(Marinko Spasojevic) One of the common practices in user account management is to provide a possibility for the users to change their passwords if they forget it.

(James) I was looking at Easy Auth this week and found myself curious as to if it would work with a generic Open ID Connect identity provider.

(Francisco) Modern software development practices value quick and continuous updates, following processes that minimize the impact of software failures. As important as identifying bugs early, finding out if changes are improving business value are equally important.

(Ben Nadel) Last weekend, my mind was blown by Divya Sasidharan, who mentioned that you could use webkit-appearance to add custom CSS styling to native form elements.

(Becky Nagel) We caught up with expert web developer/trainer Brice Wilson to get his take on Angular, which always appears at or near the top of periodic rankings of the most popular JavaScript-based web development frameworks.

(Steve Smith) Recently in one of our great devBetter discussions, Rick Hodder (go follow him now) shared a cool extension for VS Code. Basically, it lets you turn VS Code into a REST client. Think of it like a combination of Postman and Azure Data Studio (or LinqPad or SSMS if you prefer).

(Andrew Lock) In a recent post I discussed the changes to routing that come in ASP.NET Core 3.0, and how you can convert a “terminal” middleware to the new “endpoint” design.

(Gustav) Recently while pair programming with a colleague, we got into discussing the best way to initialize new objects in C#. I’ve always just implemented constructors and left it at that, while he tended to favour static factory methods.

(Scott Hanselman) Four years ago I wrote how to BUILD (literally compile) Visual Studio Code for a Raspberry Pi ARM machine. Just a few months later in November, community member Jay Rodgers released his labor of love – nightly builds of VS Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi.

(Ben Nadel) A while back, I started to experiment with using CSS custom properties to theme Angular components. Which is totally awesome! But, it’s one thing to be working with a fresh Angular install; and, it’s a completely different beast to be working with an old, janky, legacy application (cough