The Daily Friction

No more exporting Environment Variable Values Next month, the default experience will no longer export environment variable values in your solution. This makes it easier to follow best practices and avoid inadvertent mistakes. A new “Export value” toggle within the...

Can you trust an employee to make a photocopy? Imagine my surprise when I was renewing my visa in Malaysia. They had a unique rule. Civil servants couldn't photocopy my passport. The reason? Let's not go there. All I knew was I was left to my own devices. So, burdened...

Remove Approval steps! I always hear that they are really needed. Really? Give more trust to the employee. Trust that the employee does the right thing for the customer and the company. What if it goes wrong? What is the worst case scenario that could happen? What is...

Some Canvas Apps shouldn't exist! I encounter countless Canvas Power Apps that implement parts of processes. Their magic lies in their ability to polish specific use cases in the quest of process optimization. Yet, there's a dark side to this digital revolution that's...

🧐 How to keep Account lean in Dataverse? Inheritance is not so useful in the OOP realm! 💥Bold statement, but why? Inheritance has a rigid structure, a strict hierarchy that proves difficult to change. Often you need to adjust the full or part of the inheritance...

💡Tip: Why not use dotnet user-secrets for local dev team? The question arises often, but it's not team-friendly in an active codebase. Why? When secrets are added or altered, everyone must be informed of new keys/values. Onboarding means transferring user secrets...

Four stages to automation: 🗑️ The Reclaim Stage Dispose of the activities yielding minimal outcomes. You may need to remove unnecessary apps from your phone or reluctantly say goodbye to less fruitful clients. 📑 The Document Stage Create a written Standard Operating...

💡 Fun fact: The journey is more important than the goal. Never spend 6 minutes doing something twice... when you could waste 6 hours failing to automate it.

Ever thought about your best subscription? Here's mine: YouTube Premium. 🎥 Why? It's my go-to for News, Learning, Entertainment - you name it. I ditched the TV troupes nine years ago and never looked back. 📺👋 Anything worthwhile makes its way to YouTube. Podcasts?...

You need a customer service portal? Think again! Simply enabling customers to generate support tickets isn't the game-changer you might think it is. More ticket-creation channels sound appealing, right? But the reality is different. If your customers have to bounce...

.NET 8 launched with .NET Aspire. When you create a distributed cloud app, you have a lot of moving parts and technologies to cope with. You create all kinds of supporting code and configuration to start your services correctly and connect all endpoints together. You...

.NET Blazor SSR looks very promising I was not so into Blazor client-side, I didn't see it as a proper alternative to existing JavaScript frameworks, like React. But I didn't like these JavaScript frameworks. For most websites it is overkill. Most websites needed only...