I recently found out that there is a built-in JWT decoder in Visual Studio's Text Visualizer. This made my life just a bit easier when debugging token issues this past week - instead of copying out the string and dropping it onto a third party site like jwt.io, I could see the token's values right in Visual Studio.

I'm working on updating packages on multiple projects to eliminate vulnerable nuget packages. We have been doing this on a recurring basis for some time, but I recently got a script built to do better searches across transitive dependencies in all projects under a given path. And... it's exposed quite a few more packages that need to be updated. The basic command I'm using to identify vulnerable packages is dotnet list package --vulnerable --include-transitive.

Several years ago, I experimented with building SVG files based on a repeating pattern. The basic idea was to take a drawn line pattern and repeat it, creating closed shapes. Each shape's color was varied - tint, shade, or color difference. I ended up building a tool to do this, and used it to create the background image on the Resumation login page:

I took a few minutes today to get an atom feed set up on the blog. It was fairly straightforward, though I had a bit of work to do to properly configure the feed filters. I figured I would document what I did here in case it's helpful.

Since I'm using VuePress, I grabbed the VuePress feed plugin. Installation was straightforward.

I've updated the site with new colors, updated some styling, and introduced custom colors on the tags and categories. I ended up cribbing pretty heavily off of Material Design chips for the tags and categories - don't break what works, I suppose.

It's nice working in a Vue environment, so I can focus on making what I want happen instead of learning how XYZ framework should be hooked together.

I recently found Anders Hoff's site and read through his posts on generative art. I particularly like the cursive-like line art he generated (he calls them Sand Creatures) - something about the randomness of the objects is very enticing.

Well, I've finally gone and gotten a blog stood up. I've been thinking about doing this for some time, but it's never been enough of a priority. I did see that David Jarman got his up as a learning exercise, and that was really the impeteus I needed to get going.