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Yaakov

Development 4 min read

Finding your Operating System version programmatically

Here's how to do it on Linux, macOS and Windows. No surprises, Windows is by far the most complex.
macOS 3 min read

Thunderbolt Networking

Thunderbolt is amazingly fast, but how do you find the host at the other end of the cable?
Development 3 min read

Red-Green Trees

How do you create an immutable tree structure? The Roslyn compiler developers figured it out, and in this post I break down what they did.
Development 4 min read

Stack traces from async methods in .NET

It can be hard to make sense of the increasing complexity found in .NET stack traces. Once you strip out the noise, it becomes understandable.
Development 6 min read

Debugging CoreFX on macOS

How do you debug the .NET Core base class libraries on a Mac? Like this.
Development 1 min read

Using HTTP/2 in .NET client applications

The good news is that you can now make HTTP/2 requests from Windows. The bad news is that it needs a blog post to explain it.
Windows 1 min read

Setting a proxy for Aptitude (on Windows)

Here's what you need to configure to force Aptitude through a proxy.
Development 2 min read

Waiting for a Process with Timeout in .NET

There's a handful of race conditions you can hit when running child processes. Here is how to avoid them.
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