Forwarding USB connections through Hyper-V — or anywhere on your network!
My development workflow revolves around virtual machines: I have dev VMs for multiple concurrently-running projects. Some are Windows, some are Linux. My hypervisor of choice used to be VirtualBox, but with the introduction of VBS, VirtualBox has become extremely slow because it’s forced to function under Hyper-V. So I switched to just using Hyper-V by […]
A Gentle Introduction to Mastodon and the Fediverse
Have you heard of Mastodon? No, not the band. The social network that’s been growing by leaps and bounds lately! If you’ve heard the name, but aren’t sure what its deal is, then this post is for you. The Big Idea Mastodon is a federated social network. What does that mean? Put simply, it’s a […]
Executing Windows Desktop App System Tests in CI
In the software industry, automated testing is a crucial part of the software development lifecycle. It allows for rapid issue detection and mitigation, encourages better compartmentalization of code, and provides confidence in overall application stability. While most Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) information on the web tends to focus on instrumenting browsers in order […]