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Jesse Houwing

I love good coffee, meaning strong, dark espresso! Regular Expressions are like word-puzzles to me, as are LINQ queries. I take pictures everywhere I go. Husband of 1, father of 2.

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Don't get lost in your plans

Don't get lost in your plans

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Restrict GitHub branches to specific prefixes

Restrict GitHub branches to specific prefixes

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Recommendations for using Azure CLI in your workflow

Recommendations for using Azure CLI in your workflow

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Allow people to find you on Mastadon from your Ghost Pro domain

Allow people to find you on Mastadon from your Ghost Pro domain

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Accessing (private) GitHub resources from a Codespace

Accessing (private) GitHub resources from a Codespace

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Investigating az-cli performance on the hosted Azure Pipelines and GitHub Runners

Investigating az-cli performance on the hosted Azure Pipelines and GitHub Runners

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VSBuild task fails on self-hosted Azure Pipelines Agent

VSBuild task fails on self-hosted Azure Pipelines Agent

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Protect the repository hosting your GitHub Action

Protect the repository hosting your GitHub Action

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Publish Azure DevOps Extensions using Azure Workload Identity

Publish Azure DevOps Extensions using Azure Workload Identity

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Tips & tricks: Git under WSL and windows

Tips & tricks: Git under WSL and windows

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Hey! You broke our pipeline!

Hey! You broke our pipeline!

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Enable RenovateBot for Azure Pipelines

Enable RenovateBot for Azure Pipelines

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Speeding up the Azure DevOps Extension tasks

Speeding up the Azure DevOps Extension tasks

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Security state of the Azure DevOps Marketplace

Security state of the Azure DevOps Marketplace

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Definitive solution for log4shell in Azure DevOps Server Search

Definitive solution for log4shell in Azure DevOps Server Search

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What's GitHub's new require approval of the most recent push policy all about?

What's GitHub's new require approval of the most recent push policy all about?

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Issuing workflow commands from the Windows shell in GitHub Actions

Issuing workflow commands from the Windows shell in GitHub Actions

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Update Ghost blogs and pages with PowerShell

Update Ghost blogs and pages with PowerShell

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Upgrade Hosted Agent / GitHub Runner PowerShell

Upgrade Hosted Agent / GitHub Runner PowerShell

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Be Secure and Compliant with GitHub

Be Secure and Compliant with GitHub

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Installing git-filter-repo on windows

Installing git-filter-repo on windows

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Customizing Codespaces

Customizing Codespaces

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Log4J – A 10 step mitigation plan

Log4J – A 10 step mitigation plan

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Azure DevOps 2020 and 2019 (and 2018) patch for log4j vulnerability

Azure DevOps 2020 and 2019 (and 2018) patch for log4j vulnerability

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Adding Visual Studio 2022 to Azure DevOps Server 2020

Adding Visual Studio 2022 to Azure DevOps Server 2020

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Use Visual Studio 2022 as merge tool in Tower

Use Visual Studio 2022 as merge tool in Tower

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Renaming an Azure Pipeline task in an existing Azure DevOps extension

Renaming an Azure Pipeline task in an existing Azure DevOps extension

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Accessing Azure DevOps APIs with large volumes of data

Accessing Azure DevOps APIs with large volumes of data

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Releasing the Nexus Guide 2020

Releasing the Nexus Guide 2020

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Can't push to GitHub "Refusing to allow an OAuth App to create or update workflow without workflow scope"

Can't push to GitHub "Refusing to allow an OAuth App to create or update workflow without workflow scope"

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Automatically add referral tag to URLs with Clipboard Fusion

Automatically add referral tag to URLs with Clipboard Fusion

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Rename your master branch in Azure Repos

Rename your master branch in Azure Repos

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Rename your master branch to something better

Rename your master branch to something better

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Create an Organization level feed in Azure Artifacts

Create an Organization level feed in Azure Artifacts

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What to do when your build hangs on the Hosted Pool...

What to do when your build hangs on the Hosted Pool...

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Enable your custom background on Microsoft Teams

Enable your custom background on Microsoft Teams

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Package Feeds consuming most data in Azure DevOps Server

Package Feeds consuming most data in Azure DevOps Server

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Configure Tower to use the new Windows Terminal

Configure Tower to use the new Windows Terminal

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My tools of trade

My tools of trade

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99% of code isn't yours

99% of code isn't yours

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Focus on what was done during Sprint Review

Focus on what was done during Sprint Review

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Launch WSL bash prompt from Tower

Launch WSL bash prompt from Tower

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Solving TFVC error TF14067 and Azure Pipelines

Solving TFVC error TF14067 and Azure Pipelines

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Hard lessons in asynchronous JavaScript code

Hard lessons in asynchronous JavaScript code

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Configuring standard policies for all repositories in Azure Repos

Configuring standard policies for all repositories in Azure Repos

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All about remote pair programming and mobbing

All about remote pair programming and mobbing

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Setting default repository permissions on your Azure DevOps Organization

Setting default repository permissions on your Azure DevOps Organization

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Workspace management tips for TFVC

Workspace management tips for TFVC

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Scaling Scrum to the limit

Scaling Scrum to the limit

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Use Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 as merge tool in Tower

Use Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 as merge tool in Tower

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Configure Visual Studio to use a different Git Credential Manager for Windows

Configure Visual Studio to use a different Git Credential Manager for Windows

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Decrypt BitLocker OS drive of corrupted windows installation

Decrypt BitLocker OS drive of corrupted windows installation

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Staged execution of tests in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Staged execution of tests in Azure DevOps Pipelines

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Uninstall Visual Studio extension from the command line

Uninstall Visual Studio extension from the command line

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