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How I setup up Windows machines for development

I just got a new Windows laptop to write some code and figured I might as well document the setup process so that I have something to refer to in the future. I have setup my machines this way since switching back to Windows in 2019 and it has served

Fixing 100% CPU usage on DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets

DigitalOcean offers $6 droplets (Virtual Machines) perfect for light workloads. I use it for my blog and love it because of its price and performance. However, over the last couple of weeks, my blog has been acting up. I've been receiving downtime alerts from UptimeRobot. By the time

Writing code could be fun for you

Every now and then, I come across a post that talks about how complex writing code is. These are my thoughts on the subject.

Working on a new side project

I told myself at the start of the year that I won't work on new side projects... but there's so much cool stuff happening in the .NET space I can't resist.

Hacking into my dlink router

My ISP has me on a DHCP network and so I don't have a fixed IP address — it keeps changing. The internet, however, occasionally stops working and I need to log into my router's admin panel and perform a DHCP release+renew to fix it. I

Publishing GitBook to Github Pages

Markdown is nice. And it'd be really nice to get documentation or some notes up there with just Markdown, right? GitBook lets us do just that. From their website: GitBook is a modern publishing toolchain. Making both writing and collaboration easy. Here's an example of a

The love OAuth gets from the developer community

So I've been trying to fix this OAuth related bug for a few days now and I'm finally getting done with it. I read this article called OAuth has ruined everything by Burke Holland and then OAuth 2.0 and the road the hell by Eran

How I started to code

My first encounter with computer programs was when I was 10 years old. All I could do on a computer before that was use Microsoft Office, MS Paint and play computer games (like Prince of Persia, Dangerous Dave, etc.). My brother had just joined a C++ crash course during the