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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Cybersecurity: Always a house of cards

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From Hacker News' Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials : Cybersecurity researchers have...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Beautiful html coverage reports in C# with Cobertura

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Coverage reports in C# with Cobertura In the last contract I completed, we were building WebAPI microservices in C#, and part of our build ...
Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Apple's payment changes are a bigger deal than I thought

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From "Amazon now has a ‘Get book’ button in its iOS Kindle app" on theverge.com : Apple has appealed the decision, but is also c...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Carriers can slam-install apps on your Android phone?!!

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If you needed an excuse to get on your Apple high horse, I got a new one yesterday. My super old Android phone -- used essentially only whe...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Does your cat know regex?

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Okay, hopefully you're not letting your cat do this, but that's funny . Any time I use regex, I worry that I shouldn't. It'...
Monday, January 06, 2025

Apple Watches with LTE might be able to call 911 without a subscription

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If you believe a post on reddit titled, "UPDATE: Apple Watch Series 3 LTE *CAN* Call Emergency Services without an associated phone pla...
Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Writing a Chrome Extension (devtools, action or `document` types, and payment collection)

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Okay, let's write a Chrome extension. I've done this before, but couldn't really remember how, and since "manifest version ...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

HomePod, Siri, and Music Store Songs: A Perfect Disaster

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I purchase music outright because I'm old. I often buy from what at least used to be called the iTunes Music Store. The biggest advantag...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Unexpected failure? InvalidOperationException.

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From stackoverflow.com : Taken from MSDN's page on InvalidOperationException: "InvalidOperationException is used in cases when th...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Using Home Depot dowels to finish Ikea furniture

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TL;DR -- If you Ikea stiffed you some 101350 fluted dowels, you can buy 5/16" dowels from Home Depot , 50 for under $4. Depending on...