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• How to avoid hiting GitHub API rate limits in CI workflows

  Posted on July 14, 2022

  I have a dependabot-like workflow I run on a schedule across many repos (it synchronizes arbitrary files across arbitrary repos using dotnet-file), which just recently failed since it hit the GitHub rate limit. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • devops
  • github

• Running headless Chromium in Azure Container Apps with Playwright

  Posted on June 29, 2022

  With the release of Azure Container Apps we now have a flexible alternative to Azure Functions that allows using the full power of ASP.NET Core in a fully serverless way that can scale down to zero when unused. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • container

• How to do Azure Functions Logging with DI

  Posted on March 10, 2022

  There is a bit of an unfortunate situation with Azure Functions’ ILogger implementation. To sumarize: the DI-injected ILogger<T> at the class level, won’t log to the Console by default, and even if you bump the logging level like so in host.json: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • functions

• Get owner and project name from GitHub Actions

  Posted on October 18, 2021

  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]

  Tags:

  • github
  • actions
  • ci

• How to retry failing dotnet tests in GitHub Actions

  Posted on September 24, 2021

  TL;DR;: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • github
  • ci

• Running (Mostly) Minimal .NET 6 APIs in Azure Functions

  Posted on September 3, 2021

  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]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • azure
  • functions
  • serverless

• How to embed videos in GitHub pages without growing the repository size

  Posted on July 23, 2021

  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]

  Tags:

  • github

• Clean cross-platform process shutdown for dotnet

  Posted on July 22, 2021

  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]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • tools

• Running evergreen version of a dotnet tool

  Posted on July 22, 2021

  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]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • tools

• Authoring IDE-only tests

  Posted on July 5, 2021

  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]

  Tags:

  • dotnet
  • testing

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