October 29, 2021

One of the first things you are gonna realize after you get started with Codespaces, is that you desperately want your own custom environment setup that you enjoy locally to somehow magically be in Codespaces as well. You can do that using a “dotfiles” repo, and in this post, we’re...

August 05, 2021

Cosmos DB automactially adds a timestamp field called “_ts”. everytime a document is created or updated. And it looks like this… { "_ts": 1628083065 } That number is described by this blog post as an “epoch value in seconds (not milliseconds) since an item was last modified.” The number of...

July 31, 2021

One of the great advantages to Azure Static Web Apps should be the ability to easily integrate with other Azure services. I’ve been working on a sample blog project a la the old Ruby on Rails tutorial, and I wanted to add the ability to upload an image to a...

February 27, 2021

After my post on how to auto-switch your theme based on the time of day, a few readers pointed out that VS Code “does this automatically”. In other words, you don’t need the extension that I recommended to do this. I had no idea! Is this true? Kind of… While...

February 22, 2021

While looking at Google Trends the other day for “visual studio code”, I noticed that one of the rising trends was “visual studio code format json”. Today, it’s gone, but still in the top related queries along with “how to format code”. This got me curious as to what it...