Marc-André Moreau
@awakecoding
Remote desktop protocol expert, OSS contributor and Microsoft MVP. I love designing products with Rust, C# and PowerShell. Proud to be CTO at Devolutions. 🇨🇦
New blog post! 📰 Microsoft Remote Desktop (MSRDC) is going away 😱 — and recent updates broke MsRdpEx support. Learn how to pin a stable version, disable auto-updates, and save it while you still can! ☀️💻👇 awakecoding.com/posts/saving-m…
The Visual Studio CoPilot Agent or Edit modes have terrible UI. You can't tell whether it's actually still working, and when it's done it doesn't let you know. Then the UI prompts and makes you in some cases go through each change even when you asked to apply. I end up jumping…
I'm looking for publicly-available MCP servers similar to the Microsoft Learn Docs MCP server. Just an HTTP endpoint you can call without authentication (learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp). Bonus points if it's doing something as simple as returning search results: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training…
How does one inject secrets as *files* inside a container running in Azure Web App? I have a file with encryption keys in a custom format that can't be just replaced by Azure Key Vault, so I'd like to inject it as a file mapped inside the container image.
Azure Web App would be amazing if only it could reliably stream logs from failed container starts. Refresh doesn't do anything, you can't clear old logs, and it randomly updates the logs after a while so you can re-deploy several times before seeing new logs appended
Blogged: Fighting through Setting up Microsoft Trusted Signing for Code Signing I've written up my notes from getting a CodeSigning certificate setup on Azure, and yeah it's a pain in the ass. But in the end I did get it to work, warts and all. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/Jul…
I just finished reading "Generations: a science-fiction mystery thriller" by Noam Josephides. It takes place on a generation ship, and it was absolutely riveting - I highly recommend it
Has there been a proposal yet to standardize using a named pipe transport for MCP? In theory, someone could write a simple tool to forward between standard input/output and a named pipe server, but it would be better if it could be skipped entirely: modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/…
Awesome docker trick I didn't know about: "docker diff". Create a named container, and then list the files it has modified. Really useful to figure out why my container wasn't working in Azure Web App with WEBSITES_ENABLE_APP_SERVICE_STORAGE=false
I wish Azure Web App would support exposing custom TCP ports in addition to HTTPS
RustFS is actually pretty interesting. It's ~2.3x faster than MinIO, hope it stabilizes soon so I can replace MinIO with it
YEEEES, FINALLY. I finished the initial implementation 🥳 ➡️ github.com/TheBestTvarynk… It took me three times more code and twice as much time as I initially estimated.