VMWare Workstation Pro direct download link
Recently VMWare announced they are making VMWare Workstation Pro FREE for personal use. The VMWare workstation was already good virtualization software, I was using it to try out new operating systems or new Linux flavors instead of taking the hard pathway of dual-booting operating systems. It鈥檚 a handy tool to quickly spin up another machine without having it. 馃槈 And now pro is free to use for personal use, it unlocks whole new level of customization....
Dynamic PGO in .NET 7
With .NET 7 release, the .NET team has released dynamic PGO functionality for JIT in CoreCLR. Static PGO was already there with .NET 6 release, but with 7, we have both Static and dynamic PGO. Static PGO is by default on in .NET 6 and 7, the dynamic PGO we have to opt into with the flag. But before we enable it, let鈥檚 understand quickly what PGO means itself and what鈥檚 the difference between its static and dynamic variants....
How to set the memory limit for docker container
Docker is a popular tool for packaging and deploying applications in containers, which are lightweight and portable execution environments. One of the key benefits of using Docker is the ability to limit the resources that a container can use, such as CPU and memory. This can be useful for optimizing the performance of your containers and ensuring that they do not consume too many resources on the host machine. To set a memory limit when running a Docker container, you can use the --memory flag followed by the amount of memory you want to allocate to the container....
Assign a shortcut key for opening a website in Google Chrome
Have you ever wished you could quickly open your favorite website with just a few keystrokes? Well, you can! Chrome allows you to assign shortcut keys for opening websites, making it easy to access them without having to manually type in the URL or click on a bookmark. Here鈥檚 how to do it: Open Chrome and navigate to the website you want to create a shortcut for. In the address bar, click on the icon to the left of the website鈥檚 URL....
Thoughts on Economic recession
As the world continues to grapple with the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are understandably concerned about the possibility of a recession. While recessions are a normal part of the business cycle and most economies have recovered from past recessions, they can still be difficult and disruptive. One of the main challenges of a recession is the impact it can have on employment and income. During a recession, many people may lose their jobs or see their incomes decline, which can lead to reduced spending and further economic contraction....
Create a keyboard shortcut for pulling changes in git in Visual Studio Code
If you are a web developer or a software engineer, it鈥檚 most likely you are using Visual Studio code as your code editor. Yeah, it鈥檚 fantastic and easy to use. But I wondered when I found that there is no default shortcut key for most used options in git workflow, which pulls changes from upstream. So I decided to have a shortcut for pulling changes from upstream for both the current branches and different branches and also I though I should write a blog post around this just to let people know how to do that....
How to - Hide Prefetch request from Network Tab in Chrome DevTools
If you are a Web developer and working on a Full Stack application, you might have notice that the browser ( in my case Chrome) does send prefetch requests to your API endpoints before the actual API calls. This is actually useful to improve performance but this can be very confusing when you are debugging applications from the front-end to the back-end and monitoring API calls in the network tab. Prefetch requests just clutter the network tab and we miss our actual XHR request to see what is happening....
List of Podcasts channels for .NET C# developers
Just like I have aggregated YouTube channels for .NET developers, with this post I will be sharing the list of podcasts channel that you can consider listening to in order to keep up to date with .NET and related stuff. Because taking screen time off is important but learning and curiosity should not be stopped. The Unhandled Exception Podcast Adventures in .NET The .NET Core Podcast Null Pointers no dogma podcast DevTalk with Kerry W....
List of YouTube channels for .NET C# developers
Following is the list of youtube channels that I have aggregated for .NET C# (Csharp) developers. I personally follow them every day and subscribed. Please note that this does not represent any kind of ranking. I would suggest going through them one by one looking at their content and playlist section and if you are interested give them a sub! Along the time, I will keep this list updated, if I missed someone, please let me know in the comment section below!...
How to see Buy Date of Stock in Zerodha Kite
Recently I started investing with zerodha platform. It鈥檚 great and easy platform to interact with. One of the initial problem that I face is that there is no column showing buy/purchase date of stock on holdings screen. Also on console, there is no dedicated column for buy/purchase date of stock. But I found there is other option through which we can see the buy date of given stock. Following are the steps that we need to follow in order to see buy/purchase date of stock....