Hello, I'm   Jason

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.

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).

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.

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:

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.