It looks like the RTO saga has finally reached my company, so most of our engineering force will be coming into the office a couple a days a week, including myself. Well, I guess it was announced a couple months ago, but it’s finally taking effect as of June. Personally…

Initially I wrote an FFmpeg script to give my YouTube videos a Gaussian blur frame, but I realized FFmpeg had actually been ported to WebAssembly, so I made a little web app to do it all from the browser. Links Web App: framr.dev FFmpeg Script: framr-script Rainmeter and Background Terminal After I built my first…

So apparently APITable is scraping emails from people that starred Bitwarden and then sending out misleading emails that appear to be from Bitwarden… Last week I woke up to an email with big, bold text: “Are you still using Bitwarden?” Yes, I am. I love Bitwarden. Especially considering the massive…

I have wasted more time than I’d like to admit looking for a resume builder. All of the “free” ones I’ve found end up putting some type of watermark on it (and only disclose this after you’ve spent an hour building your new fancy resume in an attempt to sunk-cost…

Blazor is pretty cool, I hope Microsoft keeps investing into it. The JavaScript Obligation I’ve been consistently obligated to use JavaScript whenever I want to build a web application. Thankfully I discovered TypeScript when learning Angular a few years back which has reduced my stress levels tangibly. …

Why did I not care enough to try and optimize my experience writing HTML for the past decade? So you can select text in VS Code, open the command palette (ctrl+shift+p)and select Emmet: Wrap with Abbreviation, which will open an input box that you can start typing your desired tag…

I built a decentralized, p2p message client with no backend server that runs entirely in the browser. So I’m a huge proponent of the decentralization of the web, and not just in the realm of cryptocurrency and NFT’s. I think the future of the web is true decentralization, and…

Learning SQL is a pain. Using SQL is a pain. Be better. Choose .NET. Choose LINQPad. Early last year I was building out a database site for a game and decided it would be a good opportunity to start playing with Entity Framework (or EF Core, as it’s now…

Did you know Brave has their own cryptocurrency? My brain automatically filters out all popups, promotions and otherwise unrelated distractions that the internet is plagued with these days. But it’s 2022, I can’t be the only one. Anyway, while I’ve been using Brave for over a year now, I haven’t…