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Development

Cloud 9 min read

Self-Hosted Git and CI/CD for fun (and profit?)

When I first got into running my own servers, I liked to host just about anything I could (and would actually use), which became a bit of a pain as you have to manage the operating system, system libraries, various software runtimes, create /etc/init.d scripts, assemble your own
Development 4 min read

Debugging Third-Party Code in Visual Studio

This post shows how you can debug code that you didn't write and don't have the source code for.
Development 6 min read

Speeding up some very slow .NET builds

What do you do when upgrading Windows makes your code compile a lot slower? This, of course.
Development 4 min read

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.)
Development 3 min read

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.
Development 6 min read

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.
Development 3 min read

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.
Development 7 min read

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.
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