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How does PackageReference work?
PackageReferencehas replacedpackages.configas the primary mechanism for consuming NuGet packages. For those looking to migrate, there is documentation available to help you. But how does it actually work under the hood? -
Did you forget to set the alarm?
After setting up my security system in Home Assistant, a common problem my wife and I ran into was remembering to arm it when we left the house. A security system is only effective when you use it, and we just could not consistently remember to set it.
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Migrate from Home Assistant legacy Z-Wave to Z-Wave JS
As of version 2021.2, there is a new Z-Wave integration in Home Assistant based on Z-Wave JS, a modern Z-Wave driver built using JS, which is much more accessible for collaboration than the old one using OpenZWave.
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Creating a blog using GitHub Pages
Many software engineers have blogs, whether it’s to write about a particularly sticky problem they ran into, express their opinion about a given technology, evangelize their own projects, or to create a tutorial for a common task. This article falls into the latter category, as I felt like there are so many options with varying levels of barrier to entry, but there’s a really simple solution.
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Debugging MSBuild
At work I live primarily in the build space, specifically MSBuild-based environments, and a common trend I’ve noticed is that many developers struggle with MSBuild. The reason for this isn’t typically because the build space is “too hard”, or at least not much harder than any other kind of programming, but instead because the MSBuild syntax is effectively its own language and debugging execution of that language is not something most developers know how to do. This article attempts to provide various techniques for debugging MSBuild execution.
