I want to recommend two blog posts about the usage of the async await pattern in C#. The first one is a blog by Stephen Toub, “Await, and UI, and deadlocks! Oh my!” which is already a few years old (from 2011), but is still valid. And the other one is by Jon Goldberger, “Getting Started with Async / Await”. Both posts present common pitfalls like accessing .Result on the UI Thread and describe solutions on how to do “async all the way”.

As a former unix user, I wanted to have a similar (single) command to search for content in files in my scripting environment, which is the Powershell. The solution is a pretty simple usage of the two cmdlets Get-ChildItem and Select-String:

With the work done by Don Williamson and Dave Compton it was pretty easy to enable comments on my blog. They implemented a solution build on the Github Issue API to manage comments and I really liked that idea. The benefits are nicely summarized in the blog post by Don. So I followed the steps mentioned in Dave’s blog post and here we are, comments enabled!

So I forked from the Jekyll Now repository and did some small adaptions. Honestly I’ve no idea what and how often I will blog, let’s see…