Yaakov

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.

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?