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]

Building a BC container image with BuildKit

May 27, 2024

In my last blog post, I shared how you can use BuildKit on Windows to create a very simple Hello World container image. Now I want to show you how... [read more]

Test BuildKit support for Windows

Apr 21, 2024

Maybe you have already seen it, after quite some time, we now have experimental Windows Containers Support for BuildKit. This is great news because BuildKit is far superior to the... [read more]