dotnet watch: you use it for hot reload. You should do more with it.

Every time I changed code, I’d Alt-Tab to the terminal, arrow up, Enter. dotnet test. Wait. Check. Back to the editor. Repeat.

It’s not the end of the world. But over a full day, it adds up, mostly in lost focus. The annoying part is that I already had dotnet watch in my workflow for hot-reloading a web app. I just never thought to ask what else it could do.

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