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bulk renaming files with powershell

I bet you’ve run into situations where you have a ton of files that should be partially renamed, but Windows can’t help you with the bulk renaming because it can only do “Your new name (1).jpg” to “Your new name (50).jpg”. Well, it’s time to whip up a PowerShell session and use some find-replace magic […]

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using git for journaling, part 2

In a previous post, I explained how you can use Git for journaling, or keeping a work log. I’ve been using this for a while, and of course I’ve been writing a bit of a PowerShell script to make this easier, and not have to use the Git commands all the time. Here’s how I […]

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how to upgrade to .NET framework 4.8

A while ago, I had to migrate a large legacy .NET Framework website to the latest 4.8 version. Recently, I had to do this again for a number of smaller projects, so I had to look up my notes again on how to do that.Maybe someone out there will still find some use in these […]

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blocking AI crawlers with robots.txt

You probably heard about those big nasty tech companies that crawl the internet and use anyone’s content to train their Large Language Models. They might be crawling your blog or website, without caring about any licensing or copyright restrictions you listed. Well, you can use your robots.txt file to stop them from using your content […]

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vim: switching from vundle to the minpac plugin manager

Let’s geek out over Vim once more. So Vundle, the package manager I was using until now, suddenly broke on me. It hasn’t been updated for a long time, so it was bound to happen I guess. Vim now has a plugin/package managing thing built-in, but it still requires manually adding packages to the file […]