Typescript and non string Environment Variable parsing
Leaving this here as just a simple get an env variable and 'cast' to boolean is a PITA. But this is what I ended up with. »
Windows Update Fail Microsoft-OneCore-DeveloperMode-Desktop-Package Error = 0x800F081F-0x20003
First - WHY WHY WHY doesn't the installer just deal with this error? What's clear from the message, or at least to me, is that the »
Improving Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL by 500% - Minutes to Seconds
Performance of WSL and Disk IO The core performance killer is related to Windows Defender, and a primary scenarios is running Node package installers that are »
The Travis CLI in a Container
I must be missing it, but I could never find the Travis CLI already built and published on Docker Hub. So, I just pulled together on. »
Visual Studio Code Windows from WSL Bash Ubuntu
If you're launching VS Code from the WSL prompt there are 2 annoyances. The first is the logging messages that appear. The second is it's blocked »
Forcing TLS (HTTPS) on Azure Web Apps for Linux with nginx
For many websites today TLS (fka SSL) is preferred. For Azure Web Apps, all sites automatically listen on both port 80 and 443 - for HTTP »
Cool tool for npm packages and having a local cache
Verdaccio, a fork of Sinopia, to the rescue... use with each command or set forever... npm install --registry http://localhost:4978 Good also to know that »
Quickly get an Ethereum Geth miner node standalone
I know there are other scripts, etc. out there. But I can't seem to find them when I need them. So, I created a GitHub repo »
Ensuring Initializing and Server Side Configuration with Angular 4+
Introduction During the build of the Blockchain Proof of Concept Framework we determined that for greatest configurability and simplistic deployment we needed to have some configuration »
Using Private Docker Registry and Azure WebApps on Linux with ARM Templates
Took a bit of decoding, but an approach to deploy via Azure ARM templates to Azure WebApps on Linux (Preview now), the special properties needed are »
Code Theater with Ali Hajimirza - Blockchain Solves a Webjet problem
Checkout Ali's presentation from Microsoft //Build code theater. Ali Hajimirza - @Ali92HM »
Removing Azure CLI (Python version)
As with many developers churn happens. So, with the Azure CLI I had installed it previously using pip. However, that's no longer the recommend practice. So, »
Reverse Engineering Ethstats Agent for a FluentD plugin
Just spouting about some progress I made on reverse engineering some API for Ethstats agent and dashboard that soon will be a FluentD plugin, and with »
Blockchain followers are not Disruptive Enough
One of the main challenges I see is everyone is bringing traditional business processes forward as an attempt to just lay it down on A or »
Proper npm Global Package Upgrade
Per the npm documentation, this is the script to use: Here's the gist #!/bin/sh set -e set -x for package in $(npm -g outdated --parseable »