my new #Azure bill is $13/month

For more PowerShell resources, check the Top 50 PowerShell blogs list from Feedly! (Yes, I'm a big RSS feed fan!) And... I'm number 15 there, didn't know I was on that list :-D feedly.com/i/top/powers... #PowerShell #Blogs

Learning keyboard shortcuts can make you more productive and improve your day-to-day efficiency. Here are some of my favourite #Windows shortcuts. Let me know if I missed any of yours! blog.danskingdom.com/My-favourite...

If you're a #VisualStudio user, consider upvoting this feature suggestion to add a keyboard shortcut for quickly jumping to the start/end of code/JSON blocks and HTML/XML tags. VS Code has it already. developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Add-Keyboa...

Big #dotnet news, the STS (Standard Term Support) releases are now supported for 24 months! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne...

Registered for my 2nd in-person MS MVP Summit. Psyched to get to do it again 😊 If you're an MVP, register before it fills up! #MVPBuzz

nuget trusted publishing from GitHub actions is rolling out. No more api keys needed to publish from your release process. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...

Welcome to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... I haven't posted much for a while as I've been heads down working with the Visual Studio team to deliver all the performance and other goodness in this one.

File-based C# apps & support for stdin to `dotnet run -` makes it incredibly easy to check behavior of APIs in .NET 10!

While a bit vulgar, this post does a good job showing what can be done with plain HTML (eg colour and date pickers) and can be a good reminder that you don’t always need to start each project with a framework like React or Vue.

⚡ Start your week strong: share your knowledge with the PowerShell + DevOps community! 👉 Submit your session idea before Aug 31. sessionize.com/pshsummit26/ Tag someone who needs to get theirs in too! 💬 #PSHSummit26

Unions are included in next year's C# 15 theme ("Particularly for highly requested topics like unions, please keep in mind: we'll get there when we get there.") github.com/dotnet/cshar...

If you find #GitHub #Copilot interrupts your flow while writing code in #VisualStudio, you can now disable it. Go to Tools → Options → IntelliCode → General → Automatically generate code completions in the Editor and uncheck it. Instead, use Alt+, or Alt+. to generate code completions on demand.

Join us this Wednesday at the Pacific #PowerShell User Group as @joshooaj.com talks about adding telemetry to your scripts. The party starts Wednesday night @ 6pm pacific time. 🤞see you there! www.meetup.com/pacific-powe...

Do you often find a new CLI tool on Github, go to releases, find the right binary, download, unzip, put them somewhere ... Check out FromGithub Works cross-platform, finds the right binary for the OS where it's running. You can re-run it to update. www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Fro...

The 2025 StackOverflow #developer survey is out: survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ Seeing Notepad++ as the 3rd most popular #dev IDE has me really questioning the validity of these surveys 🙃

With new C# versions coming out every year, it's easy to forget about or overlook some features from past releases. This blog gives a nice quick recap of many of them. #dotnet #csharp blog.elmah.io/lesser-known...

Friendly reminder to update your #git periodically. The latest patch fixes quite a few security vulnerabilities. On Windows, you can likely easily update to the latest version by running the command: winget upgrade Git.Git github.blog/open-source/...

I use draw.io for all of my diagrams / flowcharts. It’s great because it’s FREE and it saves the metadata as part of the svg/png, so you can always edit the image without having to have it saved somewhere else in a different format. Great product.

Aw yeah

#AzureDevOps YAML pipelines now allow you to see the complete YAML of a pipeline run. This makes it so much easier to debug problems, as it includes the YAML of all referenced templates and also shows all parameter values. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

If you hold CTRL, it will pause Task Manager so the processes don't move around when you're sorted by resource usage

New release of AzBobbyTables out, the #PowerShell module for all of your #Azure Storage Table needs! Apart from some dependency upgrades, a new type conversion system is in place to allow for inputs of either Hashtables, PSObject or (new!) SortedLists 🥳 www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AzB...

Not my usual type of post, but if you like video games, check these out for great free games: gaming.amazon.com/home (requires Amazon Prime, new games every week or 2) store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-g... (new games every week or 2) www.gog.com/en/ (free game every few weeks) A few more in 🧵

Why choose native over web? Because performance matters! 💻⚡ @devolutions.net is committing $3M to @avaloniaui.net to secure the future of cross-platform native desktop UI in Remote Desktop Manager 🚀 👇 blog.devolutions.net/2025/07/devo...