Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is a Lead DevTools Engineer for RapidAPI on an independent contractor basis and has launched his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
November 28, 2022
For years I have been using Disqus on my blog, and for a long time, I have been looking for a good alternative that would fit into the daily tools. Another reason why I wanted to move away from Disqus is because of their tracking and ads. A long time ago, I looked at utterances, a commenting system based on GitHub issues.
Read moreNovember 23, 2022
For a migration from Disqus over to GitHub Discussions, I created a script that processes all comments and replies. One thing I noticed is that I quickly reached the rate limit with my personal access token, which prevents me from using GitHub for a while. I decided to use a GitHub App to overcome the issue of locking out my account.
Read moreNovember 14, 2022
Over the weekend, I received a couple of emails I was running out of GitHub Codespaces storage. My limit is 20GB, but more interesting is that I rarely use codespaces. GitHub Codespaces storage usage The last time I used Codespaces was about a year ago, but I couldn’t remember which repository it was.
Read moreOctober 26, 2022
Last week, all of a sudden, my Azure subscription got suspended. As the subscription runs on credits and is optimized to be way below the limit, I was surprised to see that I suddenly reached the spending limit. Usually, the monthly cost for the subscription is around 50-60 EUR. This month, it suddenly got above 150 EUR, but why?
Read moreOctober 18, 2022
Let us go back to the end of 2020. My wife and I were chatting in the kitchen about buying a new car. One of the criteria of my wife the vehicle should have was to have seven seats as it would be easier to bring kids to tennis. I wanted to go for a fully electric car.
Read moreOctober 6, 2022
In Visual Studio Code extension webviews you probably need to get familiar with post-messaging communication. This post-messaging communication is used when you want to start a process, request information, etc. For this communication flow to work, the extension and webview can send and listen to incoming messages. Although this is not a complicated flow to understand, it quickly feels like a disconnected communication flow, as you cannot simply wait for a response.
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