The Daily Friction

This time it's going to work: Papa! My first word of my son was 'apple'. Now tutoring my little daughter of 9 months to say 'papa' (daddy) as her first word. Using the heavy guns for this: Letting her listen to the songfestival 'Europapa' song on repeat!

Imagine if every microservice gave insights. And that every piece of code would do generate these insights in the same way? Could you link one service call to another service call because they share the same logging schema with a parent id? That is what OpenTelemetry...

When to create a Custom Activity? I'm always very reluctant to create Custom Activities. They come with a lot of bagage. Their stretch is excessively big, creating a lot of relations in all kinds of entities. Once you create a Custom Activity it's kind of permanent:...

Five myths about .NET and C# Why is .NET not popular with startups? This was a question asked on Reddit, where the main theme in the answers was a lot of legacy thinking around C# and .NET. 1️⃣ Only for Windows From .NET 5 and up .NET is multi-platform. It can build...

You hate doing Sales? Picture the pushy car salesperson who breathes down your neck. No one aspires to be that. Is that what sales is to you? It used to be for me 🤔. It's time to shatter that stereotype ❌. The first shift in perspective? Not every call has to...

Don't use /> in HTML 🚫! I always thought I needed to close HTML tags properly, even for tags like <br/>🏷️. It was in the hype around 2000s when the idea was that XHTML was the future. I was one of the first to pick this up and try to make my web pages...

Playing with Microsoft Kiota I needed to create a strong typed client in C# based on a OpenAPI or Swagger definition. I like these generated models, it makes programming to a API in C# so much easier. Previously I always went for Azure AutoRest. But Microsoft Kiota is...

Small, Daily Steps to Success! Success isn't birthed from grand, one-time events. It's the result of consistent, everyday actions. For instance, reading 10 pages daily trumps consuming a book in one go. This principle applies to fitness, relationships and business...

Is Campaign still being used in Dynamics 365 Sales (CRM)? Campaign management has already been a long time in Dynamics 365 Sales, but is it still being used out in the wild? You can create a Campaign as a container for actions. You can add a Marketing List as a target...

Think you need approval? Think again. In the fast-paced world of business, time is not just money; it’s everything. Yet, many processes are still handcuffed by the need for approvals. It's a common misconception that every decision needs a green light from someone...

You want to skip tests programmatically in xUnit? You can't do it. xUnit doesn't allow it. The annoying thing it is already been added to the codebase of xUnit in the start 2020 (see https://github.com/xunit/xunit/issues/2073). It is planned for xUnit v3... which is...

My 7 favorite code review AI prompts: I often work in two separate modes when coding: Writing and Reviewing. In reviewing (editing) I focus on cleaning up, shortening and improving the code. I use the following AI prompts: 1️⃣ Suggest Refactoring. Proposes too much...