Scott Hanselman    I use my webcam constantly for streaming and I’m pretty familiar with all the internals and how the camera model on Windows works. I also use OBS extensively, so I regularly use the OBS virtual camera and flow everything through Open Broadcasting Studio. For my podcast, I use Zencastr which is a...

Scott Hanselman    See the canonical version of this blog post at the Microsoft Open Source Blog Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS DOS . and . to the Computer History Museum, and then later republished them for reference purposes. This code holds an important place in history and is a...

Scott Hanselman    I’ve been doing not just Unit Testing for my sites but full on Integration Testing and Browser Automation Testing as early as with Selenium. Lately, however, I’ve been using the faster and generally more compatible Playwright. It has one API and can test on Windows, Linux, Mac, locally, in a...

Scott Hanselman    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 service ultimately needs a specific format called...

Scott Hanselman    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, but I use PowerShell. Turns out these commands...

Scott Hanselman    Mastodon is a free, open source social networking service that is decentralized and distributed. It was created in as an alternative to centralized social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. One of the key features of Mastodon is the use of the WebFinger protocol, which allows users...

Scott Hanselman    I have been blogging here for the last 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 interesting or notable happened. I just stopped. I did find...

Scott Hanselman    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 you. Every object entity in your house that is...

Scott Hanselman    I was reading Gabby’s blog post about the new TypeScript JavaScript project experience in Visual Studio . You should read the docs on JavaScript and TypeScript in Visual Studio . If you’re used to ASP.NET apps when you think about apps that are JavaScript heavy, front end apps or...

Scott Hanselman    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 in . Now that I’m Team OhMyPosh I have been...

Scott Hanselman    I wrote a Tiny Virtual Operating System for a level OS class in C for college back in and later moved it to VB.NET in . This is all pre .NET Core, and on early .NET . or . on Windows. I moved it to GitHub years ago and ported it to .NET Core . at the time. At this point it...