As a Software Development Engineer, ensuring code quality and security is paramount, especially when working with critical shared branches like master and those meant for releases. Azure DevOps provides branch policies to enforce development best practices, such as requiring pull requests (PRs) and code review approvals before merging changes. In this post, I’ll walk through how to configure branch policies in Azure DevOps to prevent direct commits to master or release branches and ensure all changes go through a PR with at least one reviewer’s approval.

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Hey everyone! I’m excited to share updates to my blog post generator tool, a personal project I’ve been tinkering with to streamline my blogging process. You’ll find some other potentially helpful random utils in that repo. As someone who wants to blog more consistently to share my coding journey and boost my career, I’ve been pouring love into this tool to make it more practical and user-friendly. Here’s what’s new in the latest iteration!

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The following is a quick guide that I found very helpful after signing up for the Apple Developer program and wanting to quickly get my app up and running on my own device! It was generated by ChatGPT. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to set up and deploy a .NET 8 MAUI iOS application to an iPhone, including obtaining the necessary certificates and other steps not covered by .

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It’s late. And I haven’t posted in years. But this is a test. I asked ChatGPT to create me a script to make creating blog posts simpler. I gave it an example markdown file of one of my old posts and told it what it should prompt me for. At first it was just a script, but then it became a GUI, and then it became a GUI with a “Configure Settings button so I could provide an author name and the directory path to export posts to.

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I assume many are wondering the same thing so here are the quick facts: Congress passed the $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act late Tuesday night (3/24/20) This includes a check of up to $1,200 for single tax payers who earn less than $75,000 a year, with less progressively going to those who make more up to $100,000. Amount drops by $5 for every $100 in income above $75,000.

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My proposal passed with 76.3% approval! 🎉 I promised transparency with my proposal and I intend to update this post with insight into the work over the months and a picture of the invoice sent to Decred’s CMS system each month. This will be updated over time. Please bear with me as the format and level of description may fluctuate, and keep in mind that this level of disclosure to the public is rare.

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You are a savvy cryptocurrency user. You want a convenient way to check your balance or view status of your tickets without logging into your full-node or VSP. With a little set-up, you can do this from the convenience of your phone in as little as one touch or a “Hey Siri..” command. Follow along with this post and you’ll not only have this capability, but you’ll be equipped to get creative and do all sorts of impressive things with Siri Shortcuts and running scripts over SSH.

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