Introducing NameCamper: Claim Your Dream Username
You know that perfect username you’ve been eyeing? The one that’s been taken since 2012 by someone who posted twice and disappeared? Or that domain name that would be perfect for your brand, but some squatter is …
Introducing go-goldapi: a Go Package for Querying Precious Metal Prices
Photo by Stanislaw Zarychta on Unsplash Would you like to have automation workflows or alerting related to current spot pricing of gold, silver, platinum or palladium? Of course you would! But first you need to grab …
How to Draw a Dick on the City of Bellevue’s “Report Gatherings” Map With Go
The city of Bellevue, Washington recently debuted an online tool to allow residents to report “gatherings” or other violations of Governor Inslee’s “shelter in place” order. Bellevue Police Department plans to make a …
Let's Build a Computer Together — the Martin files
In this edition of “the Martin files” I cobbled together Martin’s gigantic twitter thread (with his permission) documenting a complete gaming PC build. This is the highest budget thread to date! Have fun! 🖥️ LET’S …
API Basics With Postman — the Martin files
This week I’m stealing all of Martin Castro’s hardwork from Twitter (with his permission) to bring you his guide on using Postman to consume APIs. This is a great way to test an API before you starting writing code. …
Unboxing Hardware: Photon Particle Wifi — the Martin files
Here’s another edition of Martin Castro live tweeting hardware and me collecting it all into a single digestible blog post. The rest of this post is direct from Martin’s finger tips here. Enjoy! Let’s check out this …
Getting Started With Microcontrollers — the Martin files
My buddy Martin Castro likes to live tweet hardware projects. When he’s done you have a detailed step-by-step guide that anyone can follow along. However, since it’s a Twitter thread it is quickly lost to time. “The …
Make a Stack Overflow Reputation Leader Board for Your Team With Python
If you’re a developer or student you probably have a Stack Overflow account. If you’re as (overly) competitive as I am you probably compare your Stack Overflow reputation with your colleagues. If you’re a real weirdo …
How To: SSH to Your Azure Linux VMs With Username and Password From Windows, Linux or Mac
If you’re looking to generate SSH keys and use them to login to an Azure Linux VM then good on you because that’s the recommended and most secure method to access your VMs. It’s readily documented here in official …
How To: Embed Your Azure Web App Bot in Any Web Page
Embedding an Azure bot in your web page is actually very simple but the Azure portal doesn’t make it obvious how to do this. The portal blade for bots is geared towards developers who are integrating bots into channels …