via Michael Tsai

• Open gpedit.msc Local Group Policy Editor panel.
• Go to:-
  • Computer Configuration
    • Administrative Templates
      • Windows Components
        • Remote Desktop Services
          • Remote Desktop Session Host
            • Connections
• Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session policy to Disabled.
• Set Limit number of connections policy to Enabled.
  • Set the RD Maximum Connections allowed to 999999 (unlimited).

• Why Spacedrive is the cross-platform file manager you didn't know you needed

• Linkding
• Linkwarden
• Servas
• Grimoire
• Hoarder
• LinkAce
• Readeck
• Shaarli
• Shirori

1. git init
2. git remote add origin <remote-uri>
3. git sparse-checkout set ¹
4. git sparse-checkout add <file-path>
5. git fetch origin main ²
6. git checkout main

• Task-based asynchronous programming
• Task.Run vs Task.Factory.StartNew
• StartNew is Dangerous

• StackOverflow: Initialize async data in ViewModel .NET MAUI
• GitHub: AsyncAwaitBestPractices
• Removing async void
• MVVM - Going async with async command

• Windows 11
  • 10.0.26100 24H2
  • 10.0.22621 22H2
  • 10.0.22000
• Windows 10
  • 10.0.20348 2104
  • 10.0.19041 2004
  • 10.0.18362 1903
  • 10.0.17763 1809

Set repositoryPath and globalPackagesFolder to ensure that all project references point to the new path. Environment variables need to be cleared as they’ll override Nuget.Config.

• MS Learn: Common NuGet configurations: How settings are applied

1. NUGET_PACKAGES User environment variable
2. NUGET_PACKAGES System environment variable
3. %APPDATA%\NuGet\NuGet.Config file config/globalPackagesFolder setting
4. %ProgramFiles(x86)%\NuGet\Config file config/globalPackagesFolder setting

• DEV: How to change default Nuget packages folder on Windows
• StackOverflow: Dotnet Nuget/package folder very big and for each user
• MS Learn: Managing the global packages, cache, and temp folders
• MS Learn: Common NuGet configurations
• MS Learn: nuget.config reference: config section

Alt + F8

During Windows setup:-

1. Shift + F10 to open command prompt.
2. Enter oobe\bypassnro command.
3. Setup will restart with “I don’t have internet” option at network selection.

Based on Saving Aranet4 data to Raspberry Pi

When you see the screen indicating that your PC can’t run Windows 11, press Shift + F10 to open the Command Prompt.

• SuperUser: How do I assign IPv6 addresses manually?
• SuperUser: Setting up IPv6 on a router behind another router
• Pi-Hole Discourse: Changing pi-hole ip-address without running reconfigure (pihole -r) in raspi os buster

Setting up CUPS isn’t necessary with the current Raspberry Pi OS image. Working drivers for ARM are the main problem.

• How to share a USB printer in WiFi with a Raspberry Pi?
• Raspberry Pi Print Server: Setup a Network Printer
• AskUbuntu: Finding device printer's device URI during driver installation
• Raspi StackExchange: Can't get Brother HL-L2300D printer to print from Raspberry Pi
• Raspi Forums: Getting Brother-Printer drivers to work
• How to set up a remote printer which is attached to a Raspberry Pi (or any other ARM computer)
• OpenPrinting: Brother HL-2130
• GutenPrint
• Reddit: Compile x86 .deb printer drivers into arm7 raspberry pi .deb
• SuperUser: Debian ARM and Brother DCP195C with CUPS
• How to Use Your Brother Printer with CUPS on Raspberry Pi

Add DefaultPath string value to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options. %UserProfile% works here.

via Michael Tsai

• StackOverflow: GitHub Action Get Commit Message

Forked from zufuliu/PDN-IcoCurType

Plugins are supported for the Store release. You just have to install them in a different location. Go to your Documents folder, create a folder called “paint.net App Files” (no quotes though), and then create a folder for each plugin type: Effects, FileTypes, and Shapes. And then put your plugins into each folder just like you’re used to with the Classic release. This does mean that plugins are installed per-user, mind you. This method of installation is also supported by the Classic release, by the way.

paint.net forum post

Note

Apps should have, at the bare minimum: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, and 256x256.

