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InfluxDB is a time-series database that is great for storing and querying time-based data. This post shows how to set it up with Docker and access it from a C# application.

OBS Studio is usually used to record or stream video, but it can be used to record podcasts.

Sorting strings that contain numbers gets a little more complicated when the number has a variable number of digits. You can end up with a list like this - 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4…

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.