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.NET Standard Continuous Integration with Travis CI and Github

After porting FlacLibSharp to .NET Standard, publishing it to NuGet and building it on Linux. I felt I needed to add Travis CI continuous builds to my Github repo. I thought that this

Building and Testing a .NET Standard library on Linux

I maintain a library with a modest number of users (at least two!) that can read FLAC metadata, in .NET. Recently I ported it to .NET Standard and published it on NuGet. Porting

Brainf*** interpreter optimization excercise

As an excercise I wanted to make a bf interpreter in .NET Core. I wanted to see how fast I could make it go. Introduction The language we'll be interpreting is very small.

Learning .NET from the experts (Part 1)

Ever since the .NET source code has been available, I roam through it now and then to learn some things. I'm assuming the people who create .NET Framework and .NET Core are experts

Replacing CrashPlan for Backups

I have some files on my computer that I do not want to loose. The most important ones are - of course - pictures of loved ones. But also some other things I

What is "mining bitcoin"?

For a long time, the concept of "bitcoin mining" was very mysterious to me. People would have their devices "compute" some things and receive some "Bitcoin" as

Porting FlacLibSharp to .NET Standard (Part 2)

In Part 1 I talked about how I got from a .NET Framework 2.0 project to a .NET Standard 1.3 project. In this post, I'll write down what I did to

Porting FlacLibSharp to .NET Standard (Part 1)

With the release of .NET Standard 2.0 I thought it was time to convert FlacLibSharp to .NET Standard. FlacLibSharp is a .NET library I once made to read and write metadata of

Record Screen to GIF

I needed a quick way to capture my screen and save it to a gif file. Found Screen to Gif is easy to use. If you have chocolatey installed it's easy to install

Ways to open the Command Prompt (Windows 10)

I was just watching a course on pluralsight (The .NET Ecosystem: The Big Picture, by Barry Luijbregts) and saw - totally unrelated to the course - a way to open a command prompt

Building Electron apps for Windows on Debian

I'm playing around with Electron lately. One of the things I wanted to do was build the Electron Application for Windows on my Linux development box, which runs Debian. I used electron-builder for

Introducing blog.aaronlenoir.com

This month I was able to get https://blog.aaronlenoir.com up and running. This means I got: a domain name (aaronlenoir.com); an easier URL for my blog (it used to be

Parallel Linq

Resharper tells us to convert for(each) loops to Linq. An argument I read was that Linq queries offer options for parallelization. Iterate over each item in parallel, making it faster on hardware

Akka.NET: Creating a File Download Actor with Progress Reporting

In this post, I walk through the creation of a single Actor for Akka.NET. It will download files and report its progress to other Actors. I'll go through all details but might

Integrating WPF and Akka.NET

I'm wondering how to combine an Akka.NET actor system with a WPF front-end. The Actor Model provides a nice way to build concurrent systems. There are several implementations for .NET. Orleans and

Detect System Idle in Windows Applications

I maintain a small tool to track my own activities through the day. For this, I wanted a feature to automatically log when I was "idle". So I'd know how long

Automatically reset desktop

When using Windows, I always end up with a messy desktop. Temporary files, useless shortcuts, small notes, an "OldIcons" folder ... What I would like is a way for my desktop to

Podcast List

Latest update: 28 september 2019: I listen to a lot less podcasts and a lot more music now-a-days. I have a long commute and very bad radio shows. So in the car, I

Switched to Ghost

As you can see, the blog changed looks, because I moved from Octopress to Ghost. Recently, I got in some serious trouble with my Octopress blog, to the point where I couldn't publish

Fix My Blog: xC3 on US-ASCII

After a month or two of abscence from the blog I wrote up something small this week. Quite unexpected, when I pushed my post to openshift for publishing, my blog broke. The styles

Static File Server With Go (Part 3: Organizing the code)

In my previous post I talked about how I changed some of the default behaviour of Go's http.FileServer to fit my limited needs. Basically, I had built a number of http.Handler

Static Files on OpenShift with Go (Part 2)

In my previous post, I talked about getting a very basic static file server up and running on openshift using Go. I was unhappy with several things: Automatic directory listings: I do not

Static Files on Openshift with Go (Part 1)

I've been looking to set up a lightweight application to serve files on one of my three complementary small "gears" on openshift (a PaaS solution by Red Hat). I wanted to

Going Dutch?

Note: I have put a short English summary at the bottom of this post. Een tijdje geleden raakte ik er eindelijk van overtuigd dat het, ondanks het grote aanbod, toch een goed idee