Cool Tricks

1. Controlling an IKEA LED strip with video capture from game consoles

   Finally... Home Assistant gaming.

2. Using UWP Update Tasks in a MSIX-packaged Win32 app

   it's friday night and i'm deep in msix hell again

3. An approach to data binding with .NET in an iOS app

   Key-Value Observer on Timeless Temple

4. Using System XAML Islands in a MSIX-packaged .NET Framework app

   MUX, WUX... more like FUX this shit eyy gotem

5. Monkey Trick: Use ResX localization in a Xamarin Mac/iOS app with Interface Builder

   I have to get those monkey puns out before Microsoft fully gets rid of the Xamarin name.

6. Running cool-retro-term in Windows through WSL2 and WSLg

   Javascript terminal emulators still have nothing on this.

7. Apply Mica to a WPF app on Windows 11

   I don't need no Windows.UI.Composition.

8. Hacking your way around both Homebrew and macOS to use libarchive

   I also learned more about how to build a Perl module than I actually wanted to.

9. Deploying an ephemeral macOS environment through Github Actions

   I don't think they meant this when they said "Think Different".

10. Webscraping my bank with GitHub Actions and displaying it on a Pebble SmartWatch

    Giving my bank account to GitHub so they can tell my watch how much money is in it? Sure!

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