Visual Studio Code Live Share - Safe and Reproducible!

Hi everyone, time for another blog post. This one’s about an idea I had while taking part in “mob-programming” with a friend. I did not know what mob-programming was, but it was the first time I got to use the Live Share feature in Visual Studio Code. It was a pretty smooth experience! It was very interesting being able to share a code editor with no work on my part. I was able to see the host’s project directory structure, terminal (read-only access), and the code as it was being edited, kind of like a Google Doc.
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GUI programming and my recent freelancing experience.

Hi everyone, today I come to you with the story of a freelancing experience I had, and what I got out of it. The job The job is that a business makes appointments through an online service called TimeTap and needs to take client information from this service and print it out onto labels that have a QR code that can be scanned. So I get to work and make…
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My new library, ninjarmmpy!

Hi everyone, it’s been a very long time since my last post. I’ve been trying to write more but the pandemic makes it so easy to be lazy. HOWEVER, I have not been inactive this whole time. Let me show you what I’ve been up to. ninjarmmpy I wrote and published my first library, ninjarmmpy, to PyPI! ninjarmmpy was born out of a curiousity I had at work. I work as a Centralized Services Engineer for an MSP.
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WSL 2 is here, let’s set it up!

I’ve been looking forward to WSL 2 for a while now. If you don’t know what WSL is, it stands for Windows Subsystem for Linux. It allows you to run a Linux environment on Windows, and you can read more here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about I remember trying to setup my own development environment back in college. I needed gcc and make, but those weren’t easy to come by on Windows if you were just starting out and nobody taught you about the toolchain.
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Fedora 32 released this week! How do I get Docker working again?

Hey everyone, Fedora 32 was released earlier this week on the 28th. I like to have the latest software running on my computer so I upgraded as soon as I could, but I noticed something when I ran my next dnf check-update. The Docker repositories were disabled, so I wouldn’t get any updates! The Docker devs didn’t have a repo ready for Fedora 32. Normally waiting for an update isn’t a big deal but Fedora made a few changes recently and I wanted to write down how I came over them.
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