I have a few old podcast series that are not available online anymore. Every now and then, I enjoy listening to an old episode. I keep them in a hard drive connected to a Raspberry Pi, which serves them over the local network. Then I connect to this share on Read more…
Spreadsheets are quite powerful tools. They can also act as a simple database with an intuitive UI. You can use the spreadsheet as a temporary database and GSheets API as a CRUD API while you prototype your own application. This article will teach you how to manage Google Sheets using Read more…
As a Raspberry PI fan, I like to read The MagPi Magazine, which is freely available as PDFs. The problem is I tend to forget to download it manually every month, so I decided to automate the process. I use Calibre as my ebook management software (I blogged about my Read more…
I’m not a big fan of Youtube’s web application. I’d like to categorise my subscriptions, but YouTube doesn’t allow this. I have multiple Google accounts, and I use them to group certain videos. When I’m in the mode of watching software development videos, I switch to one account. If I’m Read more…
I like using Twilio Voice and SMS APIs to develop voice and text-based applications. I thought an SMS-based game would be fun to implement. Prerequisites If you want to follow along, you will need the following: A Twilio account A Twilio number with SMS capabilities A free ngrok account and ngrok Read more…
In a previous article, we looked into how to develop your own CLI tools with dotnet CLI and CliFx library. This article builds on that knowledge and adds more advanced features of CliFx. It also adds a new library called Sharprompt to add interactive features to your CLI. Without further Read more…
Spreadsheets are great tools. They are user interface and database combined in one application and have been infinitely helpful for ages. In this post, we are going to look into a handy NuGet package called ClosedXML to create and manipulate Excel spreadsheets by using a CLI demo application. Demo Use Read more…
Command-Line Interfaces (CLI) are invaluable tools for a developer. We use them daily to interact with AWS, Docker, GitHub, dotnet etc. We can develop scripts based on CLI commands to carry out complex tasks. In this post, we are going to develop a CLI for ourselves. Let’s get started! Getting Read more…
In the previous post, we discussed using the var keyword. One of the primary use cases of the var keyword is anonymous types. In this post, we are going to look closer into anonymous types. Anonymous types An anonymous type is a nameless class that inherits from an object. The Read more…
The var keyword in C# gives the programmer freedom to declare variables with implicit types. However, when to use it is a highly debated subject in the C# community. This post will look at the origins of the var keyword and our conclusion on when to use it. Origins Microsoft Read more…
