Michael Haren’s Wassupy Blog

  1. Visualize Spotify on your TV with projectM, AirPlay, and a Mac
  2. Fixed: Windows.app: Unable to save changes made to the password as the default keychain can’t be accessed.
  3. Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard Acting Weird
  4. Crudely capture working files
  5. Download GEO IP Maxmind Database with Powershell or Bash on Windows/Mac/Linux
  6. Drain Octopus Deploy workers for patching
  7. Command line server TLS certificate inspector
  8. Simple looping video with play/pause
  9. Automatic dog food status light
  10. The Adobe Lightroom backup story is terrible
  11. Expose self-hosted Home Assistant to the internet (and companion app) with Cloudflare Tunnels and Docker Compose
  12. Easy self-hosting websites with Cloudflare and Docker Compose
  13. A dash of whimsy with a tiny loading animation
  14. Printing vcard/vcf files for holiday cards
  15. Faking microseconds with .NET Blazor WASM
  16. Sneaky file uploads with mismatched content types and file extensions
  17. Colorized DNS results from dig
  18. A tiny improvement to your QR Codes
  19. Speeding up .NET DefaultAzureCredential
  20. Running one job at a time with Azure Blob Storage leases
  21. Don’t use async callbacks with System.Threading.Timer
  22. Terraform: add the active workspace name to your command prompt
  23. VSCode: There is no formatter for ‘aspnetcorerazor’ files installed
  24. Another Bittersweet Goodbye
  25. The term ‘Invoke-AzureResourceAction’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet
  26. Fixing “500 : undefined” error in Swashbuckle/Swagger
  27. They don’t make a greeting card for that
  28. Make way for a unique key constraint by renaming/updating duplicate rows in SQL Server
  29. Understanding (That There Exists) An Opposing View
  30. Notify New Relic of Deployments with Chef
  31. How to use services in a NopCommerce Plugin that it doesn’t use by default
  32. Chef: Cannot find a resource for powershell on windows version 6.1.7600 (solved)
  33. My Top 9 Favorite Podcasts (Updated March 2013)
  34. Building Dual-Screen Wallpapers for Windows 7 with PowerShell
  35. Setting up a Samsung Wireless Laser Printer with a Phone or Tablet (i.e. Without a Computer)
  36. Automatically Connect to the Replica Set Primary with Mongo Shell
  37. Chef on Windows Error: tar: Cannot fork: Function not implemented (Solved)
  38. Goodbye, Hello
  39. The Real Reason They’re Taking Away Your Unlimited Data
  40. SAP Connector: “ERROR service ‘?’ unknown” (SOLVED)
  41. How Much Of that Sweet, Sweet Data Does Pandora Use on Your Phone?
  42. Does iOS Report Usage in Mebibytes or Megabytes?
  43. How I Discovered Amazon’s Impressive Gift Wrap Service Via a Generous Friend
  44. Thing1’s Fun Run
  45. Dear Children: You Are Awesome
  46. Usability Testing is Easy. And Cheap. And Painful (But Essential!)
  47. Fun Times at Niagara Falls With the Kiddos
  48. How to Convert Battery-Powered LED Christmas Lights to USB
  49. Building a Digital Clock without Flash or Images
  50. SQL Server 2012: “Saving changes is not permitted…”
  51. Building an Analog Clock without Flash or Images
  52. Christmas Lights 2012: “Let’s Make Them Nice This Time”
  53. Snippet: Eating The Backspace Key on Data Entry Screens (Or, How I Became A Secret Hero)
  54. What is going on with my iOS clipboard in Safari?!
  55. Handling Drag Events in iOS with Javascript
  56. SignalR: First Impressions (It’s Awesome)
  57. How Buying or Selling a House in a Single Day Could Work
  58. Death By a Thousand Paper Cuts: The Way We Buy and Sell Houses Is Begging for Disruption
  59. Introducing Our Kids to Video Games
  60. Vote
  61. Amazon Prime: The Good, the Bad and the (Possibly) Ugly
  62. How Dropbox with Two-Factor Authentication Neatly Handles Application Specific Passwords
  63. Halloween Abroad
  64. Catching Unique Key Constraint Violations with Entity Framework and SQL Server
  65. Happy First Birthday, Thing 3
  66. Running Visual Studio (or Any Program) As An Administrator Without Prompting for Elevation
  67. Patching jQuery Validation for the iOS Date Picker
  68. Let the Browser Handle the Datepicker (if it can)
  69. Building Cabers for your Summer Olympics
  70. Happy Mother’s Day
  71. How To Restore a Database With Active Connections
  72. I Vote To Close This Meeting
  73. Case Sensitivity in ASP.NET
  74. LEDs Have Arrived!
  75. A Candy Land Simulator: The Game Engine, Implemented
  76. Outlook Tip: Automatically Archive Annoying Meeting Invitation Responses
  77. A Candy Land Simulator: The Game Engine
  78. A Candy Land Simulator: Overview and Data Representations
  79. Please Ignore Me While I Gush Over My New Laptop
  80. Installing/Upgrading Memory in a Dell Latitude 6520 (aka MOAR GBs!)
  81. Jim, The Pony Taxi, Who Sounds A Lot Like an Engineer
