snipv: paste text snippets anywhere with a global hotkey

snipv is a small Windows tray app that lets you save a snippet (e.g. a phone number, an address, a canned reply) and record a keyboard shortcut for it. From then on, pressing that shortcut in any application pastes the text at the cursor. The part that took the most work was deciding which shortcutsContinue reading “snipv: paste text snippets anywhere with a global hotkey”

.NET MAUI – app to add expenses quickly

I recently created an application in .NET MAUI that is now available for download. I made it for myself to be able to add costs in a very fast way. I will probably add some functionalities, improve the appearance and possible bugs. Feel free to use. Link to Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.companyname.fastcost Screenshots: Some short vids:

.NET MAUI – fix ‘failed processing manifest’ AndroidManifest.xml

The .NET MAUI application. I had the following errors when launch the application: Error APT2067: failed processing manifest. 0 Error APT2260: resource mipmap/appicon (aka com.companyname.fastcost:mipmap/appicon) not found. This error is likely caused by an issue with the AndroidManifest.xml file or an Android manifest generation attribute in a source code file. 0 Error APT2260: resource mipmap/appicon_roundContinue reading “.NET MAUI – fix ‘failed processing manifest’ AndroidManifest.xml”

Using the OpenAI API in a C# console application

Repo: https://github.com/kaajoj/OpenAIApp To run it, you need to provide your own API key. Sample code with request to generate new image: https://github.com/kaajoj/OpenAIApp/blob/cc1881a985365683c90484e9cb2dca7c1361b810/OpenAIApp/OpenAI.cs#L52 Sample results of image generation: Big dogs flying a plane to Mars Dogs like top gun

Truffle test – ReferenceError: accounts is not defined

When you run command ‘truffle test’ and get error:“ReferenceError: accounts is not defined” To fix this, use below code line:contract(“Contract”, async (accounts) => {} and put test code between brackets e.g.:

Create new ERC20 token – smart contract

Sample smart contract to create your own token: The same code, but with a hard-coded name, symbol and initial supply: Sources:https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/erc20https://solidity-by-example.org/app/erc20/https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/v4.0.0/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol

Mock IConfigurate in xUnit

If you want mock IConfiguration use following code: or copy secrets.json configuration file to output directory: projectName\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1 and then use following code in ContextFixture: Config json file e.g. secrets.json: