Code - Chris Kirby

image of an assembly line, where pi-hole is going in and ad guard is coming out, so simulate conversion

Homelab

Migrating from Pi-hole to AdGuard home, with some upgrades along the way

I'll walk you through quickly migrating your Pi-hole configuration, including ad lists, whitelists, and custom DNS, to AdGuard home. Improving performance along with enabling TLS encryption, DoH, DOT, and deployment to Kubernetes

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Homelab

Automate your Unifi network firewall and traffic rules with Home Assistant

Harness the potential of Unifi network traffic rules for your home network by integrating them with Home Assistant. Let's dive in and unlock!

Artificial Intelligence

Run a free AI coding assistant locally with VS Code

Wouldn't it be awesome to use a local LLM as your personal AI assistant on the daily, subscription-free, completely offline, and even in VS Code? Type "y" to continue.

Docker

Using Ngrok through Docker for local service development on Mac

Corporate policy restrictions got you down? Me too! I've struggled to find a reliable solution for local Slack, Github, or cloud development when Ngrok, the most commonly used tool for exposing services locally, is restricted by either a local execution policy or via OpenDNS (or similar)

Azure

Connecting the Enterprise with Azure Event Grid and Serilog

In all companies, large and small, there is no One app to rule them all. The reality is that there are often dozens, sometimes hundreds, of apps/services/tools/etc that we use to help ourselves or to provide services to our clients.

DevOps

Working with the Azure Storage REST API in automated testing

Testing! Every developer's favorite topic :). For me, if I can save time through automation, then I'm interested. Automated testing for a developer typically starts with unit tests, which, even if you don't subscribe to TDD, you've written at least one of them

Slack

Fun with Slack Commands using Azure API and Function Apps

In this example, I'm using an Azure API app with Easy APIs enabled (formerly mobile services...but better) and the preview version of the Azure Function app.

Code

Quick Tip: Alias Hub as Git on Windows

If you use Git with GitHub, the Hub wrapper utility by GitHub is a better CLI option for working with your personal and org repositories.

Azure

Running your Azure WebJobs with the Kudu API

I have a love-hate relationship with the Azure portals. Some days it's fast and lets me do exactly what I want; other days, like today, I want more control over how my stuff runs.

Code

Migrate an existing repository from Subversion to Git on Windows with history intact

To continue my quest of converting from CVCS to git, I figured I would do a short write-up on my recent experience with converting from Subversion in a Windows environment.

Reviews

Essential Windows dev tools for the new year

First things first, it all starts with the package manager. It's the best, and I feel the only, way to maintain software on any machine you deal with.

Azure

Deploy your WebJobs projects with your Azure website using continuous delivery

After sifting through posts, docs, and Stack Overflow, I finally set this up using the same MSBuild process I'm using for Continuous Deployment today.

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