  82. How To Give Better Technical Presentations
  83. Profanity in Technical Presentations and Business
  84. Oh no! I have an interview today and did absolutely nothing to prepare!
  85. What I Miss From My Android as a New iPhone User
  86. How the Google Search “Do a barrel roll” Works
  87. Moving A Hard Drive with Windows 7 to a New Machine
  88. iPhone, from a Former Android Enthusiast
  89. Campaigning Like a Boss
  90. Birth Story: Thing 3
  91. The Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio
  92. Reseeding *All* Identity Values in a Database
  93. Statistics are Misleading At Best, Filthy Liars at Second Best
  94. A Ridiculous Jury Duty Questionnaire
  95. How to Cook Bacon on a George Foreman Grill
  96. Fixing My Hipster Dryer
  97. Using Bitly’s “+” Links to Peek at Spam
  98. Reduce Noise from Responses To Your Outlook Meeting Requests
  99. Speed Matters: How to Talk About It
  100. Weather in the Midwest vs. A Typical Shower Faucet
  101. Renaming a SQL Server Database
  102. How Do I Print [this web page]!?
  103. Feature Complete vs. Complete Features
  104. Truncating the log of a previously replicated database
  105. How Not to Cross the Border, Or “Please Proceed to Immigration”
  106. The Curious Behavior of HTML Image Inputs, Or Why “&x=0&y=0” Is Showing Up Uninvited
  107. Dear NASA, I Officially Request One Space Shuttle
  108. Project Noodle: Terminated
  109. Code Isn’t Always the Best Tool
  110. How Much Does an Apple Addiction Cost?
  111. The Curious Tale of Ms. Talks-Too-Loud
  112. Does Tapping the Can Prevent A Massive Fizzy Explosion?
  113. 10 Reasons Why We Should Give Google More Credit
  114. The Kids’ Castle
  115. Hey Zoo Membership Dude: A Letter from Tammy the Tamarin
  116. Windows: Improving the Command Window, if Only Slightly
  117. How Not To Host an Open House
  118. Hyper-V: What are these *.avhd files for? Snapshots? But I have no snapshots!
  119. “Host is not allowed to connect to this mysql server” (Solved)
  120. Recovering from SQL Server Error: “Syntax Error in TextHeader”
  121. Generating Event Handler Skeletons in .NET
  122. I Guess YouTuber’s *Do* Advertise
  123. The End Of Super Bowl-Style Advertising
  124. A Case For Rolling It (All) Yourself
  125. An Extreme(ish) Company Planning Conference
  126. Is Microsoft Crowdsourcing Search?
  127. A Special Message From Thing1 and Thing2
  128. Trouble Creating Windows Services With “sc.exe create”
  129. My Favorite Book Ever
  130. Idea: Blackmail Yourself to Health
  131. User Interfaces And The Fools Who Love Them
  132. Google’s Subtly Personalized Search Results
  133. How To Cook Occasionally Alongside a Wife Who Cooks Often
  134. Thing2 Explodes, Laundry Ensues
  135. Automating Minitab with C#
  136. Blurry Shapes: Unleashing the Bokeh
  137. Windows 7 Tip: Check Box-Based File Selection
  138. Presenting: The Parental Anger Scale
  139. That’ll be $44+”Tax” (BTW, “tax” is 61%)
  140. Life Lessons About Glitter (ZOMG IT’S EVERYWHERE)
  141. Last Minute Gifts: Guide 2010
  142. Customer Service: How AirTran Bought Me For $0.50
  143. “Private Practice” is a Really Great Show
  144. Arduino Day 17: Light Driven Beeps
  145. Arduino Day 14: Simple Conductivity Sensor
  146. Arduino Day 13: Weather Bug
  147. Arduino Day 12: Seeking Inspiration
  148. Arduino Day 11: Extreme Feedback for Hudson Builds (Includes Chuck Norris Cameo)
  149. Arduino Day 10: PC Input
  150. Arduino Day 9: Simon(ish) Game
  151. Export an iTunes Playlist to Android
  152. Adventures in Unsubscribing (Spoiler: It Ends in “Grrrrr”)
  153. Arduino Day 8: “Reaction” Game
  154. Arduino Day 7: Buttons and Buzzers
  155. Arduino Day 6: Analog Inputs
  156. Arduino Day 5: Fun With Charlieplexing
  157. Arduino Day 4: Fun With Sound
  158. Arduino Day 3: Psychedelic Fun With a Tri-Color LED
  159. Arduino Day 2: Digital Inputs (More Fun With LEDs)
  160. Vote
  161. Arduino Day 1: Unpacking and Fun with LEDs
  162. Nanowrimo: Arduino Style
  163. List<T>: .Clear() vs. new; Variable Passing in C# </T>
  164. Ten Commandments of Trick or Treat
  165. Opt Out Means Opt Out
  166. Target Is Crazy, And Random Pictures
  167. Project Noodle: Initial Database Design
  168. Some Thoughts on Antivirus and Why I Now Use It
  169. Herein Lies A Graphic Description of Toilet Punishment
  170. The Best Computer Upgrade Ever: Solid State Disk
  171. The Konami Code In JS
  172. Building a Prettier Search Box
  173. First Look at NuPack: A VS-Integrated Package Management Tool
  174. Lies, Damned Lies, And Internet Speed Charts
  175. Google’s Search Preview Is Impressive
  176. Road Journal 10/12/2010 — 10/15/2010
  177. Restyling A Website With User Styles in Chrome
  178. A Quick Look at Tax Brackets (Dull, I know, but Bear With Me!)
  179. Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? (Blue Pill or Red Pill?)
