A poor man's backup and health check solution using Power Automate flows

Mar 9, 2025

If you run a service online, no matter how small, you probably have two challenges: How to make sure you know when your service goes down, and how to make... [read more]

Using WireMock to mock Business Central

Feb 24, 2025

Developing and testing solutions that consist of multiple components is inherently more difficult. Even more so when you need a “big” component like MS Dynamics 365 Business Central, such as... [read more]

Moving my Spin application to Azure (Kubernetes Service and Cache for Redis)

Jan 12, 2025

Due to a technical limitation1 in the Fermyon Cloud, I decided to move Verified Bluesky to the Azure Kubernetes Service with SpinKube, usingAzure Cache for Redis as backend for the... [read more]

How to contribute a verification source to Verified Bluesky

Dec 21, 2024

As I shared here, I created a little tool to verify Bluesky accounts based on external sources in the IT/Tech industry. It has seen a fair bit of adoption (515... [read more]

Verifying user accounts on Bluesky with a Wasm (spin) application

Nov 30, 2024

Bluesky is a relatively new Social network. I joined about a year ago, but it hasn’t seen much action until very recently. Now a lot of people in the tech... [read more]

Rotating a Logic App access key from C#

Oct 26, 2024

This is just a short one as I recently came across a problem that was a bit more difficult to solve than it should be and maybe someone with the... [read more]

My remote (SSH) development setup with VS Code, part II

Sep 8, 2024

The TL;DR In the first part for this topic, I have shared my little VS Code extension that allows one-click startup of and remote SSH VS Code connection to a... [read more]

My remote (SSH) development setup with VS Code, part I

Aug 28, 2024

The TL;DR My development workflow depends a lot on the technology I use. E.g. when working with BC, I use COSMO Alpaca with a local VS Code instance. But for... [read more]

Debugging slim containers and container images with Docker debug

Jul 2, 2024

I’ve talked a few times over the past months about using slimmed down container images as one of the best practices for containerized workloads (e.g. at Visual Studio Toolbox Live).... [read more]

Set up certificates for Azure Key Vault access during development in a dev container

Jun 22, 2024

I am a big fan of trying to be as close to production even during development as possible. Therefore, if my .NET application needs a connection to an Azure Key... [read more]