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Upgrading to Astro 6

May 16, 2026•2 min read

What changed and what I had to fix when upgrading this site from Astro 4 to Astro 6.

VS Code July 2019 Release Highlights Video

August 12, 2019•1 min read

Highlights of features for the VS Code July 2019 Release (version 1.37)

Visual Studio Code Extension Development

March 25, 2019•20 min read

Learn how to develop a Visual Studio Code extension. Walkthrough creating a theme extension and a functional extension

Progressive Web Apps and Web Push API - Pushing Messages

October 18, 2017•4 min read

Part 4 of the PWA and Web Push API blog series. This one covers how to push messages to clients.

Progressive Web Apps and Web Push API - Application Server

August 22, 2017•7 min read

Part 3 of the PWA and Web Push API blog series. This one covers how to set up the application server.

Progressive Web Apps and Web Push API - Subscriber

August 4, 2017•3 min read

Part 2 of the PWA and Web Push API blog series. This one covers how to set up components of a PWA so that we have a client that can subscribe to push notifications.

Running Node.js in Azure

June 23, 2017•4 min read

This article walks through how to set up resources in Azure to host and run your Node.js apps

Progressive Web Apps and Web Push API - Introduction

June 15, 2017•2 min read

Part 1 of the PWA and Web Push API blog series. This one covers an introduction to progressive web apps (PWA's).

A New Start at Microsoft

June 6, 2017•3 min read

Clarkio shares his experiences starting a new job at Microsoft

Debugging in Node.js in 2017

April 25, 2017•12 min read

Exploring the different debugging strategies for Node.js apps and understanding the pros and cons of each one

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