One of the Android apps that I have made uses a backend that needs to be fed with data on a weekly basis. I decided to keep my scrapers running locally on my laptop in the past, but not anymore since manageability and scheduling was an issue. I have finally prepared this process to be run semi-autom…
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Introduction Programmatically sending SMS messages is easier than ever before. Companies like Nexmo and Twilio have been providing businesses with communication APIs that are so easy to implement in your current software that even the lowest skilled developers can work with it. The big disadvantage…
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If you are planning to create certain audio-related automation tasks in PowerShell, you might come to the conclusion that there are not many ready to use cmdlets available. Luckily, there are some smart ways to work around that. Since PowerShell is capable to load and work with .NET assemblies, I de…
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In my previous article I demonstrated my dotnet core Spotify authentication 'gateway'. With your access and refresh tokens available, it is time to actually use them: for that, you need a client. You could choose to send raw API requests out to Spotify, but for the sake of 'why not?' I have created…
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Need to reinstall Windows, but don't want to go through the hassle of getting all the needed drivers onto your new Windows installation? There's an easier way to work around that by using PowerShell! Just two cmdlets Get-WindowsDriver and Export-WindowsDriver are needed for this operation. Obtaining…
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PowerShell Credentials are very useful in the world of system administration. Passwords stored in a PSCredential object are encrypted by a key, so that means you can't just pipe a PSCredential into Export-Clixml to export your credentials because the key is stored in memory for the current user on t…
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