Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
For a migration from Disqus over to GitHub Discussions, I created a script that processes all comments and replies. One thing I noticed is that I quickly reached the rate limit with my personal access token, which prevents me from using GitHub for a while. I decided to use a GitHub App to overcome the issue of locking out my account.
Read moreOver the weekend, I received a couple of emails I was running out of GitHub Codespaces storage. My limit is 20GB, but more interesting is that I rarely use codespaces. Show image GitHub Codespaces storage usage The last time I used Codespaces was about a year ago, but I couldn’t remember which repository it was.
Read moreLast week, all of a sudden, my Azure subscription got suspended. As the subscription runs on credits and is optimized to be way below the limit, I was surprised to see that I suddenly reached the spending limit. Usually, the monthly cost for the subscription is around 50-60 EUR. This month, it suddenly got above 150 EUR, but why?
Read moreLet us go back to the end of 2020. My wife and I were chatting in the kitchen about buying a new car. One of the criteria of my wife the vehicle should have was to have seven seats as it would be easier to bring kids to tennis. I wanted to go for a fully electric car.
Read moreIn Visual Studio Code extension webviews you probably need to get familiar with post-messaging communication. This post-messaging communication is used when you want to start a process, request information, etc. For this communication flow to work, the extension and webview can send and listen to incoming messages. Although this is not a complicated flow to understand, it quickly feels like a disconnected communication flow, as you cannot simply wait for a response.
Read moreA couple of months ago, I wrote about how you could create an authentication provider for Visual Studio Code. In this article, we will take it further and make it reusable by other extensions. The reason for creating a reusable authentication provider could differ per solution. Maybe you want to make one for other extensions to leverage, or your company wants to release multiple extensions that can all use the same type of authentication.
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