This covers the most common icon sizes, and by providing a 256px icon, ensures Windows should only ever scale your icon down, never up.

via Michael Tsai

With PowerShell

In .NET 5+ set <UseWPF>true</UseWPF> and <UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms> in the project file.

• User
  • Get: git config --global user.name
  • Set: git config --global user.name {display name}
  • Clear: git config --global user.name ""
• Email
  • Get: git config --global user.email
  • Set: git config --global user.email {email address}
  • Clear: git config --global user.email ""

• Microsoft: Fonts in .NET MAUI-Display font icons
• Using Font Icons in Xamarin.Forms: Goodbye Images, Hello Fonts!
• StackOverflow: Issue with FontImageSource Glyph when using a Binding
• StackOverflow: Shell FlyoutItem icon from Font Awesome

• Use .NET Secrets in a Console Application
• Microsoft: Safe storage of app secrets in development in ASP.NET Core
• StackOverflow: How to get "Manage User Secrets" in a .NET Core console-application?

• StackOverflow: MAUI why is my title bar gray and how do I fix it?
• StackOverflow: MAUI how to remove the Title Bar and fix the window size?
• Microsoft: Title bar customization

Tool to migrate .NET Framework projects to .NET “Core”.

• StackOverflow: What is Windows Application Packaging Project for?
• Deployment overview
• Packaged, Unpackaged and Self-Contained WinUI 3 Apps with the Windows App Sdk
• MSIX: The Modern Way to Deploy Desktop Apps on Windows
• MSIX: Probably you don't know, but you are already using it
• Features that require package identity
• Integrate your desktop app with Windows using packaging extensions

• Configuration in .NET
• Configuration providers in .NET
• Using .NET Core Configuration with legacy projects
• StackOverflow: JSON Configuration in full .NET Framework Console App
• StackOverflow: How to properly set up configuration in a .NET 5 console app?
• StackOverflow: When do we need IOptions?

JS for ZenStack(Prisma Catalyst For Full-stack Development):
“When I transitioned from the backend development world to the full-stack world in 2021, I found that all the buzz from the popular stack like Next.js, Prisma, and tRPC seems to be around monolithic, people were no longer talking about the microservices.”

Add registry entries for folder and background context menu items

• https://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49822

• Visual Studio Extension: .NET Upgrade Assistant

1. Create Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge Key
2. Create Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\HubsSidebarEnabled DWORD
3. Open edge://policy/ in Edge and click Reload Policies to check setting applied

• PowerShell: about_Execution_Policies

Program: explorer.exe
Arguments: paintdotnet:%1
Friendly Name: paint.net

• paint.net in the Microsoft Store
• paintdotnet protocol

• Configuring NUT for the Eaton 3S UPS on Ubuntu Linux
• Hardware compatibility list
• reddit: Advice for Pihole + nut (ups) lighttpd cgi-bin
• Disabling UPS beep under Linux

Or change the name of the target folder during the clone:-

Paste plain text in MS Office ALT, H, V, T consecutively

• Part 1
• Part 2

• MS Docs: Theming a Xamarin.Forms application
• MS Docs: Respond to system theme changes in Xamarin.Forms applications
• StackOverflow: Overwrite Xamarin default styles
• MS Docs: Xamarin.Forms Text Styles

• StackOverflow: Easiest way to split a string on newlines in .NET?
• StackOverflow: How to know which iteration is the last line at foreach File.ReadLines
• StackOverflow: How to get first N elements of a list in C#?

