I’ve been using Windows Terminal more and more over the past couple of months, and have really come to love it. This is a quick post on how to customise it with a theme, fonts and icons. Disclaimer: I’m completely ripping off Kayla Cinnamon’s video, but thought I’d put it into writing so it’s easier to find and use. Step 1: Install Windows Terminal If you haven’t already got Windows Termianl, the recommended way to install it is via the Microsoft Store.

I’ve been using .NET Tools more and more recently; once you have .NET on your system, they’re so easy to install with just one command line call and are immediately available on the path. But how does one actually create a tool and make it available? I thought I’d do a series on how to authour a tool and make it available for public installation. Let’s jump right in! Requirements The tool I’m creating is a simple JSON validator: you point it to a JSON file on disk and it returns whether the file is valid JSON or not.

Microsoft have released a tool to more easily uninstall old .NET SDKs and Runtime’s from your machine. I use a Mac for my development and it’s always been annoying that you couldn’t easily remove old .NET versions, so I thought I’d give it a try and let you know how it went. Installing the tool Firstly, you need to install the uninstaller… that’s right. Currently the tool is released as a binary on GitHub because they were having problems releasing it as a .

GitHub have recently released a preview version of their CLI (Command Line Interface) to enable you to interact with GitHub from your favourite terminal. Although I use VS Code as my code editor, which has built in Git support, I still favour using GitHub desktop for handling all things Git related; repos, branches, commits and creating pull requests. However, it would be create to not have to run two GUI’s and handle everything from within VS Code via the built in terminal.