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Visual Studio Code Editor Tabs

30 Jun 2024
File editor tabs in Visual Studio Code.
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Using Thymeleaf Fragments with HTMX

05 Jun 2024
A quick look at using Thymeleaf fragments as a way to provide HTML responses to Ajax requests from HTMX tags.

Are You Still Not Using SRI Hashes?

03 Jun 2024
I found some CDN resources in a project of mine that were not using SRI hashes…

French Dictionary Word Order

31 May 2024
Word order conventions for French dictionaries - and how to recreate them using Java.

Using Jdbi with Java Records

22 Jan 2024
A very quick example, showing one possible way of using Jdbi with Java records.

Amazon Linux 2023 and cron

12 Jan 2024
Amazon Linux 2023 does not include a cron daemon. Here is one way to add it (and start it).

The CSS Outline Property

02 Jan 2024
My browser was drawing a thick blue line around a box in my web page, and I had no idea why…

Filtering JSON using JMESPath

11 Dec 2023
JMESPath is a powerful library for querying JSON. It is used by the Amazon AWS CLI via the CLI --query option. Here are some example usages - including how to extract a JSON structure’s parent value when filtering on child data.

Pageant Suddenly Stopped Working

30 Nov 2023
After years of working with no issues, my Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) suddenly stopped working. Why?

Paste into PuTTY

29 Nov 2023
Paste text into PuTTY… Simple, right…?