• StackOverflow: Passing two command parameters using a WPF binding
• StackOverflow: Converter With Multiple Parameters
• StackOverflow: Define a collection inside XAML

• Jekyll include
• Liquid
• StackOverflow: Reading YAML with Ruby, unexpected return type
• StackOverflow: Passing parameters to inclusion in Liquid templates
• Jekyll remove first in array?
• Jekyll Markdown Internal Links

• %PROGRAMFILES%
• %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%
• %APPDATA%
• %LOCALAPPDATA%
• %USERPROFILE%
• %PROGRAMDATA%

• Debugging Configuration

• It’s all in the Host Class – Dependency Injection with .NET
• How to implement Dependency Injection in WPF
• Update on using HostBuilder, Dependency Injection and Service Provider with .NET Core 3.0 WPF applications
• Dependency Injection with .NET Core

• Asynchronous: Async Await (.NET) Avoid Context Switching to Improve Performance

• StackOverflow: Set ApartmentState for async void main
• StackOverflow: WPF App, run async task before opening Window

• https://github.com/geersch/WPD
• StackOverflow: C# example for simple WPD/PTP/MTP image acquisition
• StackOverflow: Enumerating Windows Portable Devices in C#

Windows

• How to keep PowerShell Core up to date using Windows Terminal

• ASCII Code - The extended ASCII table
• StackOverflow: ascii codec cant decode byte 0xe9
• StackOverflow: UnicodeEncodeError 'ascii' codec can't encode character u' ' in position 20 ordinal not in range(128)
• StackOverflow: How to get the ASCII value of a character

• StackOverflow: How to check if a python module exists without importing it
• StackOverflow: How to check if python module exists and can be imported

• StackOverflow: Converting html to text with Python
• StackOverflow: Strip HTML from strings in Python
• PyPI: beautifulsoup4
• PyPI: html2text

• StackOverflow: .Net Core 3.0 executable doesn't read appsettings.json

• Part 1: The Basics
• Part 2: Hiding as IEnumerable
• Part 3: Hiding as ICollection
• Part 4: A more general abstraction

• MS Docs: Choose a Xamarin.Forms Layout
• StackOverflow: How to create a form in a pop-up using xamarin.forms?
• MSDN Social: Best way to create non full screen popup?

• Binding an Image to a Bounding Box in Bing Maps in C# for Visual Studio
• Local Tile Layers in Bing Maps WPF
• Stackoverflow: WPF Application with map control and custom map

• StackOverflow: SpecialFolder.Personal location
• StackOverflow: How can one pull the (private) data of one's own Android app?

• StackOverflow: Background Task does not run in UWP
• StackOverflow: How to run some code every day at midnight in background in UWP?
• MS Docs: Support your app with background tasks

• StackOverflow: How can I split a text file using PowerShell?
• StackOverflow: Trapping regex matches in an array with powershell
• Split a multi vCard file into separate files

• https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/decimal-to-hex.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139957/c-sharp-convert-integer-to-hex-and-back-again
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/703019/convert-integer-to-hex-and-hex-to-integer

1. EF doesn’t support unsigned types. Use long for uint.
2. [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.None)] attribute to turn off auto generated keys.
3. DbContext.Table.RemoveRange(from c in DbContext.Table select c) to clear table. Or ((IObjectContextAdapter)DbContext).ObjectContext.ExecuteStoreCommand("TRUNCATE TABLE [Table]") for quick and dirty.
4. [Key] attribute to define primary key
5. Use [Table("[Table]")] on class for table name

• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193542%28v=vs.113%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/20184709/146360
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591583%28v=vs.113%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/21885745/146360
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200620%28v=vs.113%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20203492/entitytype-has-no-key-defined-error
• https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/648f9f5f-b844-48cb-85c3-74c8f2ee87cc/entity-framework-code-first-stop-autoincrement-and-use-my-primary-key?forum=adodotnetentityframework
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26303631/how-to-use-unsigned-int-long-types-with-entity-framework

• Local Tile Layers in Bing Maps WPF
• Creating custom Xamarin.Forms maps
• GitHub: Xamarin Custom Maps Sample

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32886613/logger-for-windows-10-uwp-app
• https://github.com/serilog/serilog
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/monetize/log-custom-events-for-dev-center
• https://github.com/Fody/Anotar
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30543689/how-to-use-serilog-with-unity

Creating a background task for a UWP app requires a Windows Runtime Component as host
(for out-of-process background tasks). Among the limitations for creating Windows Runtime Components is the inability to expose Task and Task<TResult> as part of the signature of a public method.

