I have been writing a lot of tests lately with Cypress, and one thing that I noticed when running over night using a scheduled task is that they really slow down the whole server performance as it's taking huge amount of CPU and RAM. Kind of expected as Cypress is…
Every time I buy a new laptop/Desktop or if I want to do a full disk wipe cleanup or else setup a VM, the worst part for me was always the wasted time looking for all the applications I needed to install/reinstall. I had to open many website,…
The other day I was looking for a way to get the executable path of a given software, so I thought it would be nice to have a script which would do it for me. While I was there I also added an option to create a quick desktop shortcut…
I have seen plenty of blog posts explaining how to do this with C# but none using Powershell. There isn't a big difference to be honest, but it's a small nice script to send automated emails if you are a system administrator. Of course, this could be improved but I…
Since at work we use windows systems, I had to go through the path of Powershell for system automation, and while I hated it at first, my interest slowly grown when I realized I could use .NET modules such as emails and others without having to reinvent the wheel, so…
Almost a year ago, I did setup Proxmox on an old gaming machine with 8 CPU and 16 Gb of ram. I wish I knew earlier about Proxmox as is such a great tool that anyone doing a bit of self-hosting should consider using. I am not going to explain…
Where I work we use Visual Studio as IDE to run our main app that compile the Visual Studio solution .sln and the IIS Sever. Since I never liked Visual Studio as it's an heavy and bloated IDE, with many things that I will never use, I wanted to to…
Disclaimer: Most of the scripts I am presenting in this post is a collection that I made searching the web. AutoHotkey (AHK) is a scripting language that allow us to automate our daily tasks, create macros and much more. The benefits of automation in a computing world is such a…
