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• Nov 10, 2024

  Implementing Stripe Checkout Session in ASP.NET Core Minimal API

  Implementing Stripe Checkout Session in ASP.NET Core Minimal API Introduction There are many, many examples of Stripe integration on the web, including videos. Here’s the problem with every single other example: they HARD CODE values for processing payments. 😩 So, I will walk through my implementation of a Stripe Checkout... read more
• Oct 4, 2024

  Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs

  Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs! 😂 I mean really, everything is light and possibility before it’s observed. That’s why you should have written your tests first. But I digress. I wrote this silly dad joke to test out the new post script. I’m happy to... read more
• Sep 28, 2024

  Handling 404 in a SPA deployed to GitHub Pages

  Credit where it’s due, I found this via this blog post I recently deployed a Single Page Application (SPA) to GitHub Pages. Everything was working great until I tried to refresh the page. When I did that, I got a 404 error. This is because GitHub Pages doesn’t support SPA... read more
• Mar 2, 2024

  Discourse Fresh Install on Mac OS

  Introduction So, most of the install instructions are correct, but there are a few extra steps I had to figure out. I will go through the steps to install Discourse on Mac OS. Prerequisites You need to have the following installed: Homebrew Redis PostgreSQL Ruby Bundler Node.js Yarn Mailhog Sidekiq... read more
• Feb 18, 2024

  The Declaration of Snugland

  🏴‍☠️ The Declaration of Snugland 🏴‍☠️ Be it known to all ye hearty souls, scallywags, and pillow-fort enthusiasts! Whereas the sun doth rise and set upon the softest of cushions, and the moon doth cast its silvery glow upon our fleece blankets, we, the merry band of Snugglers, do hereby... read more
• Feb 8, 2024

  Mangekyo

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• Mar 8, 2023

  My Journey to Setting up a Local Development Mastodon Instance

  I’ve been looking for a way to update my skills in web development recently while searching for a new job. I’ve been working in the IT industry for over 20 years now, mostly in the .NET sphere. I noticed that I was turning down a few really interesting opportunities because... read more
• Feb 8, 2023

  SOLVED: Ruby on Monterey

  I was able to get ruby installed on my MacBook thanks to this guide. I already had GitHub setup, but I didn’t have rbenv installed. Following this guide got me back working in ruby without the friction. read more
• Jan 19, 2023

  GitHub CoPilot

  I was using GitHub CoPilot and ran into a perfect example of keystrokes saved when writing boilerplate code. First, I created a list here with jekyll and copied that list into a DbContext class that I wanted that seed data added to. As I was typing the first model data,... read more
• Jan 18, 2023

  An error occurred while installing racc

  An error occurred while installing racc (1.6.2), and Bundler cannot continue. I’m trying to get jekyll to build on my MacBook, with macOS Monterey v12.6.2 and it’s hanging up on racc. I’m in the middle of trying to fix this on my MacBook Pro, and this answer on dicuss.rubyonrails.org that... read more
• Oct 1, 2022

  PostXING.MetaWeblogProxy - a C# proxy for calling the MetaWeblog API via xml-rpc

  I am happy to announce the release of PostXING.MetaWeblogProxy, a C# proxy for calling the MetaWeblog API via xml-rpc. The project is hosted on GitHub: PostXING.MetaWeblogProxy read more
• Sep 28, 2022

  Starting a new journey

  I started a new job yesterday. It’s great to start a new journey and I’m so excited for what this new job has in store for me. They trusted me from the get-go by giving me a laptop and two monitors. ngl I felt a bit nervous at first -... read more
• Feb 4, 2021

  RE: bluefenix.net

  I’ve upgraded bluefenix.net and changed it up a little bit. The copy that was there previously turned out to be custom lorem ipsum content. I still have some copy to figure out but I’m very pleased with the outcome so far. In the process I upgraded to bootstrap 4 and... read more
• Apr 5, 2020

  bluefenix.net

  a new hope I’m still working on copy, but I’ve relaunched bluefenix.net. It will be linked to this blog right here…I’m putting the finishing touches on my business for Computer Science consulting. Wish me luck. read more
• Sep 19, 2019

  2019-09-19 15:45:33

  I changed the post and draft tasks in the Rakefile for this site to use the current date as the title if the user doesn’t add one. Makes more sense…the title can be changed later if desired. read more

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