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Greatest hits

• Why software sucks
  May 31, 2019 | 4 min read
• Open folder in Visual Studio Code from the Finder
  Jan 29, 2017 | 1 min read

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Chronologically

2022 (2)

February

• Fixing command not found errors in Shortcuts.app
  
• Running Docker without Docker Desktop on macOS
  

2021 (4)

• Creating the same app using 4 different frameworks
  
• Control the tab bar color in Safari 15
  
• We're all individuals together
  
• App spring cleaning
  

2020 (17)

• Using F# in Xamarin Apps
  
• Functional ... C#?
  
• Wishing you all a very Bekk Christmas
  
• Navnedag - Norwegian name days 🇳🇴
  
• Dear Google Cloud - Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You
  
• Birthday Reminder++ 2020.1
  
• Golden Ratio Calculator++ 2020.1
  
• Perhaps More Than Ever – Truth Matters
  
• Jekyll error - does not have a valid date in the YAML front matter
  
• Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
  
• Redirects in Jekyll
  
• Use the cache action to speedup GitHub Actions
  
• HTMLProofer encoding woes
  
• The input device is not a TTY
  
• Book Scanner 2020.1
  
• The Year 2038 Problem is already here
  
• Better API development using Azure Functions
  

2019 (33)

• Inspirational Templates
  
• Fabulous Xamarin Forms
  Updated Dec 16, 2019
• Cannot print exception string
  
• Testing ViewModels using INotifyPropertyChanged verifier
  
• Building and testing an ASP.Net Core 3.0 application in Docker using GitHub Actions
  
• Docker, bash and invisible characters
  
• Building and testing an ASP.Net Core 3.0 application using GitHub Actions
  
• Benchmark CLI commands with hyperfine
  
• Create a tag cloud sorted by post count in Jekyll without plugins
  
• Sorting tags by number of posts in Jekyll without plugins
  
• Jekyll - ERROR bad Request-Line
  
• Xnapshot - automated iOS screenshots
  
• Jekyll YAML front matter validator
  Updated Mar 30, 2022
• The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found
  
• Unhandled managed exception - Default constructor not found
  
• Why software sucks
  
• FindRef - find those references!
  
• Making a Game Boy game in 2017 - A Sheep It Up! Post-Mortem
  
• Continuing an ordered list in Markdown
  
• Signing commits using GitHub Desktop on macOS
  Updated Aug 28, 2019
• Changing the color of buttons in the iOS UINavigationBar
  
• Could not find any available provisioning profiles for iOS
  
• Script for creating transparent PNGs
  
• VTable setup of type LightInject.ServiceContainer failed in Xamarin.iOS
  
• DNS worked using Docker run but not in Docker Compose
  
• Cross-platform mobile development using C# and Xamarin Forms
  
• Introducing Simplest Workout Tracker - The humane exercise log
  
• Book Scanner 1.7.2 or why a simple change took one month
  
• ERROR ITMS-90362: Invalid Info.plist value
  
• How to edit the Open Folder in Visual Studio Code macOS service
  
• Xamarin.UITest for iOS 12
  
• GitHub Pages 404
  
• You have an entitlement not supported by your current provisioning profile
  

2018 (30)

• Use Caps Lock as Escape in macOS
  
• Remove local branches not present on GitHub
  
• Make your code more beautiful with the Fira Code typeface
  
• Lookup IP from DNS name
  
• Don’t commit launch.json
  
• Converting a HTML table to Markdown using dotnet script
  
• Creating an ASP.Net Core app with a React frontend and Docker hosting
  
• Simplify your crontab entries with crontab.guru
  
• The application to execute does not exist
  
• Automatically purge changed pages from the Cloudflare cache when adding a new post to Jekyll
  
• Shrinking a Raspbian installation to save space
  
• Automatically update and upgrade Raspbian
  
• Automatically update OpenSSH on a Raspberry Pi
  
• Remove stuck Launchpad progress bar from the Dock on macOS
  
• Error RZ3007 - Targeted tag name cannot be null or whitespace.
  
• Jekyll error - bad Request-Line
  
• .dockerignore is your friend
  
• Running ASP.Net Core web app in a Docker container using a multi-stage Dockerfile
  
• Xamarin iOS bindings for Simulator Status Magic
  
• An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest was not found
  
• Visual Studio Code failed to start on macOS
  
• Sorry, but there is no formatter for 'xml'-files installed.
  
• Get milliseconds from Unix epoch in C#
  
• Split a C# list or array into multiple parts
  
• Change the OmniSharp version being used by Visual Studio Code
  
• Upgrade Chocolatey
  
• Bartender organizes your menu bar apps
  
• Rocket is my new favourite macOS app
  
• Thinking different about groups and tags in DevonThink
  
• Import books from Amazon to Goodreads on iOS
  

2017 (15)

• Open folder in Visual Studio Code from the Finder
  
• Comics Downloader
  
• Deploying and debugging apps wirelessly on Apple TV 4K
  
• Xcode - symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
  
• Funniest iOS 11 bug on iPhone X
  
• A weekend with iPhone X
  
• Enabling https on a Jekyll site
  
• Xamarin.iOS - failed to load ObjCRuntime.Runtime
  
• Testing Azure Blob Storage using xUnit
  
• Two Xamarin.iOS build errors
  
• Make the macOS firewall to permanently allow iOS apps running in the simulator
  
• Profilebot - the profile checking Slackbot for you!
  
