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Short articles containing specific things that I learnt one day.
I knew that typescript supports a type being a specific string, rather than the string type, so (for example) a function parameter can only receive the string “foo” and not a different string. Today I learnt that this can be done by using the as cons...
I recently hit an interesting gotcha with some code in a C# codebase i was working with. It baffled me because I didn’t understand how this could compile. MyClass.Foo has a getter but no setter, yet an instantiated MyClass can have the Foo property s...
Summary I was editing a run configuration in Rider and needed to add several environment variables to it. There’s a button in the dialogue to paste them in, but no guidance regarding the format of the data, and no feedback if you paste the wrong form...
Today I learnt that you can right–click on any project or directory within the Solution panel, and under the Git menu there is the option to Compare with Branch or Tag (or a separate option to Compare with Revision). This allows you to easily find al...
Introduction I was flummoxed when working with a .NET MAUI app when I opened the application and it wouldn’t build. I had previously worked on it a month or so ago and had set everything up on my laptop so it would build, yet without any code changes...
I use JetBrains Rider as my primary IDE, and I like to use it for as much of my development process as possible. I prefer to avoid jumping around between multiple different applications if I can, so when I want to run some SQL I typically use Rider r...
