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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · 6d

Oh My Posh can be configured to automatically change tab titles in Windows Terminal

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PowerShell Tab Title in Windows Terminal

I often have several tabs open in my Windows Terminal. And I like how I can easily identify the right one by its title if it's a tab for WSL or an SSH connection. Fortunately, PowerShell can also auto...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · 20d

I wrote about the process of getting my old Xerox printer to work in Linux

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#xerox #printer #linux

Installing 32-bit Xerox printer in Linux

With Windows 10 support officially ending, I decided to install Linux Mint on one of my older machines which isn't supported by Windows 11. The transition was really smooth for the most part with the ...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Oct 3

I updated my NuGet package publishing GitHub Actions workflow to use trusted publishing

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#nuget #dotnet #github

Switching to NuGet trusted publishing

When the support for trusted publishing on NuGet was announced, I decided to try switching to it for my side project as soon as possible. The process ended up being very smooth.

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Sep 26

I created a PowerShell script to simplify adding new network routes

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#powershell #networking #windows

Selective VPN routing in Windows

I mostly work remotely and to gain access to many work resources, I need a VPN connection to my office. When you connect, all of your network traffic is routed through the VPN connection by default. T...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Sep 24

Slides and demo from my C# 14 talk at NT konferenca 2025

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#csharp14 #csharp #dotnet #ntk25

What's new in C# 14

Since a new version of .NET is being released every autumn, C# has also adopted the same cadence. So, this November C# 14 is going to be released alongside with .NET 10. In this talk, we will take a l...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Sep 19

New options for overloading operators in C# 14

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#csharp14 #csharp #dotnet

User defined compound operators in C# 14

Operator overloading has been a part of C# since its very first version. The functionality has remained the same until the introduction of generic math in C# 11 when some changes were made to shift op...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Sep 12

Multiple extension members with the same signature can cause ambiguity when they are all in scope

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#csharp #dotnet

Disambiguation of extension members in C# 14

In my previous two blog posts, I wrote about extension members in general and generic extension members. But there's one more topic related to extension members I'd like to cover: how ambiguous extens...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Sep 5

As you would expect, the extension everything in C# 14 works with generics as well

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#csharp #dotnet

Generic extension members in C# 14

I already wrote about extension members in C# 14 in my previous blog post, but I only covered the non-generic members. Since generics were fully supported in extension methods, they are of course also...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Aug 29

The long awaited extension everything feature is finally here with C# 14

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#csharp #dotnet

Extension members in C# 14

Extension members are the largest new feature of C# 14. We have been hearing about it for quite a while, also under the name of extension everything and extension types. It was expected to be released...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Aug 22

There's a bug in .NET 8 version of Created() method

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#aspnetcore #dotnet

Buggy Created response in ASP.NET Core 8

After getting a bug report that an ASP.NET Core Web API endpoint is returning 204 (No content) instead of 201 (Created), it turned out that the bug wasn't in the application code but in .NET.

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Aug 15

The new field keyword in C# 14 can simplify your properties and improve their encapsulation

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#csharp #dotnet

Field keyword in C# 14

The next C# 14 feature I took a closer look at was the field keyword. Similarly to the null-conditional assignment, it can reduce some of the boilerplate code you need to write. But it's not just synt...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Aug 8

Pros and cons of null-conditional assignment in C# 14

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#csharp #dotnet

Null-conditional assignment in C# 14

As the release of C# 14 is coming closer and most of the features are already available in preview, I decided to try them out myself. I started with null-conditional assignment, a syntactic sugar feat...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Aug 1

The OpenTelemetry plugin for Rider looks promising

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#opentelemetry #rider #dotnet

OpenTelemetry collection in Rider

When JetBrains announced the availability of an OpenTelemetry plugin for Rider, I decided to give it a try. I've examined the options for OpenTelemetry collection during development in the past and wa...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Jul 25

.NET provides various tools to ensure a timely response from a REST endpoint

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#dotnet #aspnetcore

Limit web API response time

When an ASP.NET Core Web API REST service endpoint makes further calls to upstream REST services or interacts with other potentially slow resources, its response time strongly depends on the response ...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Jul 18

Restic works just as good on Windows as it does on Linux

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#backup #synology #restic

Backing up my Windows workstation using restic

After I successfully configured restic backup for my Linux home lab server, I wanted to do the same for my Windows workstation.

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Jul 11

I'm happily using restic for backing up my Linux home server

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#backup #synology #restic

Backing up Linux home server using restic

Since I bought an ASUS NUC some months ago to act as my home lab server, I started to rely on a couple of applications running on it. That meant it was time to set up a proper backup as a safeguard in...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · Jul 4

I sleep better knowing that my Synology NAS is properly backed up.

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#backup #synology #hetzner

Backup setup for my Synology NAS

As I'm slowly replacing cloud services with self-hosted ones, I'm relying on my Synology NAS more and more. This encouraged me to rethink its backup strategy. I configured two separate backups: one to...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · May 9

There is no built-in file logger in .NET

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#logging #dotnet

Logging to file in .NET

Nowadays, it's common to send logs to your logging platform of choice either via a dedicated logger for that platform or via an OpenTelemetry exporter. But what if the logs have to be read from a file...

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · May 5

I'm certainly glad it's still there.

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Damir Arh @damirscorner.com · May 5

It is, right? I set it up years ago and it just worked. Until I wanted to get completions working and determined that the old version of oh my posh interfered with it.