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How to Fix NativeScript Issue with iOS14 and XCode 12
With the release of iOS14 and XCode 12, NativeScript apps started crashing . Unfortunately, the timing conflicted with the release of NativeScript 7 which caused lots of confusion. I ran into this issue with a...
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Ways to Preview Short Links
A short link is a URL with fewer characters that redirects to a longer destination URL. There are several reasons for wanting to shorten a link. They take less time to type, are easier to remember, easier to share,...
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How to Setup WordPress Two Factor Authentication
If you have a WordPress site, I highly recommend requiring two-factor authentication. WordPress sites are often hacked due to poor passwords. There are many solutions for adding two-factor auth but I believe this is...
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IP Geolocation using Cloudflare
Cloudflare offers a neat feature for free to capture the country code of visitors hitting your web server. This can be useful for many different applications. For example, if you would like to offer discounts to...
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Canceling Hulu
Recently I signed up for Hulu to watch the last season of Lost. Spoiler alert the last season is quite disappointing. After searching for something else to watch on Hulu and not being able to find anything...
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Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder
I’ve been on a mission to keep the squirrels away from my bird feeder. They are creative creatures and are neat to watch but they cause a mess and eat all the birdseed. I started buying more expensive birdseed to...
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Retrofit LED Can Lights
Did you know that if you currently have recessed lights, you can easily replace them with LED lights in a few minutes? You remove the old housing for the can light and screw in the new led light . It can be done in a...
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DIY Outdoor Wyze Camera
Wyze recently released its outdoor camera that everyone has been anticipating. They look great and are priced affordably for an outdoor battery-powered camera. I went ahead and preordered 1 for $64.78 shipping in...
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Password Management Tips
Many people I know use the same simple password across multiple sites. All it takes is one of the sites to be hacked and all their accounts are now compromised. I recommend going to Have I Been Pwned to check and see...
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Lazy Git Shortcut
If you use git and are tired of typing git add . then git commit -a -m “your git message” then git push , add an alias function to your bash_profile to do it all in one quick command. The example below works on macOS...
