For most of my career, when I hit a problem I needed to solve with code, the first instinct was to go looking for something that already existed. Search GitHub, check NuGet, find a Stack Overflow thread, grab an open-source project and tweak it. The cost of writing something from scratch, even something small, was high enough that reuse almost always made sense.

AI has quietly changed that calculus. And I think it’s more significant than most people are giving it credit for.

I use keyboard shortcuts a lot and in outlook I am used to the Ctrl+1/2/3/4 to go between mail, calendar, contacts, etc. In teams I found myself using Ctrl + 2 to go to the calendar which actually brings you to the Chat tab. I know I could use Ctrl + 4 but you know muscle memory…

Now that we are dealing with COVID-19, a lot of companies are getting their employees to work remotely. For some this will be great and for other who crave social interaction not so great. For me the key thing is making sure that my team feels like a team still.

Keeping the routine going is pretty important. For yourself and your team. There are lots of great posts about this so I will just list the key points.

This is more for me than anyone else. If you want to move to PowerShell core in Visual Studio Code then do the following.

1. Press CTRL + , to open settings.
2. Enter Shell: Windows in the search box.
3. Scroll down to Terminal > Integrated > Shell: Windows
4. Click on ‘Edit in settings.json’ and add the following.

I work with git for home and work project, I recently found you can use alias across all platforms due to the way it runs on windows. So all these aliases will work happily on git for windows and hopefully will make you work day more streamlined.

Some are from sites I have found and other I have created myself.