Hello, I'm   Jason

While porting old posts over to Markdown, I came across a post from May 18th, 2008. The post contained a link to a futuristic Microsoft Home detailing some of what we may find in our homes in 2015. The article starts off by mentioning many of Hollywood’s perceived futuristic features:

I’ve been slowly adding small features and tweaks to my site. Eventually I’ll add this as a meta component for the SpaacedOut theme, but for now I’ve added the minutes to read a post to my website and pushed some of the other content (such as tags and the page edit link) to the bottom of the post. I want to get content higher in the fold.

To all the men and women who have served our country through crisis, including assisting during the COVID-19 pandemic, we salute you!

The past few days I’ve had a hardware theme. I’m going to stick with the theme with this latest post. COVID-19 has surely inspired me to clean out my office and straighten things up. I came across so many old DVDs, CDs, and even floppy disks. I’d check each and if the files were worth saving, I’d copy them to my cloud storage, which happens to be OneDrive, and then toss the storage medium. I came across a bunch of 3.5” floppy disks that I wasn’t sure what they contained. Since I was intrigued, I decided to see if I could find a USB floppy disk drive. Sure enough, Amazon had one that was supported on Windows 10:

One of the tasks I had while being in quarantine was to recover my aunt’s hard drive. My old docking station, which was an original USB dock, would not support SATA drives. Rather, it was SCSI only. So, I headed out to Amazon to find something that would satisfy the need. I came across a USB-C and USB 3 Cable Matters SATA docking station for both 2.5 and 3.5 inch drives.

The kids have had to stay home since mid-March due to COVID-19. Each of them had their own machine to do work. The boys were taking turns sharing an old Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 that was 6 years old. As I prepared the laptop for its initial use, I noticed that the battery wasn’t taking a charge. Looking at the Lenovo site, most of the parts could no longer be found. Sure I could get a used battery off of eBay, but I began searching Amazon. I found a compatible L12M4P21 laptop battery on Amazon:

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.

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.

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

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.