Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. He was also involved in the MVP and Regional Director programs and is an avid speaker on the topic of computing.
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 07 Mar 2024 01:12
Scott Hanselman writes "....I've been doing not just Unit Testing for my sites but full on Integration Testing and Browser Automation Testing as early as 2007 with Selenium. Lately, however, I've been using the faster and generally more compatible Playwright. It has one API..."
Read more » Updating to .NET 8, updating to IHostBuilder, and running Playwright Tests within NUnit headless or headed on any OS
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 27 Jun 2023 17:17
Scott Hanselman writes "....There are many let's encrypt automatic tools for azure but I also wanted to see if I could use certbot in wsl to generate a wildcard certificate for the azure Friday website and then upload the resulting certificates to azure app service. Azure app..."
Read more » Using WSL and Let's Encrypt to create Azure App Service SSL Wildcard Certificates
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 25 Apr 2023 15:31
Scott Hanselman writes "....GitHub Next has this cool project that is basically Copilot for the CLI (command line interface). You can sign up for their waitlist at the Copilot for CLI site. Copilot for CLI provides three shell commands: ??, git? and gh? This is cool and all,..."
Read more » GitHub Copilot for CLI for PowerShell
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 18 Dec 2022 22:16
Scott Hanselman writes "....Mastodon is a free, open-source social networking service that is decentralized and distributed. It was created in 2016 as an alternative to centralized social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. One of the key features of Mastodon is the..."
Read more » Use your own user @ domain for Mastodon discoverability with the WebFinger Protocol without hosting a server
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 18 Dec 2022 18:27
Scott Hanselman writes "....I have been blogging here for the last 20 years. Every Tuesday and Thursday, quite consistently, for two decades. But last year, without planning it, I got tired and stopped. Not sure why. It didn't correspond with any life events. Nothing..."
Read more » I got tired
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 14 Dec 2021 21:36
Scott Hanselman writes "....I am not a Home Assistant expert, but it's clearly a massive and powerful ecosystem. I've interviewed the creator of Home Assistant on my podcast and I encourage you to check out that chat. Home Assistant can quickly become a hobby that overwhelms..."
Read more » Using Home Assistant to integrate a Unifi Protect G4 Doorbell and Amazon Alexa to announce visitors
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 25 Nov 2021 20:50
Scott Hanselman writes "....I was reading Gabby's blog post about the new TypeScript/JavaScript project experience in Visual Studio 2022. You should read the docs on JavaScript and TypeScript in Visual Studio 2022. If you're used to ASP.NET apps when you think about apps that..."
Read more » JavaScript and TypeScript Projects with React, Angular, or Vue in Visual Studio 2022 with or without .NET
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 23 Nov 2021 20:02
Scott Hanselman writes "....I've talked about how I love a nice pretty prompt in my Windows Terminal and made videos showing in detail how to do it. I've also worked with my buddy TooTallNate to put my real-time blood sugar into a bash or PowerShell prompt, but this was back..."
Read more » A Nightscout Segment for OhMyPosh shows my realtime Blood Sugar readings in my Git Prompt
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 18 Nov 2021 21:18
Scott Hanselman writes "....I wrote a Tiny Virtual Operating System for a 300-level OS class in C# for college back in 2001 (?) and later moved it to VB.NET in 2002. This is all pre-.NET Core, and on early .NET 1.1 or 2.0 on Windows. I moved it to GitHub 5 years ago and ported..."
Read more » Upgrading a 20 year old University Project to .NET 6 with dotnet-upgrade-assistant
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 16 Nov 2021 19:37
Scott Hanselman writes "....If you're excited about Hot Reload like me AND you also want an "A" grade from SecurityHeaders.com (really, go try this now) then you will learn very quickly about Content-Security-Policy headers. You need to spend some time reading and you may end..."
Read more » .NET 6 Hot Reload and "Refused to connect to ws: because it violates the Content Security Policy directive" because Web Sockets
