Setting up Golang environment
For Day 17 I’m going to setup a Golang environment on my Windows 10 PC.
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2022
Installing PSReadLine for Predictive Intellisense
You can read all about PSReadLine here: About PSReadLine, the feature I want most is the predictive intellisense, you set your PowerShell command history as ...
Adding functions for Windows to PowerShell Profile
For Day 15 of 100 Days of code, I wanted to build out my PowerShell Profile a little bit more, and focus on Windows Administration PowerShell Functions
Upgrade function to include alias and second parameter
For day 14 of 100 Days of Code I’m going to update my new-blogpost function again, by adding an alias and a second parameter.
Registering a .eth Domain Name
For day 13 of 100 Days of Code, I’m going to buy a .eth Top Level Domain (TLD), Hawzy.eth. I’m going to walk through doing the needful, from setting up a me...
Install Oh My Posh Theme Engine
Today for Day 12 of 100 Days of Code I’m going to install the Oh My Posh Prompt theme engine, Nerd Fonts and Terminal Icons into my powershell profile.
Creating a PowerShell Profile Repository
For day 11 of 100 Days of Code, I’m going to create a new repo to host my PowerShell Profile https://github.com/Hawzy/powershell-profile. The profile gets a...
Updating “The Key” firmware with custom configuration
I picked up the Stack Overflow “The Key and it ships with pretty lame default settings (gimmick settings) ctrl key, c key and v key. Since its a macropad we...
Adding Teaser Images and Favicons
Welcome to Day 9 of 100, I’m going to show how to add a favicon (which is the browser tab icon) and a teaser image, which is a small image related to a spec...
Add show_date to Minimal Mistakes Theme
Out of the box Minimal Mistakes theme does not show the date on posts, just the read time. I want to add that functionality to my blog and luckily I found s...
Adding Analytics Tags to a Jekyll Blog
Hi, welcome to day 7/100 days of code. Today I’m going to walk through adding Google Analytics and Bing Webmaster Tools Analytics to this blog. As always y...
Push local repository to GitHub using Git
Welcome to day 6/100 days of code, today I’m going to push my local repo up to GitHub using Git on the Command Line.
Site Setup and Jekyll theme configuration
Welcome to day 5 of my 100 days of code journey. Last time, I cloned a jekyll theme, spun up a docker container to serve the files and did some light cleanu...
Docker Compose and Jekyll
Now that I’ve got some material, I want to setup a Jekyll container to display my content locally and tweak the theme and settings before I fire it off into ...
New-Blogpost - Upgrading a PowerShell function to add parameters
In my previous post I created a basic PowerShell function that creates a folder with the current date. Today I’m going to add a small bit of functionality t...
New-Blogpost - Creating a basic PowerShell function
I wanted to make a quick powershell function to create a blogpost folder and file structure. I’m planning to use jekyll to host this and the way jekyll work...
Hello World! Create a blog using VSCode and Markdown
Hi, my name is Nick and this is my #100DaysOfCode day 1 blog post. I’ve been inspired by the 100 Days of Code Challenge and wanted to use this as an opportu...