Dates are an utter nightmare and YYYY is worse than I thought
Every year we get told that 'YYYY' in date formats is bad. But why? And just how bad is it? (Spoiler: very.)
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Yaakov
Pokémon Mythbusters: Continuity across Unova
I found a rumour on Reddit about a particular game continuity feature between Pokémon Black and White, and their sequels, Black 2 and White 2. But is it true?
The Notepad Logger: Window Messaging
In this post, I go deeper into the world's strangest logging implementation, and make it work with Notepad++ and Notepad2.
Building a custom Notepad logger for ASP.NET Core
In this post, I take possibly the world's strangest logging implementation, and rewrite it for .NET Core.
Streaming Pokémon into Microsoft Teams
Did you know that you can stream games and videos with Microsoft Teams? Me neither!
Quick notes on transferring Pokemon
It turns out that bringing your old Pokemon into newer games is not a simple task...
Accessing COM ports from a web page?!?!!
Did you know that you can control serial COM ports from a web page? Me neither. Here's what I've learned about it.
ZIP64 - Go Big Or Go Home
How does a ZIP file work? And how do you make really, really, _really_ big ones? Read this post to find out.
The Road to #pyconau
Last weekend, I attended PyCon AU 2019. This was my second time at PyCon AU and my third time attending any tech conference... but it was also my first time speaking at one! I'm leaving this blog post here as a note to future self, but also to anybody else who is interesting in how it happened.
Pausing Packer's PowerShell Processes
When using Packer to build virtual machines, sometimes I just want to pause it and poke around. Here's how I achieve that.
Making Sense of WireGuard
I recently decided to try out the hot new VPN protocol on the block, WireGuard. It took me about 2 hours of debugging and diagnostics to make sense of things, so I'm logging my notes here for future reference.
Using and Extending GitHub Actions
I got into the GitHub Actions beta! Here's what I've learned so far.
Automatically generating assembly binding redirects
If you're sick of System.IO.FileLoadExceptions, you've come to the right place!
Building Docker containers behind a proxy
How do you configure Docker to use a proxy when building a container, but not when running it?
A Ubiquiti Home Network
For a while, I've been eyeing an upgrade of my home network. I recently did that by introducing Ubiquiti gear, and (spoiler alert) it's been great.
Setting a Default InputFormatter in ASP.NET Core
In ASP.NET Core, you can write custom formatters to serialize or deserialize objects from/into request bodies. But how do you pick one without a Content-Type?
Controlling a Kubernetes cluster remotely
I didn't set up Kubernetes exactly as I intended to use it, so here's how I recreated the SSL certificates.
Kubernetes: Getting Pods to talk to the Internet, not systemd
Systemd plays havoc with Kubernetes defaults and kills DNS. Here's how to fix that.
Learning Kubernetes at Home: Becoming the Helmsman
In this post, I try to setup a Kubernetes cluster and make sense of the basic types of objects that Kubernetes revolves around.
mDNS Name Resolution in Linux
Bonjour is really useful on Windows and macOS. It turns out that you can also use it on Linux!