• Open folder in Visual Studio Code from the Finder
  
• Isaac Asimov wrote almost 500 books in his lifetime—these are the six ways he did it
  
• Fluid Width Video
  

2016 (4)

• Why Do Achievements, Trophies, and Badges Work?
  
• Xamarin.iOS app crash on startup in simulator
  
• Scriptcs IntelliSense in Visual Studio Code
  
• Compiled Xamarin Forms XAML - Specified cast is not valid
  

2015 (32)

• Workday Countdown - A Status Board panel
  
• Endnote
  
• Drones - From the Cloud and Back Again
  
• What does an Open Source Microsoft Web Platform look like?
  
• Azure for Non-Microsofties aka Azure 101
  
• Software Design, Team Work and other man-made disasters
  
• Lunch
  
• Simple cross platform REST-service with .Net, Vagrant og Docker
  
• Keynote - TDC 2015
  
• Datatilsynet
  
• C++ - Where are we headed?
  
• On structs
  
• Go Mobile with C#, Visual Studio and Xamarin
  
• XAML Tools in Visual Studio 2015
  
• XAML Performance: Techniques for Maximizing Universal Windows App Experiences Built with XAML
  
• What’s New in C# 6 and Visual Basic 14
  
• Using Git in Visual Studio
  
• .Net Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”): Analyzers and the Rise of Code-Aware Libraries
  
• Introduction to ASP.Net 5
  
• Debugging Performance Issues Using Visual Studio 2015
  
• What’s New in XAML for Universal Windows Apps
  
• Money, Fame, and Flexibility: New Extensibility for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online
  
• Debugger Tips and Tricks for .Net Developers with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
  
• Build 2015 Day 2 Keynote
  
• A Lap Around .Net 2015
  
• Maximize Your Coding Productivity for Apps, Devices, and Services with Visual Studio 2015
  
• Build 2015 Day One Keynote
  
• Build 2015 Expectations
  
• WiFi login on OS X
  
• Tiling a sprite texture in SpriteKit
  
• Gradient Colors on iOS
  
• Keyboard disabled in Visual Studio 2013
  

2014 (24)

• ERROR ITMS-9000: Invalid Code Signing Entitlements
  
• From UIAlertView to UIAlertController using Xamarin and async / await
  
• ERROR ITMS-9000: Invalid Image Path
  
• New features in FermiContainer 1.1
  
• Introducing FermiContainer - an IoC container for the rest of us
  
• Replacing Launch Images with Storyboards using Xamarin.iOS
  
• Windows Forms + CefSharp = grey content?
  
• Xamarin.Forms - App Store rejection
  
• No content in Solution Explorer using Visual Studio 2013
  
• Xamarin.Forms 24 hour TimePicker on iOS
  
• Xamarin.Forms and iOS Simulator Scrolling
  
• DIPS Forum 2014 Presentation
  
• Book Scanner promotional video
  
• Book Scanner (iOS)
  
• A Fool With a Tool is Still a Fool
  
• Programming Sucks
  
• Debugger.Launch() in Services on Windows 8
  
• There's No Excuse
  
• Arnold Schwarzenegger based programming language
  
• Automation
  
• Notes on Writing Discoverable Framework Code
  
• Inertial Propulsion and Other Delusions
  
• Engineering Managers Should Code 30% of Their Time
  
• OS X script for fetching App Store icons
  

2013 (16)

• Finding financial transactions in Gmail using Python
  
• Async Method Caller - Easy async Without await
  
• Windows Installer error 1603
  
• The little test that could … not
  
• Debugging XSLT in Visual Studio
  
• Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32
  
• Message: The agent process was stopped while the test was running.
  
• Enable "Profile Test" in Visual Studio 2012's Test Explorer
  
• Easy Online UML Sequence Diagrams
  
• "User-Unhandled" Column Is Missing In Visual Studio's Debug Exceptions Window
  
• NDC 2013 session videos are up
  
• NDC 2013, Day 3
  
• NDC 2013, Day 2
  
• NDC 2013, Day 1
  
• Moq: Mock a method from an interface
  
• iOS Simulator scaling on a retina display
  

2012 (11)

• Remove duplicated entries for same application in Finder context menu
  
• Prepare Your Kindle for Re-Sale
  
• Send an email via Gmail using Python
  
• Optimize SVG images for retina displays
  
• Visual Studio 2012 tweaks
  
• Six years of WPF; what's changed?
  
• Premature Optimization
  
• Install Java in Mountain Lion
  
• How to move from Blogger to Squarespace
  
• A new home for my blog
  
• Top 5 podcasts for developers
  

2011 (11)

• Saving a configuration in C#
  
• Evernote and Remember The Milk
  
• Disable OS X Lion Resume per application
  
• Wake up Rested
  
• Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation
  
• Disable StyleCop Upgrade Dialog
  
• Error loading mixed mode assembly
  
• Xcode: Automatically show code completion pop up
  
• Windows Phone 7 – Change Live Id
  
• Speed up Dropbox using a Home Server
  
• Improve Google search results: Personal Blocklist
  

2010 (4)

• Windows Phone 7: The Tip, The Bug, The Suggestion
  
• Windows Phone 7: 3 small issues
  
• WiX + Ngen = Profit
  
• A few drops of WiX wisdom