Rob Janssen

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zoxide has forever improved the way I navigate in the terminal.

For the longest time, I've used cd exclusively for navigating in the terminal. However, when it comes to nested directories, the only way to speed this up was to either use aliases or my shell history. Since discovering zoxide, that's all changed... Links: zoxide: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/z

Stow has forever changed the way I manage my dotfiles

Managing dotfiles used to be a challenge, and despite numerous guides it was always more complex than I liked to. That was before I discovered GNU Stow, which has simplified the management of dotfiles, considerably. # Links - GNU Stow: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ - Video Repo: https://githu

Secure a .NET Core API with Bearer Authentication

In this step by step tutorial, I show you how to secure a .NET Core API with JWT Bearer Authentication, using Azure Active Directory as the Identity and Access Management Layer. I also show you how to write a “secure” API client to call and authenticate to the secured API endpoint. We use the Mi

Canceling JWT tokens in .NET Core

Quite some time ago I published an article (along with the source code) about refreshing the JWTtokens. In the following post, I’m going to focus on canceling the token, thus it can’t be used by anyone else.

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)

There Ain’t No Such Thing As Plain Text. It does not make sense to have a string without knowing what encoding it uses. You can no longer stick your head in the sand and pretend that “plain” text is ASCII.

The Easiest Scheduling for Your .NET Applications

Check out my courses on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com Get the source code: https://mailchi.mp/dometrain/73q5eabiehm Become a Patreon and get special perks: https://www.patreon.com/nickchapsas Hello, everybody, I'm Nick, and in this video, I will show you how you can implement easy scheduling fo

Pipeline-oriented programming - Scott Wlaschin - NDC Porto 2023

This talk was recorded at NDC Porto in Porto, Portugal. #ndcporto #ndcconferences #functionalprogramming #developer #softwaredeveloper Attend the next NDC conference near you: https://ndcconferences.com https://ndcporto.com/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel and learn every day: /@NDC

MySQL's random number generator

MySQL and MariaDB have a RAND function that is supposed to return random numbers. However, the numbers it returns are not particularly random. MySQL and MariaDB both have a RAND function that returns a “random” number. From the MariaDB docs:

Apache Nifi Crash Course

Introduction: This workshop will provide a hands on introduction to simple event data processing and data flow processing using a Sandbox on students’ personal machines. Format: A short introductory lecture to Apache NiFi and computing used in the lab followed by a demo, lab exercises and a Q&A s

Identity

ASP.NET Core Identity is a .NET API through which we can make login functionality in our App. Besides this Identity helps to manage users, passwords, roles, policies, tokens, claims, profiles, authorization and authentication. ASP.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

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