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Chiang Mai is one of the highest-ranked destinations for digital nomads. This year, I got tempted to see how would it be to live and work from here. In this short piece, I’ll share my opinion on one particular aspect of such life: Is Chiang Mai good for bike (bicycle) riding? I’ll admit that at … Read more

When I created my first AWS Serverless application from a template (a blueprint) in Visual Studio, I expected that I could just run it locally the same way as I always run Azure Functions. However, I received the following error: Unable to run your project. The “RunCommand” property is not defined. I cannot imagine working … Read more

In Docker, it is common to build your containers upon a base image from a third party. For example, a Dockerfile for .NET project usually starts with a code similar to: Now, for a long time, I assumed that when I build an image from such a Dockerfile, it will use the most recent available … Read more

This post describes how we can normalize the volume of audio files in Anki library. I want to make a note on it while I remember. I know this is a niche need, but if Google search led you here, I believe you might appreciate it 😉 Statement of the problem Solution: how to normalize … Read more

The problem: Microsoft docs selects a machine-translated version of document by default If English is not your native language, you might have noticed that documentation from Microsoft opens in your native language by default. This behavior is very user-unfriendly because, unfortunately, the documentation is machine-translated. The quality of this translation makes it unreadable for every … Read more

TL/DR: no. But you can make your life at least a bit easier with the right tooling. I heard this question a few times from my colleagues, so I’ll drop a short post with my answer for a wider audience 🙂 Many coders I know tend to avoid tasks where they need to change something … Read more

The most popular feature of JetBrains.Annotations is probably the addition of two cool attributes: [NotNull] and [CanBeNull]. They add a meta-information to a marked element, describing if null is a correct value for that element, or not. Then, developers using ReSharper would get help from the IDE and could easier avoid mistakes like here: I … Read more

Making Visual Studio treat warnings the same way as errors .NET projects have an interesting property that we can set. It’s named TreatWarningsAsErrors. We can set it in *.csproj files: For years, I would say that this is great! The more strict code checking rules, the better, right? Code style, warnings, conventions. And in theory, … Read more

Wouldn’t it be great to have your Pi-Hole hosted in the cloud and accessible everywhere? Perhaps you could use its ad blocking on your smartphone, at work, or when connected to Wi-Fi networks outside your home. I tried, but it is tricky. A typical Raspberry Pi sits behind a home router. Exposing it to the … Read more

The top-level statements are a feature introduced in C# 10. The idea is to reduce the boilerplate code needed to define aplication’s entry point. So instead of the traditional: We can write the code directly in the main project’s file, which reduces the code to just one line: .NET 6 templates use this new, concise … Read more