I Am NotMyself

Guitar

Beginner Theory: Learning the Fretboard Exercise I

I have been reading Desi Serna's Fretboard Theory book. The very first thing he asks you to do in the first chapter is to learn the natural notes on the 6th and 5th strings.They look something like this: E String: * EF-G-A-BC-D-E -> up the neck * E-D-CB-A-G-FE

Guitar

How to play Guitar by David Fair of Half Japanese

Someone on Mastodon suggested this article written by David Fair of the band Half Japanese on how to play guitar. I found it inspiring so I am copying it here verbatim as inspiration and easy access later. How to Play Guitar David Fair of Half Japanese I taught myself to

Guitar

Learning Guitar the Hard Way

I have been trying to learn guitar since I was around 15 year old. Back around 1990-ish, my father bought me a Kay hollow body electric from a friend of his. I bought some new strings and strung it upside down because I am left handed and then picked up

Guitar

Using Rocksmith+ to Learn Guitar

I have been using Rocksmith+ for the last few months to teach myself how to play Guitar. I thought it might be a good idea to write my practice down somewhere where it might be helpful to somebody else and I can point to when beginner questions come up.

bash

Your Terminal and You: Dotfiles

Have you ever watched a skilled engineer pull up a terminal, issue a few keystrokes and kick off a whole series of processes in seconds? It can be downright magical, some even wizard-like. A few are hard to distinguish from cackling necromancers raising processes from the dead. I'll

.NET Core

Debugging .NET Core via Symbol Server on OSX in VSCode

In a previous life, I was a heavy user of Visual Studio on Windows. But for the last few years I have been working exclusively on Mac OSX and using VSCode as my primary editor. One feature of the full Visual Studio that I miss is integrating with a Symbol

.NET Core

Webpack Proxy Configuration for .NET Core 3 SPA Projects

On August 5th of 2019, Daniel Roth announced on the aspnetcore repository that Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices and Microsoft.AspNetCore.NodeServices were being made obsolete in the coming .NET Core 3 release. As you can see from the annourncement issue, there has been quite a bit of commentary from folks who

Twitch.tv

Pop-Up Saturday: Vue.js, Vuex, Websockets, Vuetify

In this stream, we cover an overview of the Bivrost frontend, how websockets are managed using Vuex plugins and end with some conversion work using Vuetify.

Vue.js

Implementing Websocket Plugins for Vuex

Vuex is a state management plugin for Vue.js. It allows you to centrally store all data needed for a Vue application and manage mutations (changes) to that data. Out of the box it works really well for working with data from an API. But when working with realtime data

Twitch.tv

Bivrost: Managing State with Vuex

In this stream we do some hacking on Bivrost my Vue.js/ASP.NET Core Twitch bot and overlay system. We learn some good techniques on Vuex.

Twitch.tv

There's No Place Like Home

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Join me for a catch-up session. We will discuss some upcoming events, what's new at Auth0 and a project I have been working on called Bivrost.

Twitch.tv

Securing Vue.js with Auth0

In this stream, we cover updating a Vue.js application to use an external identity provider to authenticate using OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.

Node.js

Building A Twitch Screen-Scraper With Node

Twitch.tv's API does not offer a way to fetch scheduled events. In this stream, we take a stab at writing a screen-scraper to fetch event information for a given stream team.

Node.js

How Do I Verify a JWT Token If I Am Not Using Express?

In this popup stream, I show how you can verify a jwt token for any framework you want to use by hand.

.NET Core

Broxburn: Setting Up Continuous Deployment With Zeit Now

In this session we will cover dockerizing the app and setting up continuous deployment.

.NET Core

Broxburn: Getting Started Setting Up The Initial Project

In this session, we will cover setting up the initial project structure and commit it to source control.

Guide

2019 Live Streaming Setup

Here is a nice linked list of my current Twitch.tv streaming setup to direct people to when they ask on stream.

.NET Core

Running .NET Core React App on OSX, Docker and Zeit's Now

In this sneak preview stream recording, I demonstrate how to run the .net core react template in OSX, build a docker image to host a release build of the application and automatically deploy the whole thing to Zeit's Now platform.

Webtasks

Creating a GitHub Issues Autoresponder using Webask.io

A Cry in the Twitterverse That sounds like a job for @auth0’s serverless platform! Does GitHub have a webhook for when a new issue is opened? — Ted Neward (@tedneward) July 18, 2017 Yesterday Brad Wilson tweeted about his frustration with people posting poor quality issues on his various GitHub

Docker

Simplest Possible ASP.NET Core Web Application in Docker for Windows

Create Project First, let's create a directory for our solution and create a couple folders. mkdir docker-web mkdir .\docker-web\src mkdir .\docker-web\scripts cd docker-web This simply creates a directory docker-web for the solution and two sub folders src for source code and scripts for powershell scripts we

Azure

Zero to Azure CLI in Seconds Using Docker

I wanted to look into deploying a microservices based app to a Docker instance in Azure this morning. I found a guide that I wanted to walk though. In the getting started section of the guide, it directed me to install the Azure CLI 2.0. The CLI is python

bash

Setting Up Powerline Shell on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Installing Fonts Powerline Shell uses custom patched fonts for the glyph icons it uses. Contrary to the documentation, you actually need to install these fonts in Windows and set the console host font to one of them. This is pretty simple to do; first clone the repository, install the fonts

Import 2022-11-28 19:29

Unit Testing Costs Too Much And Slows A Project Down

The company I contract through has a tradition of having monthly lunch where all of us contractors get together, eat, share war stories and on occasion present new techniques or ideas. Today's presentation was on fundamentals of unit testing. The presenter had put the presentation together as an

PowerShell

NuGet, Dependency Management & A Single Point of Package Truth

For the last few years, I have been doing a lot of contracting on enterprise .NET systems. Microsoft's focus on open source has led to a lot of adoption in my local area. I am seeing things like Bootstrap, Angular & AutoMapper getting used more and more. NuGet

.NET Core

Learn C# on Windows, OSX or Linux with the .NET Core Koans

Background During the height of the ALT.NET movement, I became determined to learn another language/stack outside of the current Microsoft .NET environment. At the time there was a lot of buzz around Ruby and the open, friendly and inviting culture surrounding it. I dove in head first and