  180. My New Project Update: Name and Sitemap
  181. Infinite Scroll Is The Best Thing Since XmlHttpRequest
  182. Why Computers Suck, Part 1
  183. Thing 1 is Three, OMG (Hey! That Rhymes!)
  184. You Need to Stop Setting Email Priority
  185. How to lose an hour: TED.com
  186. The Pumpkin Patch
  187. Why I love Having a Decent Camera Phone
  188. Anatomy of a Typical Sensationalist News Story
  189. In Defense of StackExchange / Trust the Experts / Roy Osherove is Wrong
  190. Things Android Could Do Better
  191. Things I Love About Android
  192. How to Take Screenshots from an Android Phone
  193. Road Journal 9/22/2010 - 9/24/2010: Day 3
  194. Road Journal 9/22/2010 - 9/24/2010: Day 2
  195. Road Journal 9/22/2010 - 9/24/2010: Day 1
  196. In Defense of Google, or Why Search Isn’t About Bells and Whistles
  197. Some Thoughts on the Mosque Near Ground Zero
  198. My New Project: Initial Mockups
  199. My New Project
  200. About Those Magic Eye Things
  201. How to Make Coffee-Snob Worthy Coffee
  202. Healthcare Musings Part 4 (From a Friggin Airplane)
  203. The Power of Defaults, and: SourceSafe Really is That Bad
  204. Easter Eggs in Red-Gate’s SQL Compare
  205. Watch out for that Distribution Database
  206. Autohotkey: Wrapping the selection with a tag
  207. Building URLs for “SRC” Attributes in ASP.NET MVC
  208. +/-20 Years of Computing
  209. Creating/Submitting a Patch to a Subversion Repo
  210. Active Directory Look-Up
  211. HTML/JS: Progressive Enhancement
  212. Generating Super Shiny, Hopefully Secure Tokens
  213. Class Inheritance Throw Back
  214. Algorithms Throw Back
  215. Word Document Automation with .NET 4: New Doc From Template
  216. Leave SQL Server’s Cost Threshold for Parallelism Alone
  217. Ruminations: Multiple Births; Congratulations
  218. Moving List Items Between Lists
  219. Word Document Automation with .NET 4: Attach Styles From a Template
  220. How the Richter Scale Works
  221. Why Twitter is Awesome
  222. Fun with Google’s Public Data
  223. Word Document Automation with .NET 4: Update All Fields
  224. Word Document Automation with .NET 4
  225. Bad Haircuts
  226. Food Allergies != Fun
  227. To Fail Or Not To Fail; Plus Bonus Ruminations
  228. Two Cents on Healthcare, Part 3
  229. Two Cents on Healthcare, Pre-Part 3
  230. Two Cents on Healthcare, Part 2
  231. Ruminations in Pictures (Briefly)
  232. Two Cents on Healthcare
  233. Building a Windows Sidebar Gadget
  234. Enabling Dynamic HTTP Compression in IIS7 on Windows Server 2008
  235. First Look at Windows 7
  236. We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo…how about—what are you looking at?!
  237. Apache Reverse Proxy Implemented
  238. Charlotte’s Birth Story, and Why We Chose Homebirth (Written by Sarah)
  239. When it Comes to Internet Connectivity, Business Users Get Screwed
  240. Adding Blow-In Insulation
  241. Want Some Poop With That?
  242. Structuring Our Developer Tools with a Reverse Proxy
  243. Ruminations in Pictures
  244. Baby Scale Hack
  245. Microsoft’s Response to Google’s Chrome OS
  246. We Call Her Bugsy
  247. Bringing some Gmail-Archive Love to Outlook
  248. SD Cards are Remarkably Resilient
  249. Well, we live in Ohio.
  250. Announcing Charlotte Mae Haren
  251. Are you Crashing Responsibly?
  252. Transformers 2, Rise of some Giant Robots
  253. Amoeba Fever Problem