• StackOverflow: Async Calls in UWP Background Application
• MSDN: Exposing .NET tasks as WinRT asynchronous operations
• Asynchronous programming with async and await (C#) - Return types and parameters
• Creating Windows Runtime Components in C# and Visual Basic - Asynchronous operations

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/files/fast-file-properties
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.storage.storagefile.properties
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/files/quickstart-managing-folders-in-the-music-pictures-and-videos-libraries
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.storage.search.queryoptions
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.storage.storagefolder

• StackOverflow:WebAuthenticationBroker.AuthenticateAsync in android Xamarin

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.xaml.controls.symbol#fields-
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/style/segoe-ui-symbol-font#icon-list

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/uwp/devices-sensors/device-information-properties
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e86e5836-522f-4084-8bb3-4c0d4da9cb26
• https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples/tree/master/Samples/DeviceEnumerationAndPairing

• StackOverflow: How to download files using UWP in c#
• Windows 8 Background Transfer sample in C#
• BackgroundDownloader Class

• Parallel Computing - It's All About the SynchronizationContext
• TaskCompletionSource Class
• StackOverflow: How to 'await' raising an EventHandler event

• https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-Support-Feedback/OAuth2-0-throws-invalid-grant-type-message-while-fetching-the/td-p/268801
• https://trevorhartsblog.com/2018/03/05/xamarin-android-dropbox-api-v2/
• https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-Support-Feedback/How-do-I-set-the-Redirect-URI-port-number/td-p/243556
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41525569/xamarin-equivalent-to-webauthenticationbroker-getcurrentapplicationcallbackuri
• https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet

• Building a Xamarin app with Azure Functions and OneDrive
• Authenticate Your Mobile Apps Using Microsoft Authentication

‘In the Core Project (.NET Standard Project) Properties > Compilation > Advanced > Select “PDB Only”’

Doesn’t work with .NET Core dlls due to pdb format

• https://peteris.rocks/blog/merging-net-assemblies-with-msbuild/
• https://github.com/Microsoft/ILMerge
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10137937/merge-dll-into-exe
• http://dotnettower.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/visual-studio-post-build-event.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2556048/how-to-integrate-ilmerge-into-visual-studio-build-process-to-merge-assemblies
• https://github.com/Microsoft/ILMerge/issues/11
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106855/build-with-ilmerge-error

• http://redpillxamarin.com/2016/12/14/introduction-to-this-series/
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2016/03/31/free-ebook-creating-mobile-apps-with-xamarin-forms/

• MSDocs: Images in Xamarin.Forms
• StackOverflow: Load icons from UWP-library as image in Xamarin.Forms
• MSDocs: App icons and logos
• Material Design: Product Icons
• StackOverflow: Where to find UWP Segoe MDL2 icons in image format?
• Google Fonts: Material Icons
• MSDocs: Segoe MDL2 Assets icons

• Making a control Visible when mouse is over an adjacent control in a stack panel using Triggers RRS feed

• Read continous bytestream from Stream using TcpClient and Reactive Extensions
• StackOverflow: What is the proper way to create an Observable which reads a stream to the end
• StackOverflow: Reading from NetworkStream corrupts the buffer

• StackOverflow: Apply Style From Resource to ListView.ItemContainerStyle
• Item templates for list view

• Differences between Label and TextBlock
• SystemColors.GrayTextBrushKey Property

• CollectionViewSource is crazy useful for binding to filtered Observable Collections on Windows Phone 8
• StackOverflow: How do you sort a CollectionViewSource by one property, then by another as a tiebreak?
• Reactive List

• Truncate String with Ellipsis
• Ellipse My Text...

• StackOverFlow: CSS - fixed height on tr and fixed height on table?
• StackOverFlow: How to use class attribute in html col
• StackOverFlow: How to define minimum height for tbody in CSS
• HTML Dog: Tables

• StackOverflow: How to remove indentation from an unordered list item?
• StackOverflow: Don't Display Numbers/Bullets for Ordered or Unordered List
• HTML Dog: Lists

• HTML Dog: Page Layout
• HTML Dog: Sectioning
• StackOverflow: How do I display 2 sections side-by-side?

