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gpg-agent pinentry on Crostini

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

The default behavior of Crostini’s Debian Stretch container is to use a curses-based pinentry. This behaves strangely, in two different ways: Inherently, it shows the semi-graphical pinentry ... [continue reading]

Connecting Chromebook to ProtonVPN using OpenVPN

September 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

The VPN setup pages in Chrome OS appear to support OpenVPN. ProtonVPN also supports OpenVPN connections, and configuration files are available for download. However, it turns out that OpenVPN ... [continue reading]

Slides and Samples from Basta Spring 2018

February 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

This week was Basta week again. As usual, many thanks to all those who attended my workshop and my presentations! If you saw my Microservices talk, you may remember that two technical issues occurred ... [continue reading]

JavaScript debug output helper for expression-body lambdas

November 9, 2017 // 3 Comments

Sometimes I don’t fancy debugging a piece of code in the browser. I mean that as in “use the debugger” – I’d much rather see some log output. This can be more useful ... [continue reading]

Slides and samples from Basta! Spring 2017

February 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

This year’s Basta! Spring was another great conference — thank you very much to all of you who came to my workshop and my presentations! All the sample content and the slides I used in my ... [continue reading]

Being Functional at the London .NET User Group

May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Yesterday I presented my talk “Being Functional” to the London .NET User Group. First of all: thanks to Dylan and Ian and whoever else was involved for organizing this event and inviting ... [continue reading]

Slides and Samples From SDD 2016

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Last week I spoke at SDD 2016 in London. As usual, it was a well organized and attended event – thank you Nick for having me once again! Here are the slides and samples for my two talks: ... [continue reading]

Thank You, Microsoft!

April 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

It just arrived in my inbox: my tenth MVP award. It’s been a whole decade – unbelievable, I feel old now. In spite of my frequent biting criticism, Microsoft has decided to re-award me. I ... [continue reading]

Linux on Windows. That’s LOW.

March 31, 2016 // 2 Comments

Interesting announcement from Build: Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 So, what’s that all about? Things seem very unclear to me at the moment, but ... [continue reading]

Funktionales C# für Fortgeschrittene

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

The online publication Informatik Aktuell has just published a German language article I wrote for them on topics of functional programming in C#. Read it here: Funktionales C# für ... [continue reading]