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Oh My Posh: Supercharge Your Terminal Prompt
14 Apr 2026 Oh My Posh: Supercharge Your Terminal Prompt
**Oh My Posh** is the most customizable, cross-platform prompt engine for any shell. Transform your boring terminal into a beautiful, context-aware powerhouse — with Git status, language versions, cloud info, and 170+ themes.
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Winget: The Windows Package Manager You Should Be Using
13 Apr 2026 Winget: The Windows Package Manager You Should Be Using
**Winget** is Microsoft's official command-line package manager for Windows, built right into the OS. Install, update, and manage thousands of apps from a single terminal — no browser, no installers, no clicking through wizards.
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Zed: The Code Editor Built for Speed and Collaboration
13 Apr 2026 Zed: The Code Editor Built for Speed and Collaboration
**Zed** is a next-generation code editor written in Rust, built from scratch for performance, real-time collaboration, and AI-first workflows. If you've ever felt that VS Code was too slow or too heavy, Zed is worth your attention.
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Mastering GitHub Copilot CLI: Your Terminal-Native AI Assistant
03 Apr 2026 Mastering GitHub Copilot CLI: Your Terminal-Native AI Assistant
**GitHub Copilot CLI** is a powerful, terminal-native AI coding assistant that brings advanced agentic capabilities directly to your command line. Designed to eliminate the friction of context-switching between tools, the Copilot CLI allows you to write code, run tests, fix errors, and execute complex workflows without ever leaving your terminal.
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Hugo & Markdown: The Art of Writing the Web
30 Mar 2026 Hugo & Markdown: The Art of Writing the Web
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. Released in 2013 by Steve Francia and now maintained by an active open-source community, it takes a folder of plain text files — mostly written in Markdown — and compiles them into a complete, ready-to-deploy website. No database. No server-side rendering at runtime. Just fast, static HTML.
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Hugo: The World's Fastest Static Site Generator
27 Mar 2026 Hugo: The World's Fastest Static Site Generator
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. Released in 2013 by Steve Francia and now maintained by an active open-source community, it takes a folder of plain text files — mostly written in Markdown — and compiles them into a complete, ready-to-deploy website. No database. No server-side rendering at runtime. Just fast, static HTML.
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Windows Terminal: The Ultimate Command Line Experience
01 Mar 2026 Windows Terminal: The Ultimate Command Line Experience
Windows Terminal is a new tabbed terminal application that aims to provide the best possible command line experience on Windows. It combines multiple shells int
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How Dev Containers rescued my project from Production Failure
01 Sep 2025 How Dev Containers rescued my project from Production Failure
A few months ago, I was developing a Python-based data processing pipeline on my Windows machine. Everything worked flawlessly—unit tests passed, the applicatio
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Using Serilog and Seq in ASP.NET Core Web API with .NET 8
31 Aug 2025 Using Serilog and Seq in ASP.NET Core Web API with .NET 8
Ashutosh Nigam | August 31, 2025 | While working on my ASP.NET Core Web API project, I faced a big problem debugging my code locally. In our cloud setup, I used Amazon CloudWatch to check logs, a
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24 Aug 2025 Prompt Engineering for AI: What It Is and How to Achieve Strong Results from AI Systems
Artificial intelligence tools are widely available today, assisting with tasks such as writing, coding, and creating images. Examples include ChatGPT, AutoGPT,
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