Grant Winney

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I write when I've got something to share - a personal project, a solution to a difficult problem, or just an idea. We learn by doing and sharing. We've all got something to contribute.

Articles of Grant Winney

Jun 14, 2019

Minification vs Obfuscation

Mozilla announced they'll no longer accept extensions with obfuscated code. It's good news for users, maybe not so much for developers. Obfuscated code is (intentionally) nearly impossible to understand, and could easily be malicious. Let's unpack and break down a few concepts....

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Jun 05, 2019

CodeFactor, Uploading Images via REST, and the Ghost Admin API v2.0

I finally wrapped up (for now) a little side project of mine, a C# wrapper around v2.0 of the Ghost RESTful API. I call it GhostSharp, and it's available on GitHub and NuGet. It covers the entire Content API as well as the 4 stable endpoints of the Admin API....

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May 21, 2019

Keeping your GitHub code secure

GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket just released a joint statement on a widespread ransomware attack that resulted in compromised accounts. That got me thinking, what can a person do to protect his or her code on GitHub? As it turns out, a lot......

May 16, 2019

How to modify a config file in Erlang

I was tasked this week with writing an escript to modify an Erlang config file. All I needed was to read it in, make a couple updates, and write it back out. Should be easy, right? Please make it easy Erlang. No? Of course not... this is Erlang after all....

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May 04, 2019

Running Windows XP in VirtualBox

Just got an MSDN account, which always comes with some old treasures (hey, beauty's in the eye of the beholder). Take a trip back with me, to the days of Windows XP, the beginning of the .NET Framework, and even further... ;)...

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Apr 30, 2019

Time flies... even if you waste it

Gamification, superficial recognition, mindless ease-of-use. There are so many reasons we're attracted to social media. It's disgusting how easy it is to lose hours, days, of time with nothing to show for it afterwards. But what can I do? What can we do?...

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Apr 27, 2019

My first aquarium - Month 7

When I wrote about setting up our aquarium last year, I intended to post regular updates. Then everything but one fish and the snail died. Not cool. Fast-forward 6 months later, and I've decided to make one important change to the tank, and introduce a new gang to the sole survivor!...

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Apr 26, 2019

Showing Results is Hard

Writing software is a weird cerebral exercise, where you can burn tons of energy working on a problem, and exhaust yourself to the point of needing a good night's sleep, yet have very little (if anything!) to show for it. What do you tell people you do all day? What do you do to prove your value?...