Jon Gallant

githubStore backs a Copilot canvas with a JSON file in a GitHub repo, so everyone editing the same board sees each other's changes.

I built a Copilot canvas that watches my live BBQ cook, then added Smokey - an AI pit master grounded in my real pit and probe temps.

azd 1.27.0 deploys container images to Azure App Service.

I've got a pile of repos that each need a GitHub Pages site, so I built create-gh-pages-site - a skill that scaffolds one and writes it from your repo.

I kept rebuilding the same plumbing for every Copilot canvas, so I built create-canvas-app - a skill that stamps a working canvas from one prompt.

I connected my ThermoWorks thermometer to the GitHub Copilot CLI so I can see grill temps while I code.

The azd exec extension I built has been merged into the Azure Developer CLI.

How I replaced 28 REST endpoints and 5 WebSocket streams with a single gRPC-compatible schema that serves CLI, browser, MCP, and future TUI from one source of truth.

azd 1.25.0 ships a DAG execution engine.

azd hooks are no longer limited to Bash and PowerShell.

Three ways to add custom prompts to your azd up flow - from @allowed pick lists to free-text input to full hook scripts.

The Azure Developer CLI now has a built-in update command.

I used GitHub Copilot CLI to set up a Windows Dev Drive, move all my package caches off C:, and get noticeably faster builds.

I built a terminal-based file explorer with deep Git, GitHub, and AI integration.

Announcing dispatch, a terminal UI to search, browse, and relaunch your GitHub Copilot CLI sessions.

How I built the Azure Developer CLI from a personal pain point into a platform used by thousands.

The story of how a quick prototype to help GitHub Copilot connect to Azure evolved into the Azure MCP Server and the foundation for Microsoft's MCP platform.

I got this error while calling an Azure Function from a ReactJS app.

Fix for GitHub Actions error: Unexpected value 'branches' in workflow_dispatch.

Let me cut right to the chase and let the below job description speak for itself.

Everything you need to know about Moon Palace Cancun - from booking strategies and the best restaurants to hidden gems and insider tips for an unforgettable ...

You are on a repo that you love and you see that you have maxed out your allowed 20 Codespaces!!!

Azure Identity is an Azure SDK library that abstracts all the authentication complexities so you can get back to building your Azure solutions.

I’ve been writing some UI automation tests with Playwright and was trying to parse a SignalR event.

Azure Identity is a library that abstracts away all of the Azure authentication complexities so you can focus on building your solutions.

I started playing with Playwright (the browser test automation tool) yesterday and discovered that the codegen feature doesn’t work in a devcontainer out of...

Azure Identity is a fundamental building block of the new Azure SDKs.

I’m using Visual Studio 2021 Preview 2.1 and I was constantly getting prompted to re-enter my credentials multiple times.

We recently added native CloudEvent support to our Event Grid libraries.

I’m new to Golang and yesterday I attempted to create a Golang CLI.

Azure Identity is a library that simplifies how applications authenticate with Azure services.

I’m pulling data from GitHub Codeowners into a Power BI report.

GitHub has Topics.

You’ve created your Microsoft Teams Team and you want to send an invite to all of the Team members.

VS Code just released an update that lets you embed an “Open in Visual Studio Code” button in your GitHub readme.

I just created a Microsoft Teams private channel and noticed that it doesn’t have “Get link to channel” option like other channels.

Let’s say that you are developing with Azure Event Grid and you simply want to see the messages that it is generating to observe the schema or debug it.

I just organized all my old photos into this folder format YYYY/YYYY_MM/YYYY_MM_DD - see this blog for more info: How to Organize Photos by EXIF Date Taken w...

Update - New GitHub CLI Extension GitHub CLI 2.0 introduced CLI Extensions.

I’ve been coding in .NET for a very-long-time, but this tripped me up.

Thunder Client is a new REST client VS Code extension.

You’re using VS Code with the GitLens extension and you see this: Or maybe you noticed that sometimes that text is inserted into the middle of what you are t...

A tech, career, & life blog from a developer focused on Azure developer experience at Microsoft.

We are a puzzle family and a few years ago started hanging them up around the house.

Fix subscription does not have QuotaId feature error in Azure.

I’ve been blogging and vlogging about Azure REST APIs with Postman for a while now and often get asked why I don’t use Postman’s built in OAuth 2.0 provider....

I don’t eat at McDonald’s often, but when I do it’s sodium overload because me and my kid are use to a very low-sodium diet.

This is a story of how much effort and care we put into Azure SDK naming guidelines and consistency - even for the casing of a single letter…the last T in Io...

Solution to Jekyll theme primer file not found error.

I recently decided to organize all of my photos from the last 20 years.