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I am a Principal Product Engineer, tinkerer, nerd, trail explorer. This is my brain dump.
Signing GitHub Commits With YubiKey
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Make your GitHub life easier with no-touch commit signing.
The Rise Of User-Hostile Software
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Or why software we get today is not the software we should strive to be getting tomorrow.
Reverse Engineering The Stream Deck
·4220 words
Figuring out how the Stream Deck ticks, and how I can make it do what I want.
Announcing PowerToys Awake To Caffeinate Your Windows PC
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For some time, I needed a way to use caffeinate on Windows. If you are coming from macOS, you know how useful this utility can be when you want to keep the computer awake for some definite or indefinite time. So, following the engineer mindset, I decided to build my own, starting with a PowerShell script.
Unlocking My Spotify Podcast Data
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If you are a podcast owner, one of the things that can be a bit annoying is the multitude of different data points that are available for the show. Now, this is not the fact that there is too much data but rather that this data is scattered across different providers, with different systems, and different ways to manage it.
How I Automated My Vaccine Appointment Search
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Recently, younger residents of British Columbia (BC) became eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19, which is awesome news! If you live in BC, I encourage you to register to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
Downloading Azure Media Services Videos With FFMPEG
·998 words
I encountered a very unique challenge today - I needed to cut a part of a video hosted online with Azure Media Services for reference.
Getting DeepSpeech To Run On Windows
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Getting an open source speech-to-text library up and running on one of the most popular operating systems.
Get GitHub User Contributions With GitHub Skyline API
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2021 turns out to be a good year for folks like myself, that love collecting their own personal metrics.