• W3Schools: CSS background-position Property
• HTML Dog: Background Images

• StackOverflow: Read continous bytestream from Stream using TcpClient and Reactive Extensions
• StackOverflow: How to get received message buffer from connected client socket using Socket and Reactive extension (Rx)

• join clause (C# Reference)
• StackOverflow: How to perform Join between multiple tables in LINQ lambda
• StackOverflow: Awaiting multiple Tasks with different results
• StackOverflow: How do you perform a left outer join using linq extension methods

Add to wpf project file

• Runtime binding bug with .NET Standard Socket in a .NET Desktop Console App
• GitHub Issue: Dependencies don't flow from new NETStandard project to old Desktop projects through ProjectReferences #901

• http://putridparrot.com/blog/localizing-a-wpf-application-using-locbaml/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/advanced/wpf-globalization-and-localization-overview
• https://wpf.2000things.com/2014/07/28/1123-localization-iv-download-and-build-the-locbaml-tool/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/advanced/how-to-localize-an-application
• https://wpf.2000things.com/2014/07/24/1121-localization-ii-assigning-uids-to-all-localizable-elements/

• StackOverflow: How to use binding in the ListBox’s Items to the ViewModel’s properties
• StackOverflow: Adaptive layouts with visual states and state triggers

• StackOverflow: ComboBox SelectedItem vs SelectedValue
• StackOverflow: WPF Binding ComboBox to my ViewModel
• StackOverflow: StackOverflowException in UWP ComboBox
• StackOverflow: Combobox binding to a dictionary
• StackOverflow: Windows 10 App - Combobox from JSON

• Adaptive layouts with visual states and state triggers
• StackOverflow: How do I reference a StaticResource in code-behind?

• StackOverflow: The application called an interface that was marshalled for a different thread - Windows Store App
• StackOverflow: The application called an interface that was marshalled for a different thread in window 8
• StackOverflow: using await inside setters
• StackOverflow: Passing an *Awaitable* Anonymous Function as a Parameter
• StackOverflow: Correct way to get the CoreDispatcher in a Windows Store app

• StackOverflow: How to do relativesource mode find ancestor (or equivalent) in UWP
• StackOverflow: How to use binding in the ListBox’s Items to the ViewModel’s properties
• StackOverflow: How to use x:Bind with different data type than data template

When accessing a remote port from a UWP app, using TcpClient, an ExtendedSocketException ‘An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions’ is thrown.

• TcpClient Class
• StreamSocket Class
• StackOverflow: UWP nativemessaging host print to network printer using sockets in C#

No straightforward way of adding exception handling to a LINQ expression using query syntax.

• StackOverflow: Exception handling within a LINQ Expression
• StackOverflow: Selecting List<string> into Dictionary with index
• Query Syntax and Method Syntax in LINQ (C#)

• UdpClient Class
• StackOverflow: How to do Network discovery using UDP broadcast
• StackOverflow: UWP app doesn't receive UDP Datagram from a .NET desktop app on localhost

• ListView/ObservableCollection Sorting/Filtering/Grouping Examples?
• StackOverflow: UWP ObservableCollection sorting and grouping
• ListViews and The Task Store in a Universal Windows App
• Filtering and Sorting a ListView in a UWP – Part 1 – The UX
• Filtering and Sorting a ListView in a UWP – Part 2 – The Code

• Windows App Development: Create a Text box

• Clicking AppBarButton does not update two-way data binding

• StackOverflow: ListView ItemTemplate 100% width
• GitHub: Grid doesn't work as expected in MasterDetailsView templates

Add an app.manifest file to the Project and use the System.Security.Principal namespace to check at runtime whether privileges have been provided.

• StackOverflow: How do I force my .NET application to run as administrator?
• Designing UAC Applications for Windows Vista: Step 6
• StackOverflow: UAC need for console application
• StackOverflow: Difference between “highestAvailable” and “requireAdministrator” in manifest in terms of Elevation?

Or rather, dont.

• StackOverflow: ComboBox with localizable ComboBoxItems specified in XAML
• StackOverflow: Bind UWP ComboBox ItemsSource to Enum
• StackOverflow: UWP ComboBox not populating with bound value
• StackOverflow: How to bind an enum to a combobox control in WPF?

