Author: jcianci12
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How to Run Your ASP.NET MVC App from VS Code by Pressing F5 (Yes, Even the Old .NET Framework Ones)
I spend most of my day in Visual Studio Code. It is fast, it is light, and it does not chew through 6GB of RAM just sitting there. But there is one thing that always tripped me up — getting an older ASP.NET MVC project running with a single keystroke. Pressing F5 in VS Code…
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Quick fix commands for killing a left over .net core process that is hogging the port.
1. Find what’s on the port 2. Kill it by PID (replace ##### with the PID from step 1) Or do it all in one line (find + kill):
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Brisbane Half Marathon Weekend Budget (Family of 4)
Dates: Friday 5 June 2026 to Monday 8 June 2026People: 2 Adults, 2 Children (10 & 15) Food & Drinks Item Cost Vapiano $57.97 Ahmet’s Turkish $40.27 Gamdang Korean $65.99 San Churro $27.45 Sushi Edo $82.78 Yo-Chi $12.06 Fashion Café $58.61 Woolworths $27.55 BWS $15.00 Fixx Nutrition $5.50 McDonald’s $4.80 Hungry Jacks $22.25 Twisted Tasty…
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My Stay at Cassa Wharf Street Apartments for the Brisbane Half Marathon
When I booked a three-night stay at Cassa Wharf Street Apartments for the Brisbane Half Marathon, I thought I had found the perfect place. The location was excellent, the apartment looked modern and clean, and after running 21.1 kilometres on race day I was already looking forward to relaxing in the hot tubs and making…
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E2E Tests; A handy little JS tool
Sometimes when creating e2e tests, and this becomes even more important as we move into the world of AI, there is a gap between actual user experience and what the AI sees. Recently I had an issue where I was creating tests with help from AI. The test needed to prove some new functionality. A…
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How We Set Up OpenCode to Be Actually Useful — A Practical Guide
We have been trying out OpenCode, a terminal-based AI coding assistant, across a few different projects — .NET web apps, Docker Compose stacks, and some embedded firmware work. Out of the box, it works. But the difference between the default experience and a tuned setup is night and day. This article covers the settings, tweaks,…
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The Mandalorian and Grogu Review — A Regular Guy’s Take 7.5/10
I looked at a few reviews before seeing Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, and it looks like Rotten Tomatoes has it sitting around 62–63%. Honestly, I thought it was better than that. For me, it landed somewhere around a 7 or 8 out of 10. The biggest thing it did well was simple: it…
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Solar Hot Water Diversion with Home Assistant and Shelly: A Debugging Story
We set up a Home Assistant automation to divert excess solar power to a hot water system using a Shelly Pro 1PM relay. The concept was simple: when the solar system is exporting more than a threshold, turn the hot water on. When there is not enough export, turn it off. The automation ran every…
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Docker Desktop Ate 60GB on Windows: The WSL VHDX Problem and How We Fixed It
Published by TekOnlineDate: 20 May 2026 Docker Desktop on Windows is convenient, especially with the WSL 2 backend. It is also very easy for it to quietly consume a lot of disk space. Recently, we hit a familiar problem: Docker looked like it had tens of gigabytes of unused data, but even after pruning images…
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How to Give a Hyper-V Ubuntu VM Internet Using an iPhone USB Tether
Sometimes you have a virtual machine that needs internet, but the normal network is blocked or unavailable. In my case, I had an Ubuntu 22.04 VM running in Hyper-V on a Windows work machine. The VM needed internet access, but it could not get online through the usual network. I also had an iPhone with…