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Pinch to zoom via the touchpad or screen is not on by default in Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu Linux. Here is a workaround.

Pinch to zoom via the touchpad or screen is not on by default in Chrome, Chromium, and Brave on Ubuntu Linux. But there is a simple fix.

Here is a simple example of using Oracle with Entity Framework Core. But it’s not something I would recommend.

A simple console application that uses Entity Framework to connect to the SingleStore database.

There is no NuGet.exe on Linux or Mac, but the dotnet CLI can be used to do some of the same things, including extracting the contents of a package.

By default, the Confluent Kafka client consumes one message at time, but with a bit of work it can consume batches of messages.

In the past VS Code would automatically create the .vscode directory with the tasks.json and launch.json files. This stopped happening some time ago, but there are still occasions when you need them. Here is a simple command to generate them.

Caches are usually used to store concrete values, but with C# you can store tasks for work you want to perform only once, at the time the key is first requested from the cache.

I usually want to run a task immediately, but there are times when I want to create a task, but not start it until later. This post will show you how to do defer execution of a task.

You often don’t have the Dockerfile that was used to create the image of the container you are running. But what if you want to know what is run when the container starts?