• https://github.com/bsonnino/CustomerCrud
• Universal Windows Platform - Creating a Line-of-Business App with the UWP

Via @zekjur

UI described in post is already out-of-date. Azure interface setup is fussy with no detailed error messages.

Simple chrome extension to hide distracting sidebar elements on StackOverflow.

• 2017-11-28-no-stackexchange-hot-network-questions

With the side effect of learning how to create simple Chrome extensions. This answer assumes you want to see them on other StackExchange sites.

• GitHub: yahoo-ffl

• Removing XML Elements Using PowerShell
• Empty Elements with self closing tags
• An Xml Tidy in PowerShell or Formatting Xml with Indenting with PowerShell

• StackOverflow: csv reformatting with powershell
• Easily Remove Columns from a CSV File by Using PowerShell
• PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Read Tab Delimited File

• Using Windows 10 Anniversary bash with Visual Studio Code

• Installing the Pebble SDK on Linux.https://developer.pebble.com/sdk/install/linux/
• thomasstoeckert/pebble-install-on-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows.txt

Via Exploring the IMAGE PowerShell Module

Via StackOverflow: how to export a class in powershell v5 module

• PowerShell 5: Create Simple Class
• Creating Instances of PowerShell 5 Classes
• Adding Methods to a PowerShell 5 Class
• PowerShell 5 Classes: Constructor Overloading
• Creating Objects in Windows PowerShell

Requires a local (i.e. non-GitHub) build.

• Liquid Gist Tag for Jekyll

• Editing image exif tags
• StackOverflow: How do I edit JPG File Title, Subject, Comments, and Tags/Keywords? - Follow Up
• StackOverflow: How to Add 'Comments' to a JPEG File Using C#
• Image.SetPropertyItem Method (PropertyItem)
• Property Tags in Numerical Order

• C#: How to Read Image MetaData from System.Drawing.Imaging.PropertyItem
• Windows PowerShell Tip of the Week: Working with Hash Tables
• Windows PowerShell Tip of the Week: Using the Switch Statement
• StackOverflow: What's the powershell syntax for multiple values in a switch statement?

jot -w 2017/%02d 12 | xargs mkdir -p

• Efficiency and idiosyncrasy

• What is the difference between 'git remote update', 'git fetch' and 'git pull'?

For heathergraph, based on How to check if a Git pull is needed. Makes a bit of a mess of logging to console but does the job.

Python based text email print server for Raspberry Pi and Pipsta

• Good logging practice in Python
• using python logging in multiple modules
• Python logging multiple files using the same logger
• Making Python loggers output all messages to stdout in addition to log
• How to log python exception?
• Python string formatting: % vs. .format

• Visual Studio Code for Chromebook and Raspberry Pi

curl -I <url> or curl -v <url> which also includes whether the server is blacklisted (not that this is necessarily correct).

> HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
...
< location: <actual url>

• Find where a t.co link goes to

• Very basic example of using Python and IMAP to iterate over emails in a gmail folder/label
• Google App Passwords
• Python Imaplib: Get new gmail mails without reconnect
• Python : How to parse the Body from a raw email, given that raw email does not have a 'Body' tag or anything
• How to check whether IMAP-IDLE works?
• Reliable IMAP synchronization with IDLE support
• Python — imaplib IMAP example with Gmail

Add bcm2835-v4l2 to /etc/modules

• RasPi Camera Board and Motion
• Official V4L2 driver

• Setting up Wireless motion-detect cam
• Raspberry Pi as low-cost HD surveillance camera
• Raspberry Pi Motion Detection Security Camera

• How to install NodeJS 4 using apt?
• How to Install the Latest Versions of NodeJS and NPM for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

After you inevitably break your Windows Subsystem for Linux you can ‘factory reset’ it (including the file system) by running the following from an elevated Windows command prompt.

• How to remove/reset Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Insider Build 14316

On all my Ubuntu on Windows installs to date I’ve initially got a sudo: unable to resolve host [PCNAME] error when running a command with sudo.

• Error message when I run sudo: unable to resolve host (none)
• What is difference between localhost address 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.1.1
• Error 0x80070490 after modifying /etc/hosts from Windows

Bash for the Code Throne

• Visual Studio Code: Integrated Terminal

From Windows Vista onwards Microsoft have provided API functions to monitor changes to the Clipboard.

