Currently I’m almost exclusively using Windows (with WSL2) for both work and pleasure. Having used Linux on and off since 1996 there are things that I miss. In particular I miss the command line, the shells and the environment arround that. It has improved on Windows with the Windows Terminal and some off the cross platform projects coming up.

However, on the Desktop Environment side I’ve missed the resource overview charts that are available in most environments such as KDE, Gnome, XFCE etc. I mean the little area of the task bar where a chart is showing the CPU, network, disk etc usage. I knew that if the Windows (11) Task Manager is open then a CPU monitor appears in the Sys-tray. However, I did not know that if you go to the Performance tab and double click e.g. the CPU activity

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.

Notes about the IO language based on the excercises in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

A long time ago, I bought the book “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” by Bruce A. Tate. I’ve flipped through it, but until now, I hadn’t tried the self-study sections.

I’m tracking my progress in the SevenLangsInSevenWeeks GitHub repository.

It has been a thing to place disposable cameras on each tables at parties such as wedings. It enables the guests of the party to take snapshots of events.

We had such an event coming up - and I wanted to replicate this with the natural twist of using the guests’ own phones.

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.

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#.

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

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.

In order to reduce costs I have moved the site from an www.one.com to an Azure Static Web Site which offers free hosting. As the site is fully static already I do not need the PHP and DB stuff that comes with a hosting plan on www.one.com.