C# How to Get the Standard Metadata for a PDF With iText7 and C# In this post I'll take you through getting the standard set of metadata for a PDF with iText7 and C# in a way you can understand what's happening and just copy it into your codebase.
Pokemon Pulls From Opening 36 Pokémon Lost Origin Booster Packs This is the record of all the different pulls from a Pokémon TCG Lost Origin booster box containing 36 boosters.
C# Can’t Debug After Running Benchmark.net Quick post to explain why you might not be able to debug your C# Visual Studio code or debug your unit tests after running Benchmark.net.
C# How to Get All the Metadata for a PDF With iText7 and C# In this post I'll take you through getting all the metadata for a PDF with iText7 and C# in a way you can understand what's happening and just copy it into your codebase.
Ghost How to Have an Animated Feature Image in Your Ghost Blog Post An animated feature image is always eye-catching but Ghost only allows specific file types for header images. In this post we'll look at an easy way to attract readers with an animated feature image.
.NET The Weird Things Roslyn Gets up To Ever wanted to see some strange, interesting, and weird .NET behaviour and features? What about bizarre C# to baffle? If so, then welcome to this little curated and peculiar collection.
C# Writing My Own Pokémon Spritesheet Generator in C# For my Living Dex project I wanted to control how the Pokémon spritesheets work. There are existing spritesheet generators, but I wanted to make my own in .NET for fun and learning.
Pokemon Making a Living Dex: Part 10 - Pokémon Legends Arceus With a fascinating break away from some established norms, Pokémon Legends Arceus brings in old mythicals and new forms for the Living Dex project.
Roomba Living With a Roomba i7 Six Months On - Review At the end of 2021 my household got a Roomba i7. We've been using it on and off and this is my review of the first six months.
C# How to Natively Read .tgz Files With the New C# TarReader Class In .NET 7 we can now natively decompress/unpack and open .tgz/.tar.gz files/archives without third party libraries or complex code.
Game Boy Featured Why Did I Write a Gameboy Color Image Decolouriser? Come read about how I created this tool to more cleanly import Gameboy Color images as backgrounds in GB Studio because sometimes the colour definition gets lost when using the GB Studio tools.
.NET .NET AOT Resources: 2022 Edition This post is all my accumulated notes about AOT of as of 2022. Whether it's CoreRT, Experimental AOT, or .NET 7 it has notes about articles, documentation, flags, and gotchas.
.NET .NET Deployment Models and Features With Examples If you've ever wanted a better understanding of: Self-contained, trimming, single file, Native AOT, and ReadyToRun for .NET deployments, this post will take you through with worked examples.
GitHub How Do I Get .NET Preview Versions in GitHub Actions? I wanted to setup a GitHub Action to build and test a .NET Preview project. Come in to read about how you can add a preview .NET version to your GitHub Action.
.NET .NET 7 Self-Contained, NativeAOT, and ReadyToRun Cheatsheet Cheatsheet for self-contained, trimming, single file, Native AOT, and ReadyToRun for project files.
Ghost Removing AdSense Ads for Your Paying Members on Ghost How do I remove my Google AdSense ads for my paid Ghost memberships? Turns out, Ghost has made it easy to do.
Pokemon Making a Living Dex: Appendix C - Miscellaneous Numbers Appendix C is about any real world numbers the project has.
Pokemon Making a Living Dex: Part 9 - Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl This part takes us to playing Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl. Exploring a nostalgic remake and bagging a lot of new mythicals for the project.
GitHub Compiling/Installing the pokesprite-gen Project from GitHub As of writing this, there is a slight problem when running the pokesprite-gen GitHub repo. In this post I'll outline how to get pokesprite-gen running and ready to use.
Ghost Plugins, Add-Ons, and Libraries Used on My Ghost Blog Here are the little extra JavaScript plugins that give my Ghost blog that little extra kick.
Ink An Ink Proof of Concept From Script to Android App Come with me to see a proof of concept from a simple Ink story to an Android mobile app in only a few steps using Inky, InkJS, and Cordova.
Four Day Work Week Four Day Work Weeks in New Zealand With post-2020 working models still up in the air, I decided to take a look at what New Zealand companies are publicly announcing four day work weeks, and tracking them via a GitHub repo.
Browser Console Featured How I Added an Animation to the Browser Devtools Console You might have heard of colouring browser devtool console output with CSS or even using an image. But this post will take you through my journey of making an animated SVG and how I put it on my console window. Check out the dev tools yourself!
Pokemon Making a Living Dex: Part 8 - Odds and Ends Round 2 Welcome to the second mixed bag post of the Living Dex project where we'll be quickly revisiting Sword and Shield, taking a stop at the Nintendo eShop, rounding it off with even deeper miscellaneous topics.
Meme Vines I Quote Daily A time capsule of my commonly quoted vines that I'll reference in day to day life.
