Last post I talked about setting up a serverless website on Azure using BLOB storage. What I didn’t go into is how to publish files to that site automatically. Yes, you can use the BLOB explorer to manually upload your files but seriously, who wants to do that kind of boring task if you can […]
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Years ago I ran into a website offering crude design advice. I thought it would be funny to make something similar for programming advice or guidelines. I started with a one-page website with a bunch of tips and then after a while forgot about it. Recently I ran into that project again and figured I […]
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Conway’s game of life
Recently the mathematician John Horton Conway passed away, who invented the well known Game Of Life. An algorithmic game I ended up building a version of in HTML at some point for fun. After seeing the news I remembered I still had this sitting around on my hard drive somewhere. So in memoriam, here it […]
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url decode and encode text in vim
Vim has a lot of cool features, and one of them is the ability to take the text you are editing and run it through whatever text-parsing tool you like. This tool can be a shell command, a standalone executable, or your very own script in your favorite scripting language.The magic is all in this […]
I wrote about using Grid computing to fight cancer a while back using leftover Azure credits. So now with Corona having the world in its grip, it’s time to shift our attention to that nasty virus and throw some CPU cycles at it instead. If you have an Ubuntu machine running somewhere and you want […]