Windows Terminal Educating Myself On the New Windows Terminal In this post, I catch up on what the Windows Terminal is, how to use it and how to modify it to my liking in such a way that I can begin using it daily.
C# Featured QR Code Pings With Azure Functions and Azure SignalR A fun little project where a QR code gets an animated rainbow border when it's scanned. The post contains a working demo and an explanation of all the steps behind it using Azure Functions and an Azure SignalR Service.
Ghost How I Easily Set My Links to Open in a New Tab for My Ghost.org Blog It's really easy to set up opening links in new windows/tabs for a Ghost blog. This really short post will tell you how.
Game Boy Advance Backing up My Game Boy and Game Boy Advance Saves With an InsideGadgets GBxCart RW Using the InsideGadgets GBxCart RW I was able to really easily back up my old Game Boy and Game Boy Advance game saves and ROMs. Really simple and quick.
Pokemon Comparing My 2003 "Competitive" Pokémon Lineup to 2021 Standards Looking back at the Pokémon team decisions made by kid-Niko. Spoilers: They aren't great.
Pokemon Let's Look at Pokémon Gen 1 Part 1: How Are Trainers Kept Within City Boundaries? Taking a look at what keeps a player within the bounds of a city in the first generation of Pokémon games.
Pokemon Looking At Pixels Part 3: Let's Look at Each Building Type in Gen 1 Pokémon A dive into what different buildings exist in Pokémon RBY, where they exist and a little peek into how tiles are used to construct them.
Pokemon Looking At Pixels Part 2: Buildings in Gen 1 Pokémon Cities For the second post in this series, we'll take a look at the arrangement of buildings in each generation 1 Pokémon city by looking at: 1. Each type of building for a town/route 2. Any unique buildings 3. Number of buildings 4. Average height of the building
Powershell Because it is being used by another process: Why There Isn't a No-Dependency, One Line Powershell Solution While Powershell is incredibly flexible, the openness lends itself to be non-specific in some cases, such as for finding out what is keeping a lock on a file.
Pixel Art Looking At Pixels Part 1: Characters Throughout my 20's I've had a here and there fascination with pixel art. It's both Game Boy nostalgia and fascination how much can be done with so little - a concept that finds home in my love for software micro-optimisations (very often unnecessary but
Studies Quick Takeaways From My Favourite Studies This is a living list of studies that I either really enjoyed or spoke to me in some way. Eating Really Improves Decisions Extraneous factors in judicial decisionsAre judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply legal reasons to the facts of a case
C# Featured Why is .GetAwaiter().GetResult() bad in C#? Why is .GetAwaiter().GetResult(), or .Wait() or .Result bad? It ends up boiling down to deadlocks and threadpool starvation. This post gives a gentle, high up look at why this may happen.
Emotion My Checklist for Getting Through an "Everything Is Awful" Day/Week/Month When we go through a rough time in life, it's easy to start missing out on self care. This is my checklist of what I need to watch out for to have little wins each day.
Emotion A peek at the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System We take a quick look into the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous systems. Also known for giving us stress and good feelings respectively.
Procedural Generation Generating a Procedural 2D Map in C#: Part 3: The Redo Taking lessons from Part 1 and Part 2, I'll be taking a dive into creating solid foundations for future parts. We'll be looking at flexibility for generation, saving, and printing.
C# Tricky Operator Names in C# A list of symbol based C# operators, what they do and the links to documentation for times when searching question marks doesn't return what I want.
C# Pooling in C# We all know pooling is useful for performance, so let's check out what .NET comes with out of the box and see how it's all used.
C# Featured Looking at Entity Framework 6 Execution Strategies, Specifically SqlAzureExecutionStrategy Implementing SqlAzureExecutionStrategy is easy, go ahead and lift it from here but this is also a deep dive into what makes it tick by looking at the EF6 source code for Execution Strategies.
Workplace Featured Don't Call Staff "Resources" I'm not a fan of dehumanizing staff and referring to them simply as "resources". I describe what else we can call staff as well as my thoughts on the topic.
Power Consumption Cost of Electricity in a Two Person Flat in Auckland, New Zealand Taking a look at power consumption and power cost of a flat between 2017 and 2019.
Procedural Generation Generating a Procedural 2D Map in C#: Part 2 - Smooth Transitions The next step: making a stiff, jagged looking map into something a little smoother.
Procedural Generation Generating a Procedural 2D Map in C#: Part 1 - The Attempt Trying my hand at procedurally created 2D tile maps with C# from the nostalgic times of Pokémon.
C# Combining PDF documents using iText7 and C# Using a list of PDFs, it's easy to merge together all the documents into one.
C# Deleting pages of a PDF with iText7 and C# It's easy to use iText7 and C# to delete pages of a PDF. A byte array of that PDF and a list of integers is all you need.
