Add Shift+Enter to OpenCode in Windows Terminal

Make OpenCode easier to use in Windows Terminal by adding a key binding that sends Shift+Enter through the kitty keyboard protocol.

When the Planning Wall Doesn’t Scale

At the Wehkamp Tech Hub we support Wehkamp with technology in the broadest sense of the word: almost everything is technology. Bigger topics, like the replacement of our order management system, require careful planning over teams; we have many of those topics.

Our Head of Product also had the need to share more of the roadmap, so he asked me if I could look into the problem of generating a roadmap report we could share.

Improve VS Code Commit Messages with GitHub’s git-commit skill

I really love that tiny Generate Commit Message button in the VS Code interface, but I like my commit messages to us a different commit style, using prefixes like “feat:” and “chore:”. Let’s see if we can wire up the git-commit skill (made by GitHub) to our project, so the AI generates even better messages.

Unit Testing complex validations (study)

Some validations are complex. Let’s explore how .NET data annotation validation and FluentValidation can be combined and (unit) tested.

Let’s combine Data Annotation Validation with FluentValidation

Ever since I wrote the blog “Is One Of” and “Is Not One Of” validation attributes, I’ve wondered if there is anything better for class validation. I mean: validating individual properties is fine, but usually the more interesting stuff is the validation of a combination of members.

Data Annotation validation with dependency injection in a business service

What I love a about data annotations and validation attributes, is that the validation rules are defined very close to the class: when you open it up, you can view all the rules. The ApiController will even automatically do model validation. This is great, but I like some defense it depth; I want to be able to use those validations in my business service as well. I should not have to trust input. Let’s explore how we can make that happen.

Kiota Client Unit Testing: mocking data

After implementing Kiota clients with resilience, I felt the need to spend some time on unit testing them. The Kiota docs on unit testing uses NSubstitute to override the response of the adapter. After some testing (pun intended), I did not feel satisfied with the results; we should be able to use the “normal” way of testing an HttpClient, right? In this blog, I’ll show how to use the RichardSzalay.MockHttp package together with Kiota.

Kiota, dependency injection and resilience

My new years resolution is to generate HTTP clients for services with an Open API spec. Microsoft released Kiota, a tool that generates C# classes from specs. In this blog, I’ll be looking at dependency injection and resilience.

Implementing HTTP Resilience by Microsoft

I was working on a project that needed to call multiple webservices, so I wanted to add resilience. Luckily, Microsoft has created a HTTP Resilience package as a wrapper for Polly, adding sensible defaults. In this blog I’ll explore how easy it is to add the new package to our services, including deferring to configuration.

How to bypass company wallpaper as local admin on Windows 11

Looks like my organization (accidentally) wants to manage my background picture. If you are an admin, you might be able to (temporarily) override the wallpaper, by editing your registry and restarting the explorer process. If you can, you can automate it using PowerShell.