Jason N. Gaylord
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I live with my family in the rolling hills of Northeastern Pennsylvania. I'm a web developer by trade, but have broad experience in various business areas. Want to know more about me?

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Copy to Clipboard using JavaScript

As browsers have evolved over the years, security has tightened and the ability to perform certain actions has changed. Browsers have long supported a new, standard API, called ClipboardEvent. However, most browsers did not widely support Clipboard until mid 2019. Up to that point, you’d most likely use jQuery, a JavaScript framework that included clipboard functionality, or clipboard.js.

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Using the 'Copy as Markdown' Browser Extension

I’ve been using the Copy as Markdown browser extension quite a bit lately. It’s great I’m trying to capture existing website pages and convert them to Markdown. While it was meant just to copy single links or images as Markdown, It has really been expanded to copy entire content pages as Markdown. It handles nearly all of the common text formatting such as italic, bold, strikethrough, and inline code. It also handles code blocks, ordered and unordered lists, headings, links and images. It also claims to have table support, but I’ve had issues with it working properly.

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Announcing Azure Static Web Apps

Announced today at Microsoft Build is a new service called Azure Static Web Apps.

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RESOLVED: Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer Copy URL Issue

On Friday, I had blogged about how Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer had an issue with the Copy URL functionality. I found out late last night that this has been resolved in version 1.13.1 which is available immediately by visiting https://github.com/microsoft/AzureStorageExplorer/releases and will be propagated to the Windows Update servers within the next 12-24 hours.

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Scheduling GitHub Pages Posts for Future Dates - Part 2

Last week I had shared how to use future dates and Travis-CI to schedule posts for a date in the future. You can read that post by visiting https://jasong.us/2Aqnx9h. One thing I did not cover in that post is that you can schedule posts for a specific time (and timezone).

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Use GitHub Actions to Deploy Jekyll 4 to GitHub Pages

Back on May 9th, I posted about a limitation with GitHub Pages. As of that time, I was unaware of an effort, first documented on April 27th, to use GitHub Actions to deploy a Jekyll site to GitHub Pages. After looking into this more, this will allow you to use Jekyll 4, some of the Jekyll 4 enhancements and even include unsupported Jekyll plugins. Be sure to check it out.

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Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer Copy URL Issue

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer recently updated to version 1.13.0 and updated AzCopy to 10.4.2. With this update, a bug was introduced inadvertently with a change within the client SDK for Azure. Essentially, when copying a file, instead of:

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TechBash 2020 Call for Speakers ends tonight!

The Call for Speakers for TechBash 2020 ends tonight. TechBash is an event geared towards web and software development, DevOps, and cloud technologies. We continue to feature speakers from a very diverse skillset and background. To submit for the event, you can visit the link over at Sessionize by visiting https://jasong.us/tb20cfp.

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I'm Hiring at biBERK

I’m hiring! I’m currently looking to fill a variety of roles as our organization continues to expand. I’ve placed a few highlights under each of the positions below. Please review the general descriptions and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me, or apply and ask our Human Resource team. Hope to see you soon!

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SpaacedOut 1.0.2 Gem Pushed to RubyGems.org

Earlier tonight I pushed a minor updated to the SpaacedOut Jekyll theme to the Ruby Gems repository. This update has a minor change in the pagination and fixed the tag page links. You can grab a copy of the gem by visiting https://rubygems.org/gems/spaacedout.

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