• Fluxbytes: Monitor for clipboard changes using AddClipboardFormatListener
• Microsoft: Clipboard Functions

The Dropbox folder path is stored in info.json in the Dropbox Application Data and Local Application Data folders.

• Dropbox: How can I programmatically find the Dropbox folder paths?
• Stack Overflow: How do I programmatically locate my Dropbox folder using C#?

Historically the default ‘Email’ button in Word/Excel had some limitations that made it mostly unusable. It’s tendency not to save messages to ‘Sent Items’ being it’s worst fault, but also the default Subject and Body content weren’t great. To get around these limitations I’d been using a custom ‘Email Document’ button attached to an ‘EmailDocument’ macro. After upgrading to Office 2016 this stopped working.

• Attachments.Add Method (Outlook)
• OlAttachmentType Enumeration (Outlook)

Fonts for the Font god

Not compatible with having next/previous post links but potential improvement coming from rss feed/twitter.

Used a variation on this to create redirects for post and project links.

Pebble Watchface created using Pebble Developer Tutorials.

Copy of pebble-examples/pebblekit-js-weather with additional functionality.

The first rule of C is don’t write C if you can avoid it.

Revisited creating a tags page for this blog. Pretty straightforward apart from having to correct all of the post tag formats.

Code by Charles Petzold is an excellent read, “a unique exploration into bits, bytes, and the inner workings of computers”. I thought it would be interesting to write an application to generate the combination of Braille, Morse and Binary found on the cover for any text input. I assumed someone would have done this already as the book is now a good 15 years old. If they have I couldn’t find it.

My desktop pc stopped showing any contents for Quick access in File Explorer a couple of days ago. Reddit provides various suggestions.

When Windows 8.1 came out Computer in the Windows Explorer Navigation Pane was renamed to This PC and a load of User folder links were added to it.

Has to be pre-compiled for GitHub pages sadly. Four years old so maybe it’s supported now. This is a To-Do reminder really.

The solution suggested on various forums is to run ‘sfc /scannow’ from an Administrator Command Prompt and then restart Outlook.

As with most xaml based apps there are any number of ways of ordering a list of items. A quick and straightforward way to do this entirely in xaml is to use a CollectionViewSource.

• CollectionViewSource is crazy useful for binding to filtered Observable Collections on Windows Phone 8
• Stack Overflow: How can I sort a ListBox using only XAML and no code-behind?

Having had middling success including code in posts here I wondered whether it was possible to embed gists instead of relying on markdown and css.

Dropbox

OneDrive

The OneDrive folder path was originally stored in the registry under SkyDrive, but this is no longer the case. Retrieving the contents of the OneDriveConsumer environment variable seems the most straightforward method.

• Stack Overflow: Get OneDrive path in Windows

A couple of posts from Kirill Osenkov on Visual Studio Solution and Project configuration.

• Using a common intermediate and output directory for your solution
• How to have a Project Reference without referencing the actual binary

In trying to create a custom control for a Windows Phone 8.1 project I was having an odd problem where StringFormat didn’t seem to be supported by the TextBlock control Text property any more so the following “Unsupported” style raised an error against StringFormat=T:

And the Front Matter ‘title’ variable overrides it the same as the ‘date’ variable. Which makes sense if you think about it.

Jekyll Now didn’t include support for Font Awesome icons so I ha(a?)cked them in by copying the method used by Haacked.

• How to Install Jekyll on Raspberry Pi 3 (Raspbian Jessie)?
• Build A Blog with Jekyll and GitHub on Raspberry Pi

Test post using the “Post” link at the top of the page.

Rough and ready parser for read.md using RegEx for read.md

A regex to parse read.md

GitHub, not unreasonably, has a read-only mobile site. Writing this on the desktop site on my phone is fairly awful. Even ignoring my terrible memory wrt the header values.

Bit of a cheat as I’ve just done the phone post and so therefore can just about remember all the criteria for a valid post. Maybe try again later and see how that goes.

(Test of external URL posts).

There are various ways of doing this. This one has been done by forking the Jekyll Now repository on GitHub.