#Tools

I'm a huge fan of ripgrep. And that's not an exaggeration. It's literally my number one used tool on the terminal. So, to learn something new about it makes...

I don't recall pulling up my Git Wrapped before, but I saw someone link theirs today, so I decided to check it out. You can see mine at...

I'm a longtime fan of JetBrains tooling... I've been using them since at least 2007 (see my first post about TDD where I first mention ReSharper). Today, my...

Last year, I started a renewed effort to use Obsidian and I've stuck with it - in fact, I haven't missed a day to get at least a short bullet journal post up....

Over the last few years, I've been experimenting with some of the various note taking tools. I've used OneNote, Evernote, Notion, Obsidian and LogSeq. I've...

I'd like to share how I manage my dotfiles. Are you familiar with dotfiles? According to the Arch Linux wiki: [dotfiles are] user-specific application...

RSS - Really Simple Syndication. It's been a staple of my learning since the early 2000s, even before Google Reader. I was an early user of RSS Bandit before I...

If your career is anything like mine, you've dealt with a wide array of various code bases across multiple technologies. Some web, some client, etc. With...

If you've been working with the .NET Framework for a while, you're hopefully already using some form of static analysis to help you catch problems with your...

This morning, I had my annual eye appointment and I completely forgot that they might dilate my eyes. Of course, my appointment was also scheduled first thing...

Back in January, Gaston Milano posted a sort of wishlist for the next version of Visual Studio. One of the features he wanted was the ability to filter...

I know many people have seen the excellent Cropper tool for grabbing screenshots. I found another tool very similar to it by the maker of TaskSwitchXP called...