Declaration of VAR

Telegram bot

On the 24th of June 2015 Telegram got bots, or, to be specific, Telegram Bot API. So, now my other problem about receiving server status can be solved much easier.

Initially I wrote this article in russian 🇷🇺, but having noticed that it’s one of the most visited pages in my blog, I decided to translate it to english.

VirtualBox on Mac OS with a fullscreen Linux-guest

In this article I’ll try to get into all (okay, maybe not all) possible troubles related to using a VirtualBox guest-machine with Linux, running on a Mac OS (High Sierra, 10.13) host. But actually it’s not about Mac OS and all the steps will be the same for Windows and Linux hosts too. But anyway.

The aim is to get a Linux guest-machine running in a fullscreen mode on a dedicated desktop (screen) with a decent performance.

OpenSearch in your .NET Core MVC project

OpenSearch is a way to add/integrate your website’s search engine to web-browsers. And here’s how to do such a thing with your .NET Core MVC project website.

Death Note 2017

Бря, хана Ведьмаку.

How to add reCAPTCHA to your .NET Core MVC project

If you have some views with inputs exposed to public access, especially if they are served via controller with [AllowAnonymous], then you most probably would like to add CAPTCHA to those views. Otherwise, you risk to get flooded with automated spam.

I decided to use reCAPTCHA from Google.

Ulysses has switched to subscription

As you might already know, Ulysses has switched to a subscription model. Here’s also their post on Medium.

You can host a .NET Core MVC app on Linux

Ya, rly.

VirtualBox port forwarding

A Windows host runs a VirtualBox guest Linux machine. And you want to connect to this Linux guest machine via SSH from your other PC (or Mac) remotely:

Mac OS service to ZIP a folder

Mac OS has integrated Archive Utility for packing files and folders into archives. It works fine, but what I don’t like about it, is that it packs not only files and folders I want to pack, but also hidden system stuff like __MACOSX folders and .DS_Store files. You can use some 3rd-party archiver instead (Keka is a very good one) that provides the possibility to exclude such files, but this is also possible to achieve with the integrated ZIP utility.

Bose QuietComfort 35

Having broken my N-th pair of Koss Porta Pro headphones, I considered the amount of money spent on them and realized that it would have been wiser to invest this amount into something that lasts longer. The problem was to find something that sounds as good as Koss Porta Pro.