  254. Diagnosis II: Why Can’t LiveWriter Post from Work?
  255. Highlight all matching words
  256. Publishing Code to Blogger
  257. Troubleshooting an Elusive Site Slow Down
  258. Thanks for Sharing…
  259. C# and VB.NET Compared
  260. Working with the Yield keyword in C#
  261. Someone just got fired
  262. How many babies in our house have…
  263. The Foreclosure Crisis
  264. Searching in Outlook
  265. Journalism At Its Best
  266. Look Out World!
  267. Surf Quietly and Securely at Work
  268. Firefox 3.0 (RC1)
  269. Pizza Structures
  270. Airplane Ruminations
  271. Is Your Refrigerator Running?
  272. Pick a Number, Any Number
  273. Birth Story from Sarah
  274. She’s coming!
  275. Maya’s on Her Way
  276. Peanut, GET OUT!
  277. Still Here, Still Pregnant
  278. Apple and the iPhone
  279. New Bit: Random Letters
  280. Flying Sucks
  281. Programmers That…Program?
  282. Peanut’s 20-Week Ultrasound
  283. More Baby Stuff…
  284. Funny Shirts, Baby Stuff
  285. Welcome Home
  286. Site News
  287. Vote Like Your Democracy Depends on it!
  288. Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet
  289. Moving North
  290. Haik-uesday
  291. My Job Rocks
  292. The average blah has a bajillion times more bacteria than the average toilet seat
  293. Because it’s what Jesus Would Freaking Do
  294. Just Married: Bill and Jenn
  295. Floppy Disks
  296. Sailing the Great Lakes
  297. The Pups
  298. Sarah’s Teaching Job
  299. Working like it’s my Job
  300. Microsoft Office 2007 (Beta 2, Technical Refresh)
  301. Podcasts
  302. That Actually Happens?!
  303. Game 7: Canes vs. Oilers
  304. Bush Sees Things Differently
  305. Prime Numbers
  306. Patriot Games
  307. Cell Phones at the Movies
  308. For the “nerds” out there
  309. Radio Shack
  310. Careful there…
  311. I can’t make this stuff up
  312. I can’t believe it’s not truncating!
  313. Thoughts About Pudding
  314. Things my dog has eaten today
  315. Haiku
  316. Oh, you work with computers?
  317. Healthy(er) pick me up!
  318. Updates All Around
  319. Pirate Updates
  320. Check Out This Hot Dog
  321. How is your WiFi?
  322. Intelligent Cat Door
  323. Poseidon Swimming System
  324. Auto-Tint Glass
  325. Gas prices
  326. Buying an iPod: Fight the Urge to Splurge
  327. iPod Nano
  328. Impatience at its best
  329. House Hunting Updates (II)
  330. House Hunting Updates
  331. Happy!
  332. Canada
  333. Cards in Newark
  334. Mary Lyle-Storie’s Wedding
  335. TiVo to the Rescue, Slickdeals.net
  336. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (0/5 stars)
  337. Batman (3.5/5 stars)
  338. Garden State (4/5 stars)
  339. Updates: Exams (3 of 5), Sofa Express, Sarah’s Car
  340. More updates - Lost, Graduation
  341. Hockey!
  342. Updates from the crypt
  343. updates on the way…
  344. Racin’ for the Cure
  345. music freeloading
  346. hockey
  347. Poker [updated]
  348. Mike and Ike
  349. :(
  350. Mother of God this hurts
  351. Poker updates
  352. Perl - huh?
  353. Hockey Hockey Hockey
  354. Items on the horizon
  355. Hockey Madness!
  356. random updates
  357. Hockey
  358. two-minute minor
  359. Finals!
  360. Saw (4/5 bananas)
  361. Work…yaaaay!
  362. some people are just crazy
  363. Googol err Google
  364. iPod Shuffles Rock (my world)!
  365. Stealing vs. Stealing…
  366. Hockey Madness
  367. Things that are green
  368. workin’ in a coal mine…er…electrical supply company