The amount of enjoyment I get from using my new mouse is unreal. Had been using my Logitech G502 ever since it came out in 2014. Last month I decided it was time for an upgrade.
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I recently bought the Quest 2 on sale and wanted to play Beat Saber with custom songs. The Quest 2 is a standalone VR headset, so there are a few extra steps to take. Here's what I did to mod the game.
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Wanted to replace the default right-click context menu options in a VS Code Webview with custom ones. Also wanted to hide a command from being shown in the command palette. Used a freshly-finalized VS Code API to solve my problem.
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Trying to write a simple query for a data access layer in Java Spring involving PostgreSQL's jsonb data format. Finding out that Java Persistence Query Language doesn't support the jsonb arrow operator (and other database-specific operators). What I had to do instead.
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My Windows 10 Start Menu wouldn't stay open after I clicked on it. It'd open briefly and immediately disappear. I was still able to search for applications if I typed quickly, but couldn't use the UI to shut down my PC. In my case, it turned out to be because of Live Tiles! Here's how I fixed it.
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Did you know that uniqueidentifiers in MSSQL have their own special sort order? An old coworker reminded me of the time we found this out.
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Cypress seems pretty useful for e2e and integration testing. I also found that cy.server() didn't work quite the way I expected.
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Added some React Hooks to a component and caused some unit test failures.
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Writing up some quick integration tests for a queue consumer service and was briefly baffled when the test was failing. A simple and obvious error.
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Setting up a new user role for a brand new .NET Core service to grant it database permissions to execute some stored procedures. When I deployed, I saw an error in the logs. I had forgotten something.
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A search request on the frontend was failing due to an execution timeout error from the database. A stored procedure had to be rewritten to address this.
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I had a simple visual bug. But due to the changing expectations surrounding what interacted with it, I had to evaluate several options for fixing it.
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I want to know how many records are associated with more than one of another record type across four 3NF normalized tables?
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Had a fun error when I tried to build a project after changing a tiny line that should not have caused any issues. npm ERR! code ETARGET.
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Noticed when using Angular's reactive forms with my checkboxes that had labels and icons that were dependent on the form value that there was a discrepancy between how IE/Edge treated them versus Chrome/Firefox.
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Here's how you can conditionally set a style value depending on a property, and how to conditionally set a style on a host element.
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Needed to transform some flat rows from a database into nested objects in a C# backend, so I made use of LINQ. LINQ is short for Language-Integrated Query, a neat C# tech.
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A lesson in having patience to understand what is going on during CSS troubleshooting. It's not you, CSS, it's me.
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Troubleshooting a bug on a datepicker component that had to do with daylight savings. Another reminder to check network requests.
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Forgetting to check my helper functions left me debugging a problem longer than it should have taken. Here, I show an example of an incident in the form of a hypothetical application.
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