Say you need to access a GitHub repository owner and project name, separately. We know GitHub Actions environment variables exposes this information as: [Read More]

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Ok, I have to admit that the provided instructions aren’t bad at all. They actually state (most) of the required steps to do this, with a couple key missing pieces that caused me some trouble and resulted in quite a few trial-and-error attempts. I’m writing this down for my own future reference and hopefully it will save you some time too. [Read More]

Just a couple months ago GitHub announced video uploads support, which allows you to just drag&drop an .mp4 or .mov onto an issue, pull request or discussion and have it uploaded and hosted by GitHub for free 😍. [Read More]

While developing dotnet-evergreen, I needed to figure out a way to cleanly terminate a process in a cross-platform way without resorting to a (somewhat violent) Process.Kill. [Read More]

I’ve been doing quite a few dotnet global tools and had a need for a long-running tool to update itself over time, as updates are pushed to a nuget feed. [Read More]

API exploration, whether third party or your own, is a necessary and unavoidable part of regular development. There are many mechanisms available today for doing such exploration in a one-time, throw-away style, but it might be worth considering keeping those explorations around in your code base and even make them easily executable within the IDE afterwards, for further learning or other team members’ benefit. [Read More]

There is a very long standing feature request for NuGet Pack to “allow project reference DLLs to be added to the parent nupkg for pack target like IncludeReferencedProjects in nuget.exe”. This has been going on for years (5 almost as of 2021) and has had over 260 comments so far. Seems like quite the significant pain point for some customers. [Read More]

TLDR: just go check sponsors.yml and sponsors.ps1 😉 [Read More]

A few years back, while working on some DevOps-related tasks for Xamarin, I needed to create permalinks to CI/build artifacts so that other build pipelines (as well as local builds) could consume those regardless of the CI system that produced them (we had a mixture, so this complicated things). [Read More]