Austen - Software Engineer

Building Your Software Product – What to Expect

Austen — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:35:19 +0000

An overview of the processes, timelines, and expectations involved with creating and launching a successful software product. Creating a software product can be intimidating due to the multitude of invisible components that must be organized to bring your idea to life. It might help to understand that the process of software product construction shares many…

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User-Intuitive Component Navigation With UseBackButton in Blazor Hybrid Apps

Austen — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:29:45 +0000

Hey Blazor enthusiasts! Today, we’ll explore how the UseBackButton.razor component can enhance component navigation in your Blazor hybrid apps. We’ll delve into its inner workings, and you’ll learn how to create seamless navigation experiences. https://github.com/IntelliTect-Samples/UseBackButton-Blazor Unraveling UseBackButton In the world of Blazor hybrid apps, managing navigation within an activity can be a puzzle. That’s where…

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What you should know before getting Started with Strapi

Austen — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:49:44 +0000

An Introduction to Strapi Strapi is the headless content management system (CMS) that empowers you to store, manage, and edit your website’s content while generating a sleek API for easy access. While Strapi may seem like a breeze to get started with, there are a few crucial points to grasp before diving in headfirst. Setting…

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Hidden Implementation Techniques for MAUI iOS Azure DevOps Build Pipelines

Austen — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:17:49 +0000

Getting Started with MAUI The Microsoft documentation for building and deploying a MAUI app is quite comprehensive, but the lack of certain implementation details can hinder the speed of your template development. This post covers two useful implementation techniques, for constructing an iOS build pipeline for Azure DevOps for your MAUI project, which are not…

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How to Use Variable Fonts from Google

Austen — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:01:45 +0000

Variable font files are supposed to make design easier! So why is it confusing to get one in the first place? You’ve heard about the awesome variable font feature that all modern browsers support and want to implement a site with it, but you don’t know where to get a variable font. No problem! This…

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An Immediate Forecast of AI Security and Related Threats

Austen — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:28:31 +0000

The Double-Edged Sword of AI Security: Mitigating Prominent Threats for Business Stakeholders Like many software developers, I use AI language tools all day for building software with AI security in mind. These revolutionary tools sometimes respond to my requests with deceptively innocuous responses. For example, the responses sometimes explain that the tool cannot create a…

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Nuxt 3 API Auth Technique

Austen — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 18:18:13 +0000

Authenticating Requests to Nuxt 3 Endpoints When converting a Nuxt 2 app with an Express.js API to Nuxt 3, I quickly encountered some new challenges. It was tricky to convert the API to the Nitro File-Based Endpoint API of the Nuxt 3 framework, and I found little content about how to implement auth with the…

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IntelliTect Today: Reimagining the Looff Carrousel

Austen — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:23:51 +0000

Contributing to the Community through our Core Values The Looff Carrousel has always been a remarkable memory for me of growing up in Spokane, Washington. After visiting the carrousel with my little cousins this past summer and seeing their excitement over the ring toss, I was reminded of the rides I took as a kid…

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Object Detection with TensorFlow Lite and Xamarin.Forms

Austen — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:36:06 +0000

Creating a Garden Defense System Using Tflite My Mom has a garden and chickens. Around the fenced-in garden is a parameter of bark and shrubs. The chickens love foraging in the bark and can easily kick and scratch several cubic feet of it out into the field within minutes. When they free-ranged, my Mom always kept…

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How to Fix the NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID Error

Austen — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:01:08 +0000

Don’t Let Replacing the Expired DST Root CA x3 Bring You Down If you are using an older Mac OS X version to browse the web, it’s likely that you recently started seeing "NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID", "Your connection is not private", "Clock expired privacy issue", "Safari can’t verify the identity of the website", or a similar error…

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Creating a Notion Progress Bar with Variable Formulas

Austen — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:28:08 +0000

Don’t Copy Formulas: Make Them Yourself With this Power-user Technique! Update: As of August 2022, progress bars are built in; however this post is more about formula design than progress bars, so read on! The beauty of Notion.so is that it offers so much flexibility in how you can manage and view your data. Much…

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Video: Real-Time IoT with .NET and Raspberry Pi

Austen — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:46:09 +0000

Learn how to configure an IoT stack all within .NET with Azure Web App Service, SignalR, Raspberry Pi, and ASP.NET! In this Meetup talk, Austen and Grant walk you through everything you need to build a real-time IoT device solution on the Azure Web App Service. With the accompanying GitHub repo, you can follow along…

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Cloning to an Azure Active Directory Account

Austen — Tue, 25 May 2021 16:13:21 +0000

Reduce Friction: Migrate to Azure Active Directory (AAD) and Keep Your Previous Accounts’ Data and Profiles I recently joined a small office of Windows 10 computers to Azure Active Directory (AAD join) to improve security and workflow for the company by following Microsoft’s recommended best practices. I needed to do this without taking the extra…

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VPNs, Cliff Bars, and a Delivery Drone

Austen — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:19:23 +0000

How I Constructed a long range Delivery Drone A few years ago, I saw an article about Zipline, a medical supply distribution company. They use an ingeniously designed plane system to deliver blood and other vital medical supplies to remote hospitals in Uganda. I thought that was the coolest use of RC aircraft drone I…

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6 Steps to Automate Publishing a VSIX Extension with DevOps

Austen — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 01:03:55 +0000

Azure Pipeline Use Azure DevOps Extension Tasks to Add a Visual Studio Extension Publishing Task to Your pipeline. Microsoft recently released the Azure DevOps Extension Tasks tool for Azure DevOps that makes it easy to add a Visual Studio Extension publishing task to a pipeline, but I wasn’t able to find any layman’s documentation on…

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