Testing as if in another timezone

Having users in other time zones can lead to problems. In particular if dates (for historic reasons) are represented as time stamps - that is, a time of day is included.

In order to do manual tests it is beneficial to be able to run your browser as if it was running in another time zone.

On Edge in Windows (probably you’ll find something like that in other browsers) - you can do it via the Developer Tools (F12) and under the “Sensors” tab there is the option the change your location. You may create extra locations than the pre-defined. Use the TZ Database Time Zones.

Moving from LoqSeq to Obsidian

I never really settle on how to do my notes. Recently, I’ve been using LoqSeq - but I’ve decided to go with Obsidian. Both are based on Markdown files as their ‘data’ storage format which makes it relatively easy to make the switch.

Visual Studio Code Extensions

Which extensions do I use and how have I modified Visual Studio Code.

Keep in mind my main tool is still Visual Studio 20xx (Non-code) and my day-to-day job is crafting C#-code. Thus, VS Code is my second most used editor - I use it for most other tasks than C#.

Edge Adjustments

I do like to use Microsoft Edge as my main browser. I use one profile for work and one for personal things. I’ve changed a couple of settings to better fit my way of working

Initial startup directory in PowerShell

Up until now I had a Set-Location statement in my Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 startup file that set my in the directory above all my work related folders. However, that did not work well with Visual Studio Codes build step as it runs with the standard terminal. Asking CoPilot I got the following (working) solution

if (-not $env:TERM_PROGRAM -eq "vscode") {
    Set-Location (Get-CanonicalCasePath c:\myprojectsfolder)
}

I’m considering turning more of my customizations off to improve on the startup time.