How to Add a Header to a curl Request
by curl is one of those great utilities that’s been around seemingly forever and has endless use cases. These days I find myself using curl to …
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Case Insensitive CSS Attribute Selector
CSS selectors never cease to amaze me in how powerful they can be in matching complex patterns. Most of that flexibility is in parent/child/sibling relationships, …
How to Set Date Time from Mac Command Line
Working on a web extension that ships to an app store and isn’t immediately modifiable, like a website, can be difficult. Since you cannot immediately …
.NET 6 Hot Reload and “Refused to connect to ws: because it violates the Content Security Policy directive” because Web Sockets
If you’re excited about Hot Reload like me AND you also want an “A” grade from SecurityHeaders.com (really, go try this now) then …
Upgrading a 20 year old University Project to .NET 6 with dotnet-upgrade-assistant
I wrote a Tiny Virtual Operating System for a 300-level OS class in C# for college back in 2001 (?) and later moved …
A Nightscout Segment for OhMyPosh shows my realtime Blood Sugar readings in my Git Prompt
I’ve talked about how I love a nice pretty prompt in my Windows Terminal and made videos showing in detail how to do …
Test-Driving HTML Templates
After a decade or more where Single-Page-Applications generated by JavaScript frameworks have become the norm, we see that server-side rendered HTML is becoming popular again, …
JavaScript and TypeScript Projects with React, Angular, or Vue in Visual Studio 2022 with or without .NET
I was reading Gabby’s blog post about the new TypeScript/JavaScript project experience in Visual Studio 2022. You should read the docs on JavaScript …
How to Retrieve WiFi Password on Windows
Remembering the WiFi password when on a guest network is never easy. Even worse is when it’s no longer posted and someone else is asking …
Using Home Assistant to integrate a Unifi Protect G4 Doorbell and Amazon Alexa to announce visitors
I am not a Home Assistant expert, but it’s clearly a massive and powerful ecosystem. I’ve interviewed the creator of Home Assistant on …