Eric Finn @_ericfinn

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a portable Touchscreen Tablet with SunFounder's RasPad - I was very fortunate to get a preview version of the "RasPad" from SunFounder. Check it out at raspad.sunfounder.com and at the time of these writing they have a Ki... ow.ly/totC50gVUK5

Cross-platform GUIs with open source .NET using Eto.Forms - This is one of those "Did you know you could do THAT?" Many folks have figured out that C#/F#/.NET is cross-platform and open0source and runs on basically any operating system. People are usi... ow.ly/7LeA50gSaZ5

Setting up Application Insights took 10 minutes. It created two days of work for me. - I've been upgrading my podcast site from a 10 year old WebMatrix site to modern, open source ASP.NET Core with Razor Pages. It's off IIS and now run... ow.ly/H3AH50gPyKf

Upgrading my podcast site to ASP.NET Core 2.1 in Azure plus some Best Practices - I am continuing to upgrade to podcast's site. Today I upgraded it to .NET Core 2.1, keeping the work going from my upgrade from "Web Matrix WebPages" fro... ow.ly/aJWJ50gNvxF

Major build speed improvements - Try .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 today - Head over to the main .NET Core download page and pick up .NET Core 2.1 - Preview 1. The SDK contains the tools you need to build and run apps with .NET Core and supports Mac, Window... ow.ly/XJYA50gKNR7

A multi-player server-side GameBoy Emulator written in .NET Core and Angular - One of the great joys of sharing and discovering code online is when you stumble upon something so truly epic, so amazing, that you have to dig in. Head over to... ow.ly/LKg250gJ08D

Running ASP.NET Core on GoDaddy's cheapest shared Linux Hosting - Don't Try This At Home - First, a disclaimer. Don't do this. I did this to test a theory and to prove a point. ASP.NET Core and the .NET Core that it run... ow.ly/QOsP50gGJT9

Upgrading a 10 year old site to ASP.NET Core's Razor Pages using the URL Rewriting Middleware - My podcast has over 600 episodes (Every week for many years, you do the math! And subscribe!) website was written in... ow.ly/bcFs50gDdPy

az webapp new - Azure CLI extension to create and deploy a .NET Core or nodejs site in one command - The Azure CLI 2.0 (Command line interface) is a clean little command line tool to query the Azure back-end APIs (which are JSON). It's easy to install... ow.ly/eGe750gBcMD

The Squishy Side of Open Source - A few months back my friend Keeley Hammond and I did a workshop for Women Who Code Portland called The Squishy Side of Open Source. We'd done a number of workshops before on how to use Git and the Command Line, and I'... ow.ly/lyXC50gABa1

One Email Rule - Have a separate Inbox and an Inbox CC to reduce email stress. Guaranteed. - I've mentioned this tip before but once more for the folks in the back. This email productivity tip is a game-changer for most information workers. We all str... ow.ly/v6sT50gzmuY

Surface Book 2 Developer Impressions and the Magic of USB-C - I recently got a updated laptop for work, a 15" Surface Book 2. It's quickly become my go-to machine, and I'm often finding myself using it more than my main desktop machine. I considered m... ow.ly/W6ra50gvidC

Why should I care about Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration? - A person at work chatted me, commenting on my recent blog posts on the Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Clusters that are being built, and wondered "why should I care about Kubernetes o... ow.ly/LVCX50gpLue

Everyone should get a Dashcam - I've put Dashcams in both my car and my wife's car. It's already captured two accidents: one where I was rear-ended and one where someone fell asleep as they were driving a few cars ahead of me on the freeway. After the... ow.ly/dURH50go2FR

How to set up Kubernetes on Windows 10 with Docker for Windows and run ASP.NET Core - Docker for Windows is really coming along nicely. They have both a Stable and Edge channel and the Edge (beta, experimental) one just included a love... ow.ly/YVBI50giKEs

Building a Raspberry Pi Car Robot with WiFi and Video - Last year I found a company called SunFounder that makes great Raspberry Pi-related kits and stuff. I got their Raspberry Pi 10" Touchscreen LCD and enjoyed it very much. This month I picked up t... ow.ly/Yub050ghRUI

You got this! The Imposter's Handbook - Sometimes we all get overwhelmed. There's a million (no irony there) reasons to be overwhelmed today, to be sure. I got an email from a community member who was feeling like they hadn't kept up on the latest tec... ow.ly/Z3MZ50ggBrY

Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv, DOSBox, plus telnet fun with WSL - I continue to enjoy seeing what can be done with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) but even more fun is combining CMD.exe (the Windows console), Ubuntu on Windows (W... ow.ly/R1v350gbzVN

Building 0verkill on Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux - 2D ASCII art deathmatch game - I'm a big fan of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It's real Linux that runs real user-mode ELF binaries but it's all on Windows 10. It's not running in a Virtual Mach... ow.ly/CLha50g668C

Exploring the Azure IoT Arduino Cloud DevKit - Someone gave me an Azure IoT DevKit, and it was lovely timing as I'm continuing to learn about IoT. As you may know, I've done a number of Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects, and plugged them into various ... ow.ly/TNJO50g43iT