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Bruce Axtens

May 5

[Twitch.tv] Half an hour of Exercism

#twitch #programming

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How many unfinished projects do you have?

At the programming level or the life level? It's been said th...

May 2

April 29th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

This week I learned how to do a Twitch broadcast. I followed ...

Apr 30

How to setup scheduled cron jobs in Node.js

No, however there's nothing to say that that can't be done. I...

Mar 18

17 Javascript optimization tips to know in 2021 🚀

Thanks for pointing that out, @estruyf . The following deno s...

Feb 4

How to setup scheduled cron jobs in Node.js

Great to see cron getting another outing. Have used that in a...

Feb 4

Learning JavaScript is HARD!

I started learning JavaScript in 2011. I came to if after a d...

Jan 27

Sometimes the Typescript CLI seems strangely opaque

To answer my own question, based on the response on StackOver...

Nov 18 '20

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Bruce Axtens

Mar 4

Punctuation in programming languages

#javascript #programming #debugging #sleeplessness

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Bruce Axtens

Feb 4

How to generate 3D chart with doughnut hole in Charts Service using Google Apps Script?

#help #javascript #googleappsscript #googlesheets

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Bruce Axtens

Feb 4

How do I get see the zero value in a Google Sheets Chart?

#help #googlesheets #googleappsscript #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jan 27

COBOL gets a hip replacement

#cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 7 '20

Generating ES3 from Typescript?

#typescript #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Nov 16 '20

Sometimes the Typescript CLI seems strangely opaque

#help #typescript

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Bruce Axtens

Nov 9 '20

How to get Google Apps Script to tell Google Docs to bold, italic, strikethrough and underline from a JSON representation?

#googleappsscript #javascript #googledocs

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Bruce Axtens

Oct 2 '20

Disabling and re-enabling a button in Google Apps Script

#javascript #googleappsscript #typescript

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Bruce Axtens

Oct 2 '20

Reinstalling Xubuntu after a failed disk copy

#linux #grub

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Bruce Axtens

Sep 24 '20

Can IIS customTags access items other than the attribute of the tag?

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 26 '20

Another older language: BLISS

#bliss #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 25 '20

Another older language: RPG - Report Program Generator

#legacy #rpg #kotlin #java

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 19 '20

Reverse Proxying Facebook

#urlrewriting #javascript #iis

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 19 '20

Using UrlRewrite to inject scripts into web pages

#todayilearned #javascript #urlrewrite

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 13 '20

How to add Tracing to Windows Server 2012 R2 under Azure

#azure #iis #tracing

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 12 '20

How do I embed javascript into an IIS UrlRewrite rule?

#iis #urlrewriting #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 11 '20

Need help with IIS UrlRewriting (again)

#iis #urlrewrite

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 6 '20

They're still talking COBOL

#cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 5 '20

IIS UrlRewrite: How to rewrite from just a domain to domain and path

#urlrewrite #iis

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 30 '20

toTimeString(), a JavaScript function to make sense of millisecond values

#javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 26 '20

A simple metrics (invocation count, run-time) tool in JavaScript/TypeScript/GoogleAppsScript

#typescript #javascript #googleappsscript

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 24 '20

A Me() function for JavaScript and Google Apps Script

#googleappsscript #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 17 '20

Now need help setting up a reverse proxy in IIS

#iis #reverseproxy

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 16 '20

Need help with NGINX

#nginx #networking

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 15 '20

In a non-UI application, how do I handle “The calling thread cannot access this object because a different thread owns it”

#csharp #clearscript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 26 '20

Sometimes JavaScript arrays don't compare

#todayilearned #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 25 '20

Can a paragraph inserted automatically after the insertion of a table be addressed programmatically?

#javascript #googleappsscript #googledocs

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 17 '20

How to pre-dimension a 2D array in JavaScript

#todayilearned #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 15 '20

Another random string generator

#deno #typescript #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 14 '20

Words that end with -ism (another Quora question)

#deno #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 14 '20

However, the Deno community chat is on discord

#todayilearned #discord #deno #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 13 '20

There's a Spectrum chat for Deno

#deno #spectrumchat

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 11 '20

Learning Deno and liking what I see

#todayilearned #deno

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 10 '20

Doodling in C# at Quora

#csharp

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 3 '20

JavaScript polymorphism in Google Apps Script

#todayilearned #javascript #googleappsscript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 1 '20

Writing a COM DLL in C# and interfacing with JavaScript

#todayilearned #legacy #csharp #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

May 19 '20

Try It Online

#todayilearned #scripting #languages

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Bruce Axtens

May 18 '20

https://HOPL.info -- certificate installed!

#hopl #programminglanguages

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 25 '20

With Google Apps Script going to V8, whither ts2gas?

#help #googleappsscript #javascript #googlesheets

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 23 '20

For those who learn COBOL

#legacy #cobol

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 23 '20

COBOL - not dead; not dying; not even idle (#4)

#legacy #cobol

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 17 '20

COBOL - not dead; not dying; not even idle (#3)

#cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 16 '20

COBOL's 60th birthday

#cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 16 '20

COBOL - not dead; not dying; not even idle (#2)

#language #cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 15 '20

WordPress REST API, meta and <META>

#help #wordpress #html

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 14 '20

Linq Love

#csharp

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Bruce Axtens

Feb 26 '20

HOPL bugs

#hopl

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Bruce Axtens

Feb 6 '20

HOPL again

#help #hopl

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Bruce Axtens

Feb 5 '20

HOPL is coming out of hibernation

#languagelearning #hopl #languagehistory

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Bruce Axtens

Jan 21 '20

How do I write a technical reference?

#help

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Bruce Axtens

Jan 8 '20

tbas, a tiny cross-platform basic interpreter

#basic #legacy #learning

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 29 '19

Read-once variable - R1V, ROV, ... - in C#

#help #csharp

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 19 '19

Need help setting up Java 13 with JavaFX

#help #java #b4x #b4j

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 13 '19

Who am I? Me, the name of the currently executing method in C# (Part 2)

#todayilearned #csharp

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 12 '19

Who am I? Me, the name of the currently executing method in C#

#csharp #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 6 '19

Helpful online tools

#todayilearned #todayisearched

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Bruce Axtens

Nov 30 '19

I struggle with pacing, do you?

#contentcreation #writing

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Bruce Axtens

Nov 30 '19

XSharp, Bandol 2.10 release

#xbase #clipper #foxpro #dotnet

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Nov 29 '19

8th language release v19.08

#eighth #forth #concatenative #crossplatform

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